I’ve been able to stave off gushing about the design of the Boxee Box for two entire paragraphs – I must say, I’m proud of myself. “We discussed hard-drive at length with D-Link, and figured people already have storage solutions, and that we should do our best to reduce the price of the Boxee Box,” the Boxee team writes, “You’ll be able to connect your choice of storage devices directly to the Box using USB.” The idea is that you draw your content from elsewhere in your network (or USB hard drive) and use the Boxee to play it on your TV. Interestingly, it doesn’t come with a hard drive. Software-wise, it runs the Linux version of Boxee, including Flash 10.1 so that it can play online HD content without a hitch. It only consumes 500 milliwatts of power. This means a dual core Cortex A9 CPU, a GeForce GPU, and a boatload of other chips (eight in total), making it possible to play full HD content without breaking a sweat. It has been confirmed today that it is powered by the brand-new NVIDIA Tegra 2 (T20) ARM platform. AppleTV support is still in the works.īoxee also introduced its first piece of hardware, the Boxee Box, which it builds together with D-Link.
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The new beta release is available for Ubuntu (32bit and 64bit), Mac OS X, and Windows.
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Do note, though, that you need the latest DirectX update (even Windows 7 users), or else you’ll get a blank screen when playing some content. The alpha used OpenGL, but the new version uses DirectX and DirectX Video Acceleration, lessening the burden carried by your processor when playing high definition content. Windows users have an additional cool new feature: DirectX support. Admittedly, it’s balanced out somewhat by the new resume function (finally!). If the latter, I’ll be one unhappy camper. I’m not sure if it has been moved, or simply removed altogether. In the alpha, when the automatic metadata tool couldn’t find a match based on the file name, you could enter the name, season, and episode of a TV series by hand, after which it would search again and present any possible hits, including the handy “apply to folder” check box.
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One thing I haven’t yet been able to find is the manual metadata function. Unwatched items will appear in bold, white font.” You can put almost anything into your Queue, a movie, a TV show episode, an Internet stream, a local file,” the Boxee team explains, “In addition, if you added your favorite TV shows into My Shows then new episodes will automatically be added to your Queue.
“The Boxee Queue is a list that you control and manage. One of the additions from the beta is the queue. Not just the looks of the UI have been changed behaviour has also been changed. For the rest, not a pixel has remained untouched, so there is a little bit of a learning curve involved.
The biggest change is that the “side” menu has been moved to the centre of the screen, and a “global” version of the side menu has been added – which I already find very, very handy. The new user interface was revealed early December, and it was redesigned from the ground up. Let’s start with the new beta release first.
On top of that, Boxee launched its very first piece of hardware during CES, the Boxee Box, together with D-Link. My favourite media centre software, Boxee, has just launched the highly-anticipated new beta version of its XBMC-based media centre, complete with a redesigned user interface.
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