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Stutes posted:
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Jan 5, 2010 07:03
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Thank you.. Thank you God. I've been forced to switch to Comcast's HD-DVR since they stopped sending anything but local networks out over analog. I miss W7MC so much.
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Boxee Box officially announced, under $200quote:"D-Link's successful track record in bringing to market, award-winning digital home networking products, and its global marketing, distribution and channel sales capabilities made them a great fit for our first hardware vendor." stated Andrew Kippen, vice president of marketing for Boxee, "The Boxee Box by D-Link gives consumers what they want - an easy way to watch Internet or personal entertainment in their living rooms with a simple set-top box that costs under $200 and has no monthly fees."
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Regnevelc posted:I'll try this tonight. Didn't work. I am going to do the ubuntu min install and XBMC install. We'll see.
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Jan 5, 2010 19:16
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BorderPatrol posted:Boxee Box officially announced, under $200 This looks fantastic. I gotta figure out how to make this a WMC extender too!
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Jan 5, 2010 22:33
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Boxee Box remote. Yeah, it's got a QWERTY keyboard. Awesome. Click here for the full 1024x662 image.
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Boris the Blade posted:Boxee Box remote. Yeah, it's got a QWERTY keyboard. Awesome. Oh hell yea I think i'm ditching my mce computer for this. I think my parents are going to pick one up too so they can watch internet content.
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Looks like a nice machine. Too bad I can't stand the Boxee interface. Maybe it'll be hackable so I can put XBMC on it.
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That remote easily seals the deal for me against the other media players if I needed to get one and decide against a full on HTPC.
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I'm looking forward to comparing the Boxee Beta to XBMC tomorrow. I've switched from XBMC (older version) to W7MC (for BluRay/WMV support) but am considering XBMC/Boxee again since I don't need BluRay anymore and apparantly XBMC/Boxee now supports WMV/WMA-Pro9.
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The boxee remote really is ingenious. I see the list of codecs up there, are any of those 1080p content?
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I don't get all the hate for Boxee. I am a new user to both it and XBMC and in terms of just set up and go, no deep day-long customizations I can't see why Boxee isn't better. XBMC looks so bland and I have to spend days searching for whatever option I'm looking for.
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CubanMissile posted:That remote easily seals the deal for me against the other media players if I needed to get one and decide against a full on HTPC. They are also going to sell the remote separately (via @boxee on twitter) for use on other hardware running boxee (and maybe we can get it working on other media centers as well).
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Schmoli posted:They are also going to sell the remote separately (via @boxee on twitter) for use on other hardware running boxee (and maybe we can get it working on other media centers as well). Haven't had a chance to look at the specs, but it has to communicate to the computer in some fashion or another, and we'll be able to see those using EventGhost at the least. I wouldn't be surprised to see it officially supported in XBMC eventually as well. Edit: wow only six buttons on the front? That kind of sucks. With XBMC, I have to have a BACK button, a CLOSE button, a MENU button, an INFO button...their interface better be good enough to work around those kind of things. EC fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jan 6, 2010 |
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suddenlyissoon posted:I don't get all the hate for Boxee. I am a new user to both it and XBMC and in terms of just set up and go, no deep day-long customizations I can't see why Boxee isn't better. XBMC looks so bland and I have to spend days searching for whatever option I'm looking for. The default XBMC skin is bland. That's why you use something like Aeon or Alaska. Boxee and XBMC are about equal when it comes to time-to-customize. They'll perform the same out of box, and XBMC you can customize to recognize more of your media. What Boxee has going for it right now as opposed to XBMC: 1. Boxee Box which allows you to buy it and plug it in. 2. Already has native support for DXVA accel on Windows. 3. Netflix, Pandora and a few other plugins like that.
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Thermopyle posted:What Boxee has going for it right now as opposed to XBMC: What I don't understand is how the Boxee Box, which is supposedly running Linux, is able to get Netflix. I thought Netflix required Microsoft Silverlight, which, at least to my knowledge, does not exist for Linux.
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That remote looks sexy, but has nobody considered the implications of putting 30+ buttons on the part of the remote you have pressing against your hand?
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God, if only they didn't make the shape of the boxee box so drat retarded, it could be the prefect HTPC.
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Crackbone posted:That remote looks sexy, but has nobody considered the implications of putting 30+ buttons on the part of the remote you have pressing against your hand? Well I suppose it could disable itself it the keyboard is upside down, but I guess I can see plenty of problems with that too perhaps it'll need some sort of hinged case that you can snap closed when not using the kb. Now I'm imaging a remote in the style of a G1 style smartphone, where you can slide out the keyboard, that'd be really great! As for the next post, the shape is retarded, but I don't think that's a deal-breaker for me, as it'll go inside my media cabinet anyway.
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So I am looking for a little bit of help. I just got my XBMC system set up last night. Specs: Zotac 9300 itx board E5200 C2D 2 Gig Mem DVD Burner 500gig drive AVS Gear GP-IR01BK and this Logitech remote Harmony 670 Out of the box the AVS Media Center remote does most everything in XBMC, I can move around, select items, pause play etc. I was able to teach my Harmony those same commands, however I can't for the life of me figure out how to bring up the menu you would get if you right click on a item like something in a library to rename etc or how to get my remote to put my machine to sleep and then bring it back out. I tried looking at EventGhost but admit that I was somewhat lost as to what to do. I was hoping someone could lend some help there. Edit: I found some good info here http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=54466 and I was able to get my Harmony completely configured the way I wanted without much hassel. Also with the case I got things seem a bit louder than I would like. The case I got is this: APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX I am using the stock cooler for the processor and the power supply has a fan but that is all. Curious if there are any suggestions for that or if I should switch to a different case. I am not opposed to switching to a larger HTPC style of case I just would like something that is as close to whisper as possible with a power supply fan and stock E5200 cooler and will still take an itx board even if the case isn't itx. strikrr fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jan 7, 2010 |
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Schmoli posted:As for the next post, the shape is retarded, but I don't think that's a deal-breaker for me, as it'll go inside my media cabinet anyway. While I'll say the shape is a weird choice, the remote is RF. You'll be able to place it out of view and not have to worry about the controls being registered.
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suddenlyissoon posted:I don't get all the hate for Boxee. I am a new user to both it and XBMC and in terms of just set up and go, no deep day-long customizations I can't see why Boxee isn't better. XBMC looks so bland and I have to spend days searching for whatever option I'm looking for. Like someone else mentioned, the skins for XBMC really blow Boxee out of the water. I did use Boxee for awhile, as it was much friendlier in terms of initial setup than XBMC. But as soon as I wanted to take my HTPC to the next level, I found Boxee really lacking in terms of customization. In the interim, XBMC has also become much easier to setup (though it could use a wizard for new users). Also, I think Boxee hates me. I have it installed on my third machine now (all Windows), and things like Hulu, Netflix, even Apple Trailers never work.
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Has anybody compared the Boxee Beta (open beta starts today) to the latest XBMC (w/Confluence, etc)? I'm thinking about switching back to (either) of them from W7MC + MediaBrowser...
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Thermopyle posted:The default XBMC skin is bland. That's why you use something like Aeon or Alaska.
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suddenlyissoon posted:I don't get all the hate for Boxee. Boris the Blade posted:What I don't understand is how the Boxee Box, which is supposedly running Linux, is able to get Netflix. I thought Netflix required Microsoft Silverlight, which, at least to my knowledge, does not exist for Linux.
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suddenlyissoon posted:I did install Aeon but after spending close to an hour trying to customize it I stopped. Maybe I will like Alaska more. What kind of customization are y'all doing that involves so much time? The longest part of the process is scanning your media files and adding them to the library (which can be greatly simplified with something like Ember Media Manger) and even that isn't really that hard. Adding plugins is fairly simple, especially with the installer (although that should really come as part of the xbmc package). Skins are even easier. There's only about 20 or 30 customization options, and all of those are pretty trivial to figure out. You want to talk about customization, take a walk through the old Meedio Ultimate Installer. Jesus christmas it was bad.
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Vinlaen posted:Has anybody compared the Boxee Beta (open beta starts today) to the latest XBMC (w/Confluence, etc)? I've got both installed on this very computer. The newest default skin of XBMC (Confluence) is much better looking than Boxee's skin and much better looking then the old XBMC default skin. From scratch, both require the same amount of configuration. What more work you have to do is determined by how your media files are organized and named.
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Hmmm, I'm a little disappointed in hearing that actually. I really like the idea of Boxee's video streaming capabilities but I wish it had a better interface to go with it. I'm at work right now but I plan on installing both of them when I get home to make a comparison too...
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quote:Boxee Box internals revealed. NVIDIA Tegra 2 FTW
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So does the Boxee Box work out of the box (with the OS on flash or something), or does it need a HDD? I didn't realize how small it is. 120mm is tiny. Also, only RF remote is a pretty bad idea. Like they say, it kills it for something like Harmony universal remotes. EC posted:Edit: wow only six buttons on the front? That kind of sucks. With XBMC, I have to have a BACK button, a CLOSE button, a MENU button, an INFO button...their interface better be good enough to work around those kind of things.
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I don't mind the lack of IR. I would imagine that anyone that most people have sort of IR receiver kicking around at this point, and everyone else would have the knowhow/impetus to buy a cheap receiver.
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Thermopyle posted:The default XBMC skin is bland. That's why you use something like Aeon or Alaska.
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suddenlyissoon posted:Where is the download for Alaska? I found a mediafire link but it wouldn't load for me. Hit the Download Source link from this page, but note that there's some extras you need to download from the MF page but that it seems to be going really slow right now.
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So, I dunno whether anybody noticed this yet, but there have apparently been builds available for a while now for the DXVA-enabled branch of XBMC. It looks like it's nearly done since the to-do list consists of something that's just being finished up today (getting it to compile with VC Express) and adding subtitle support. There's a thread about it here if anyone's interested. It's news to me, anyway.
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Kreeblah posted:So, I dunno whether anybody noticed this yet, but there have apparently been builds available for a while now for the DXVA-enabled branch of XBMC. It looks like it's nearly done since the to-do list consists of something that's just being finished up today (getting it to compile with VC Express) and adding subtitle support. There's a thread about it here if anyone's interested. It's news to me, anyway. Yes, it's been discussed in the XMBC thread. It works with caveats which seem to depend upon the phase the moon is in. I've been following that thread since it's beginning...
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My Lenovo media keyboard/trackball/mouse thing finally showed up today (P.S. I HATE signature required deliveries). I haven't played with it too much yet, but I've got some first impressions. First off this thing is drat small. Like smaller than I was expecting, but in a good way. It's small enough to fit amongst my other remotes and not look completely out of place. Here's a picture (from my terrible camera phone.  Granted I've got some drat big hands, but it's just the size I was hoping. As far as keys go it looks like everything from a regular keyboard is present with the interesting exception of the Escape key. Also interesting is the Fn+Enter performs Ctrl+Alt+Del. I assumed this meant that it couldn't handle three simultaneous inputs, but it can do this as well. It seems it would have made more sense to make Fn+Enter equal Escape, but it doesn't seem like a big deal. The standard media buttons are all present and everything worked without any sort of configuration. Typing is pretty much like texting on a phone with a QWERTY keyboard. I wouldn't want to use it as a replacement for a real keyboard, but it works just fine for my HTPC purposes. The trackball is a trackball. I haven't used one of these since the mid 90s, so I can't say how it compares to a real one. Again though, it works for my purposes. I was a little worried about the range but the keyboard works just fine from 20 yards away and through about 3 walls. I assume the mouse doesn't work as well from that far but I couldn't see the TV from that far. One other oddity is the large orange button at the top left. This button opens My Computer, rather than something logical like Media Center. I can't really figure this one out but whatever. Overall, I'm quite happy with this thing. However, even though it could work in place of a regular remote, I don't know if I'd recommend as your only input device. A regular remote works much better for Media Center purposes. But for coffee table keyboard and mouse purposes, it's just what I wanted.
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WTFBEES posted:Awesome review I don't suppose you have any linux-based setups you could test that thing on, do you?
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BorderPatrol posted:I don't suppose you have any linux-based setups you could test that thing on, do you? I don't at the moment, but I might be able to throw something together this weekend. I'm not real up on my distros (nor do I know if it would make a difference), but is there any particular one you'd like me to try?
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WTFBEES posted:I don't at the moment, but I might be able to throw something together this weekend. I'm not real up on my distros (nor do I know if it would make a difference), but is there any particular one you'd like me to try? Actually the easiest would be to just bootup an XBMC Live CD and see if all the mouse movements and keyboard commands work the same, that's my main concern. Also, not really HTPC related but Microsoft announced at CES that the Xbox360 will soon be able to act as a TV Reciever and DVR with customers using ATT U-verse. Change channels, pause, rewind, record TV and all that jazz. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Jan 8, 2010 |
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