It makes taking a huge collection of movies with you easy, and doubles as a USB HDD when connected directly to a PC as well as working with NAS via a Samba share folder. I have the M-6600A with WiFi N (also has a 10/100base t ethernet port if you have a wired network port by your TV) support and a 1TB HDD. My TViX box works quite well maintaining aspect ratio on my HDTV. Sorry for the rant, hoping the Boxee Box review will let me know if I can finally retire my aging but playback-perfection ZoomPlayer/Firefly remote/HTPC case solution. If playback devices know a few caveats, why don't they understand the simplicity of "Force full frame" as a scaling option? It's funny, the PS3 knows to frame 352x240 MPEG1 (VCD) and 720x480 MPEG2 (DVD) at 4:3 but an AVI or MP4 at the same resolution gets stretched. I need to say take a 352x258 source and knowing it should be framed full 4:3 select that option. If I was on a 4:3 display the fill option would work, but I haven't used a display of that kind this millennia.
Most of these devices offer the same options as the PS3 (which with its Blu-Ray player is so close to being a great all-around video playback device): original pixel size, optimal (scaled to fit height or width proportionately), zoom (for those pesky 4:3 letterboxed sources) and fill (stretch without regard to aspect ratio). For those that might not ge sure whet I mean by force-framing, it means I know the video is 4:3 but for some reason the pixel dimensions don't match, so I want to force scaling onto my 16:9 display to be pillar boxed with the image scaled appropriately. Owning all the consoles and a smattering of these "streaming" devices I have yet to find one that takes aspect ratio into account with the same zeal as codec support. When you guys do your review, could you please comment on video scaling options? It may not be qt the top of everybody's list, but for those of us with video collections that started to build last century the inability to force-frame video has made non-HTPC solutions "so close" failures. But the Boxee Box is just now beginning to make its way into consumers' AV cabinets, so it could become an issue later.Įxpect our full review of the Boxee Box soon. As yet, networks haven't attempted to do so with Boxee. Google recently made an attempt to shore up support for its Google TV platform, which has found itself in a struggle as major networks have moved to block Google TV devices from accessing their Web-based content. Hulu Plus will, for the first time, give Boxee officially sanctioned support for Hulu content. It has been expanding the service ever since, most recently to Sony Bravia HDTVs and is coming soon to Roku. Hulu launched its Hulu Plus service earlier this year to free that content from the browser and bring it to HDTVs, set-top boxes, and mobile devices. But Hulu has worked to block software like Boxee from accessing its content due to demand from its content partners. There is still some unofficial support for Hulu, and the Boxee Box includes a full WebKit-based browser for viewing standard Web content. Advertisementīoxee has had an off-again, on-again, off-again relationship with Hulu ever since the software first gained support for displaying Hulu content. Boxee is working to bring Hulu Plus to the device as well, though no specific timeframe has been given. Boxee's Andrew Kippen said that Netflix support should be ready by the end of this year, taking away one advantage of the Apple TV and Roku players. Two of the most popular subscription-based services, Netflix and Hulu Plus, will shortly be joining in the Boxee Box fun. The device can also access content from a local network or storage device saved in almost any popular codec.
The Boxee software uses an app plug-in architecture to add additional content, much like Roku's "channels" system. It can also access video content on network websites, including those sites specifically built for a TV interface. Like Google TV, the Boxee Box can access a variety of online sources, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and VUDU. The device sells for $199, making it more expensive than Apple TV or Roku XD|S but still cheaper than Google TV options from Logitech or Sony. The Boxee Box hardware is built on the same Atom-based platform as Google TV, and runs Boxee's eponymous media center software. While the device is launching with an impressive array of access to online sources and compatibility with numerous codecs, the company also promised that Netflix and Hulu Plus support would be coming in the near future.
Boxee announced Thursday that its Boxee Box-a set-top box for streaming video content built in collaboration with D-Link-is on like Donkey Kong now available in 33 countries.
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