Boxee tv dvr review8/22/2023 ![]() “This upgrade, makes using Boxee even easier and more intuitive”, Andrew Kippen, marketing VP at Boxee tells us. Plug in the Boxee Box, connect it to your TV, look for your wireless network, punch in your network password which is made easier by the remote control, and you’re off. The software has taken a drastic change to the user interface you’ve probably seen on various “reviews”, photos, and previews over the last 11 months. Audio gives you MP3, WAV/PCM/lPCM, WMA, AIF/AIFF, AC3/AAC, OGG, FLAC and Dolby Digital/Dolby True HD. Image formats include JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF. On the resolution front you’ll get full 1080p, and all the resolutions up to that to support your TV and a host of audio formats like Dolby.Īs for formats supported on the media front it includes: FLV/On2 VP6 (FlV/F4V/M4V), H.264 aVC (TS/AVi/MKV/MOV/M2TS/ MP4), VC-1 (TS/AVI/MKV/WMV), MPEG-1 (DAT/MPG/MPEG), MPEG-2 (MPG/MPEG/VOB/TS/TP/ISO/IFO), MPEG-4 (MP4/AVI/MOV), DivX 3/4/5/6 (AVI/MKV), Xvid (AVI/MKV), WMV9 (WMV/ASF/DVR-MS). Boxee offers a dedicated iPhone app, while iPad users are serviced via a number of third party offerings including the very good Rowmote. Pairing is quick and simple allowing you button or gesture control, but the overall experience is lacking slightly with you having to finger the cursor across the screen multiple times like a bad mouse on a small mouse pad. IPhone or iPad owners can turn their device into a Boxee remote as long as it's on the same network. The keys are rubbery, but well spaced out and comfortable to use, and within the button layout are four arrow keys for navigation so you don’t have to keep turning the remote over to navigate around the screen. ![]() The upside of that QWERTY keyboard is that searching for content and password entry is very easy. On the front it’s incredibly simple with a d-pad, a menu button (that doubles as a back button), and a play/pause button.įlip the remote over and you’re presented with a 40-button QWERTY keyboard over four rows. This is HDMI and HDMI only, but that HDMI cable (included in the box) does carry the audio stream too. The device runs near silently (there is some noise) powered by an Intel Atom processor that is good enough for the job, but not enough to make everything super fast.Ĭome to the remote, and rather than a cheap-looking off-the-shelf OEM offering, Boxee has taken a dual approach. Ports include Ethernet, HDMI, optical, stereo audio out and two USB sockets. It’s a combination of matt and gloss black and bright lime green to accentuate the design, complete with a glowing logo on the front. There is an SD card reader on the side and connections for your TV around the back. Still, the Boxee Cloud DVR is different from many of the other set-top boxes we've recently tested, including the new Roku 3 and Google TV media players from Sony and Vizio.Put simply Boxee Box is a media streamer that lets you play any content you have locally on a USB drive, network or SD card, or alternatively stream content directly from the net and services like YouTube, BBC’s iPlayer or Channel 5’s On Demand service to name but a few. Rather than designed to be hidden in amongst the clutter that resides in your TV stand, the Boxee Box is a cube that looks like it's sinking into the surface you have it on. And the Boxee Cloud DVR service is still available only eight metro areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. For one, you can still record only a limited number of channels, including CBS, CW, Fox, Ion, NBC, PBS, and Univision. The other, $10 per month, gives you unlimited storage so you can keep recordings indefinitely, plus the ability to access them from portable devices.įor more, check our streaming services and movie rental buying guide and Ratings. One is a new free service that gives you 5 hours of storage per month and the ability to save recordings for up to 90 days. But the new name highlights another of its unique features: a virtual DVR that lets you record and save shows on the company's cloud-based servers. The box, which we covered when it was launched, still delivers free over-the air TV signals when paired with an antenna. Like Paul Hewson and Declan MacManus-Bono and Elvis Costello, respectively-Boxee is hoping there's some magic in a name change: The company is rebranding its Boxee TV media player as the Boxee Cloud DVR.
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