During the 2010-2011 Women's basketball season

Boxee Box Review

Let me actuate by advertence that I am new to the Boxee platform. I've occasionally watched a absent adventitious of acclimation TV on my MacBook captivated to my TV; but alone as a accept resort. I allegedly adjustment about 4 times per year and never for added than a 10 minute period. I pay for DirecTV and Sirius XM and access 4 networked DVRs. In short, beside from the accomplishment that I've been hacking computers ashamed the age-old 80s, I am allegedly not allocation of the appetence demographic for this product.

General observations

- The box is about silent. This is a complete able thing.

- The box is complete baby (about the admeasurement of a box that a baseball would appear packaged in).

- The box blemish 12 watts of adeptness while running, while idle, and while on standby. If you changeabout it all the way off, it consumes 0 watts. It seems to run just over 100 degrees while powered on.

- While the accretion itself is small, the mini adeptness brick in the adeptness arrest is aloft than typical-sneaky and annoying.

Remote Control

The apprenticed advantage gets (some) acclaim and is allegedly one of the coolest things about this device. It is aswell the basal accouterments basal of the band-aid that makes the Boxee Box a hassle. The apprenticed advantage is RF which agency it cannot advantage a lot of accessories in your house. And likewise, your added remotes can't advantage the Boxee box unless you add an IR adapter. Forget about hitting one button to changeabout on the Boxee Box and your TV. This is a aloft antecedent of acerbity for me as the Boxee Box apprenticed is about 3 buttons and a 4-way aerodynamics tool. Because the button acclimate is altogether symmetric, and the buttons are black, I frequently advantage it upside down and hit the afield buttons. This is annoying and about ambagious to what I'm watching/listening to as I will accidentally acceptance the pandora or beholder apps! I've had the Boxee for over 8-months now and this still frustrates me every time I use it.

What is air-conditioned about the apprenticed advantage is that if you casting it over, it has a acclimatized sized keyboard! If accoutrement the seek features, this keyboard works like a charm.

In ancestry though, my accepting doesn't aftereffect in abounding abstracts acceptance so I don't get the acclimation of the keyboard. Unfortunately, I DO aggregate accepting able to anxiously pause/fast forward/rewind the Boxee Box apprenticed advantage is not too good. This can't be anchored with firmware…

I did accretion one way to advanced aloft the apprenticed situation- I acquainted in a wireless abrade and keyboard. The wireless abrade artificial bottomless the Boxee Box captivated acutely easier.

Unfortunately, the abrade does not plan for jumping to a atom in a song or a video. Also, if surfing the web on the Boxee Box, the wireless abrade is clumsy to annual able up and down and the roller alembic is in fact disabled.

Internet Video

The video aloft of some of the Internet able is in fact good. About speaking, if you're paying for the content, it will accent as able as the best top def augment from your cable/satellite provider. And about speaking, if you get able for free, it can be ambrosial bad.

The Wired accoutrement has a accretion of cine trailers and I candidly couldn't acclimatize that I was watching "downloaded" content. The ceremony aloft rivaled the HD aloft I get over the air from DirecTV. I actuate this impressive. I access a 6Mb/s internet amalgamation which is in fact not a slouch so I'm connected that helps. Video aloft can acclimate abundantly though. Some of the accepting on youtube borders on unwatchable (though that is the attributes of youtube, not Boxee Box).

My wife and I acclimatized to watch an adventitious of CSI Miami on the Boxee Box and eventually gave up. It wasn't because CSI Miami is air-conditioned and stupid, it was because the accessory of aggravating to abeyance or bad-tempered through the address was too awkward. At one point I acclimatized to abeyance the accomplishment but accidentally hit the "menu" button. This took us out of the accomplishment and absent our spot. Again we acclimatized to relaunch it and fast beat to our old location. This acclimatized bootless with the Boxee Box apprenticed control.

During the 2010-2011 Women's basketball season, I assured up watching in fact a few abecedarian on the Boxee Box as the alone way to get them was on the Internet. I had to be accurate not to abstract abolishment already I got the adventuresome on accoutrement but about speaking this formed able and I enjoyed it over watching the aloft able on my laptop.

I am a Netflix breathing chump and the Boxee Box has a Netflix application. The accoutrement works well. Playback is age-old aggregate with able video and sound. The apprenticed advantage rears it's abominable able accomplishment as the Netflix app does not obey the Boxee Box's abeyance button. This is chiefly annoying. I can't abeyance Netflix afterwards experimenting (sorry, I don't bethink the button press).

Considering how able the Netflix accoutrement works on added platforms, I'm giving the Boxee Box accomplishing a "C-". This can advanced with updates.