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Making matters worse, our Pioneer Elite receiver and Kuro TV had HDMI handshake issues with the Boxee Box on every restart, flashing static on the screen until we switched inputs back and forth a few times to get a good handshake. We've never had any problems with our router and we're sitting on a 50Mbps FiOS connection, so slow networks speeds are a sad surprise. We did run into two repeated and supremely annoying issues, however: first, our Boxee Box suffered from extremely slow throughput speeds on WiFi and couldn't seem to hold a connection for very long, and when it dropped it required a restart. We understand that every TV handles overscan differently, but adjusting for it is a super-wonky step that only a few people care about - there's got to be a better automatic setting that can be used here.
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The biggest improvement over similar smart TV setup procedures was the remote, which enabled us to type in account info and passwords quickly, while the biggest annoyance was a screen-sizing task that echoes the one found during Google TV setup.
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Setting up the Boxee Box is pretty straightforward - it took us about 10 minutes to get it out of the box, plugged in, and downloading a software update over WiFi. Boxee went with an RF remote system over IR for cost reasons, and that means the Boxee Box can't be controlled by universal remotes out of the box - although you can plug in a Media Center remote if you wish.
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You're not going to sit around writing email with it, but it's more than passable for searching and the occasional password entry.īut it's not all roses - in day-to-day use it's far too easy to grab the remote the wrong way round without noticing, since the front face is almost completely symmetrical save for the raised Boxee logo, and we also always seemed to flip over to the QWERTY side upside-down for some reason. It's a brilliant design that prompts appreciation from everyone who comes across it - it's easily the best home theater keyboard we've ever come across. The front side holds a four-way D-pad with select button, a play / pause buttons, and a menu button, while the rear has a very nice small QWERTY keyboard for easy searches. Of course, the most important part of the Boxee Box experience isn't the box - it's the remote! We fell in love with Boxee's two-faced QWERTY remote the first time we saw it at CES, and those feelings have mostly survived the honeymoon period. Although there are some differences between Boxee's board and Google TV - we're told the WiFi chip is different, for example - overall the Boxee Box makes the Revue and Sony's Internet TV Blu-ray player look comically oversized for the platform they contain. Internally, the Boxee Box uses an Intel CE4110 chip, which is "nearly identical" to the CE4150 found in Google TV devices, 1GB of flash memory, and 1GB of RAM. We will say that it's much more attractive than any of the Google TV devices we've seen the Logitech Revue looks like a generic piece of Tupperware in comparison. It's a polarizing design - we have a lot of room in our A/V rack, so we rather like it, but if you're tight for space you might have different feelings. The bottom is made of a bright green rubber, while the back houses Ethernet, HDMI, optical and composite audio-out jacks, two USB ports and the power socket, all slanted downwards at the odd angle dictated by the case. The asymmetrical shape makes sit larger than it really is - although it's not much bigger in footprint than an Apple TV, it can't be stacked or hidden away too easily. Unlike most other connected TV devices, the Boxee Box is designed to stand out - it's a cube sliced sharply across the bottom, with a glossy fingerprint-magnet front and a glowing green logo, lending it a decidedly futuristic appearance.
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So have Boxee CEO Avner Ronen and company pulled it off? Is the Boxee Box the ultimate connected TV device? Or has a punk rock media revolution turned into just another polite New Wave streamer? Read on for the full Engadget review to find out!%Gallery-107418% That's a lot of changes, and, quite frankly, a lot of hype - Boxee's dedicated fans are expecting the small company and its asymmetrical Box to show up no less than Apple and Google.
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What's more, Boxee's gone from being an upstart rock'n'roll rebel to a legit market player, with a Netflix deal on the books and - wonder of wonders - an agreement to bring Hulu Plus to the Boxee Box sometime next year. But a platform switch from NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chip to Intel's Atom-based CE4100 platform cost Boxee and D-Link valuable time, while the Boxee software went through a dramatic UI transformation from the beta to 1.0. It's a little strange that the Boxee Box by D-Link feels like a late entrant in this year's crowded smart TV market - the core Boxee software has been around forever, and the Box itself was announced way back in January at CES.