![]() ![]() I've used Netflix before on my Tivo, and while Netflix on the Boxee Box is far better, it's still Netflix so nothing really surprised me here. I tend to use it for two specific purposes: 1) there's a video I want to watch on the big screen instead of my computer monitor, 2) there's a video I want to show my wife or friends.The other revelation to me has been vudu. I never realized how much I'd like this feature. Then, the next time you have the Boxee Box running, you go to your Watch Later queue and you can watch the videos you've saved. When you see a video on Youtube and a handful of other video sites, you click on the Boxee bookmarklet and the video is saved to your Boxee queue. When I first got the Box, I fell in love with "Watch it Later." This is a mechanism that involves a browser bookmarlet. In this regard it blows the Apple TV out of the water (don't worry, Apple fanatics, it loses to it in many other ways).My favorite thing about the Boxee Box is that I thought local media handling was going to be my favorite part about the device, but then other things pleasantly surprised me. The Box also handles more types of media than anything else out there. For things like TV Shows and Movies, it does an amazing job presenting them to you in an easy to browse way. Well, that is, local content that isn't personal content, if you know what I mean. I challenge anybody reading this to find ANY other device on the market that handles local content better than the Boxee Box. There are moments where the Box just fails a little and tarnishes the experience.But like I said, for the most part I really like it. I fall just short of loving it because of so many tiny quirks. As a user of Boxee from it's early software days, who put up with the decision to focus on expensive hardware, I can't see myself being a Boxee user much longer.įor the most part, I really, really, really like my Boxee Box. AirPlay is still a checkbox hidden way down in a menu and marked as beta. There are bugs that will probably never get fixed, and half-completed features that will apparently stay that way forever. With Boxee saying they're never going to release new features for the Boxee Box I'm pretty disappointed. I thought I was spending $200 on something that was going to last me a while, rather than $70 on a Roku that would need to be replaced every few years. It seems like the premium for the original Boxee Box over the others was going to be more power, more future-proofing, more everything. Now that it's clear Boxee has a very bad habit of dropping support for their products, it's hard to recommend the original Boxee Box or even the new TV version. ![]() The Boxee Box is by no means perfect, but compared to Roku, Apple TV and some of the more DIY options I think it has a place.
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