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- tennisbgc - 2010-10-07 snoopy78 Wrote:hi guys...http://www.imgburn.com/ to create a bd-iso. - CrashX - 2010-10-07 Found this on Boxee twitter:- @twoboxen LOTS of UI changes. Tuner in the plans, but not working on it, yet. - athloni - 2010-10-15 Next month D-Link is shipping BoXee Boxes in Europe. Is there more info if it is already possible to run XBMC on it? - everlong - 2010-10-19 Anyone been able to test this Boxee BOX, looks like it would be the best all-in-one mediaplayer! Would be perfect if you could choose between XBMC and Boxee running on it! - tennisbgc - 2010-10-19 everlong Wrote:Anyone been able to test this Boxee BOX, looks like it would be the best all-in-one mediaplayer! Would be perfect if you could choose between XBMC and Boxee running on it!there was a guy on this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=80665 that has one. Pass Thru Issues - FuguAndFries - 2010-10-20 snoopy78 Wrote:Hello, In researching the boxee box this morning, I came across this thread in the Boxee fora describing DTS-HD issues. There's a link in that thread to an open bugtracker item which says that DTS-HD is NOT currently supported/manifested by boxee (despite the chip being able to process it)... I'm confident that this will be resolved in the future, but I want assurance now...which is how I ended up at unimatrix1. Despite the menu options and chip spec's, would folks please keep an eye out for confirmation that a boxeebox running xbmc can pass through HDMI 1.4 era signals (DTS-HD and 3D)? Cheers! - Geeba - 2010-10-20 Does it run XBMC yet? - CrashX - 2010-10-21 Boxee Box will be released on November 10, 2010 ... http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/10/20/boxee-box-ships-on-nov-10th-rsvp-for-the-launch-event-in-nyc/ Alot of technical details here .. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1265799 - PrimaryMaster - 2010-10-21 poofyhairguy Wrote:I have one and I promise that it can play any x264 file you can throw at it. I have hundreds I have tried.... Have you tested installing XBMC on it? - poofyhairguy - 2010-10-21 PrimaryMaster Wrote:Have you tested installing XBMC on it? That comment was in reference to an ION box, not a Boxee box. Boxee Box comes to Germany - ringgh0st - 2010-10-22 http://www.channelpartner.de/produkteundtechnologien/297221/ The boxee box is now preorderable in germany. YEAH! http://www.cyberport.de/boxee http://www.amazon.de/gp/search/ref%3Dsr_kk_2?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aboxee+box&keywords=boxee+box&ie=UTF8&qid=1287673206 - Fantasma - 2010-10-22 Amazon now changed the Price to EUR 229,00 and i made my preorder. - Sylus - 2010-10-22 Well, you cannnot get such a box (or atom) for such a prive. However, in the case you can only use boxee, the money is somehow wasted. - defected07 - 2010-10-23 Speaking of ION boxes, this is pretty nice: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119016 Foxconn NT-330i - $199, just add memory and HDD. - Hannes The Hun - 2010-10-23 defected07, we already have a thread about this netbox. I use this exact device as an HTPC (XBMCbuntu) and love it, but as you mentioned you have to add RAM, HDD, and a remote solution, so the price is somewhat relativised, esp. if you want to go the full route and add a small SSD as I did. also keep in mind that these Ion boxes seldom work out-of-the-box even with newest XBMClive builds so you need at least a bit of understanding with linux. boxee is some kind of instant-on XBMC experience, but we'll have to see how it works out when the first customers get their boxes. I still don't like the whole social networking stuff, and I absolutely like to have full customizable control over my XBMC experience. also in the meantime there's some serious competition going on in this media box business, esp. given the fact that Google TV goes to market at the same time and might have similar playback capabilities, at least when there's an app for that (and it might well be an XBMC port *winkwink*) I wish these guys all the luck in the world, but they're a littlebit late on the market, given the problems with the tegra2 chipset and the complete hardware switch to the intel CE4100. and speaking from a (german) customer perspective, the magic border is 199€ for such a device. 229 might already be too much for a lot of customers, given that similar (more simple, granted) realtek- or sigma-based players retail for starting around 100€. finally, the advantage of having a fully connected device with library mode and all the additional features is not obvious to joe average. |