D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380

D-Link DSM-380 Boxee Box HD Media Player

Plays lots of video formats, interface is pretty slick Rapidly forward only does 30 seconds at time. Iow, unusable.Couldn't even login on initial power on, had to flash firmware for that (networking was working but the software thought it wasn't.

D-Link Boxee Box

D-Link Boxee Box The Boxee Box arrives on the market after a long wait, and the streaming landscape it enters has changed dramatically since the box was first announced in late 2009.

D-Link Boxee Box

For years, hardcore media-streamer PC hacker tinkerer types have scoffed at Apple TV's limited feature set and built themselves Linux-based miniPCs that get a massive range of media formats to your TV at full 1080p.

D-Link Boxee Box

The recent revamp of the ￡99 Apple TV looked like the perfect media-streaming device – except Apple unforgivably forgot to permit enough content into its walled garden to make its box of delights worthwhile.

All other connections are on the back side and I really like the options that Boxee provides. Starting off, you have an HDMI port which will be the primary source of connection to your TV for almost everyone.

Boxee Box Review

Feeling stifled by the narrow scope set-top boxes like Apple TV, but not quite ready to start stuffing circuits into a box to build your own home theater PC? D-Link pushes forth an unlikely solution with the funky and curiously geometric Boxee Box, which promises the control and flexibility of a desktop program packed into a standalone box. While it somehow manages to fall a little short of both, plenty of digital entertainment gurus will still find plenty to like in its imperfect middle ground. Boxee is no more unique to the Boxee Box than Windows is to your Dell laptop. It’s just software, and Boxee has actually been distributing it for free on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X since 2008. A cult following ensued and D-Link picked it up for the Boxee Box in 2010, the first set-top box to use the software Boxee had been vetting on the desktop for years. Boxee’s basic goal is to play everything. Locally, that means everything from common DivX files to the rare and mysterious VOB (the only th...

Boxee Box is one of several devices on the market that allows you to enjoy the video and web content accessible via your home broadband connection on a more convenient screen, namely your TV.

D-Link Boxee Box

In the streamer spectrum, the D-Link Boxee Box is full-on brain surgery next to the Apple TV 's GCSE biology. In the streamer spectrum,the D-Link Boxee Box is full-on brain surgery next to the Apple TV's GCSE biology. That's not to put it down.

Boxee Box by D-Link review

The Boxee Box is somewhat like the Apple TV in that it lacks any onboard storage. However, it does have the distinct advantage of having two USB ports, so you can add external storage to the device should the need arise. As well as the USB ports there's an Ethernet connection and built-in WiFi.

D-Link Boxee Box review

The D-Link Boxee is a dedicated service for on-demand TV, but unlike Apple TV, it's open source, pulling together content from a range of content providers.