If nothing else, you’ve probably heard a lot about its design, which looks like an alien black cube melting halfway through the surface of whatever it’s sitting on. The hardware set-top box is called the Boxee Box, and is manufactured by D-Link. The Linux version is capable of running on a home theater PC (HTPC) in addition to as a desktop app: it can output digital audio (even passing through DTS and AC3 signals to a receiver), adjust video overscan, and be controlled with a LIRC-compliant remote instead of a mouse.
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The company makes builds available for Linux (32 and 64 bit), Mac OS X, Windows, and the Apple TV (which runs a variant of Apple’s iOS platform). I’m hopeful it will succeed, not simply because the Boxee Box is slick hardware with an even slicker remote, but because it raises the bar considerably for open source entertainment devices.įor those unfamiliar, Boxee is a derivative of the XBMC media center - streamlined, with a customized user interface, connected to a “social network” base of other Boxee users, and pre-loaded with scores of Web content feeds. So when media-center maker Boxee announced last year that it was adding a Linux-based set-top hardware device to what used to be a software-only product, it took on a decidedly tougher market. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new device for sale designed to get music, movies, and entertainment to your TV without the hassle of old-fashioned delivery systems like cable or satellite.
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