As promised, the D-Link Boxee Box is finally shipping in the US! And that’s not all the good news its makers have for us today:
The D-Link Boxee Box (in addition to Boxee clients for PC and Mac) will offer HD movie rentals when it lands in living rooms in coming weeks, courtesy of a new partnership with Vudu. Vudu’s full HD rentals – 1080p, Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound – cost two bucks a pop for two nights of viewing. Not a bad service to add to Boxee’s arsenal, not bad at all. [Press Release]
We’ve reached the final instalment in our History Of Boxee series, because we’re at the point where the Boxee Box is about to be released and it isn’t really history if you’re making predictions about the future rather than writing about what’s already happened. But there a couple of issues we should examine.
The Boxee software does a grand job of organising digital media and helping you view it and share it with others, and you can install it on plenty of hardware platforms. But what if you don’t want to install it at all?
For anyone who pre-ordered the Boxee Box on blind faith that it would one day reach your door: the adorable little set-top box will arrive on the doorstep as early as November 11. Everyone else will have to wait some.
We’ve already established that Boxee is one of the more notable spin-offs from the original XBMC project. What is it that makes it stand out from its parent product and rival media centre software offerings?
As we’ve recounted in earlier instalments, XBMC took a long time to hit its full open source, multi-platform glory. But by 2008, not only had it successfully spread across multiple operating systems, it had also inspired a growing clan of daughter projects which took its code and swizzled it for extra effect.
If you’ve read the site at all over the past week, you’ll know that the Boxee Box is coming. But judging from some of the comments, there are still plenty of questions about the media box. Well, here’s your chance to ask anything you like about funky little media streaming device.
The arrival of XBMC on the Xbox was a significant moment in the evolution of home media centres. But the really big shift came when XBMC moved from being a console-only offering to a program that would run on multiple platforms.
