Considering Quickflix has embraced online movie rentals, it would be great to see the Aussie service come to the Boxee Box.įor now in Australia you’ve got access to range of TV shows, listed under Most Popular, from ABC’s iView, Seven’s Plus7 and Fairfax’s SMH.TV. I’m told it’s on the road map and it would go a long way to improving the Boxee Box’s value proposition compared to something like the much cheaper Apple TV. Access to a local movie rental service would make the Boxee Box a dream device for many people. You can forget about Netflix movie rentals unless you subscribe to a US-based VPN and have access to a US credit card. These are links to various content sources, mainly video but there’s also an RSS reader, weather app, Flickr and TuneIn radio.Īs with most streaming media players, the Boxee Box has one arm tied behind its back in Australia. The Boxee Box’s big selling point is that it also lets you stream online video from a wide range of sources, with the ability to add “Apps”. This is quite an impressive spread of features and, while I'm concerned about those occasional DVD menu quirks, it could perhaps knock off the WD TV Live as my streaming media player of choice. The Boxee Box also plays ripped Blu-ray files, plus it handles Windows Media Centre digital television recordings - both Vista (DVR-MS) and Windows 7 (WTV). It tends to come good if you wait for a minute but, if you strike menus which won’t work, you would be able to click play. I like that the Boxee Box treats ISO and VOB files as a physical DVD, but it occasionally it struggles to display the menus on VOB files or let you navigate them.
It only choked on the 1080p DivX 3.1 file, but other files were fine.
The mix included low-res files right up to 720p and 1080i/p. It has little trouble with the DivXTestCD2.0, which includes MPEG1/2/4 (ASP & AVC), DivX, XviD, MKV and Windows Media Video files.
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Root is fine, but what the Boxee Box really needs is an update to its media player. The second is a far more elegant hardware modification that involves cutting two traces and soldering wires to a UART adapter.
The first is a software root method that runs a shell script on every boot. Last year at DEFCON 20, demonstrated two ways to get root on the original Boxee Box. Here’s a few hacks to get your Boxee Box up and running again, sent in by. Team Boxee recently left for Samsung, and the severs have been shut down, but that doesn’t mean your Boxee Box has outlived its usefulness.
Even though it was somewhat crippled from the get-go, the Boxee Box had a lot of neat features including a remote with a QWERTY keyboard, the ability to stream media over a home network, and automatic scraping of IMDB for proper info for all your torrented media. When it was released just three years ago, the Boxee Box – a set-top box designed to run the Boxee HTPC environment – was a pretty cool little device.