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| Brand | D-Link |
| Item Weight | 998 g |
| Product Dimensions | 11.5 x 11.5 x 11.6 cm |
| Item model number | DSM-380 |
| Number of Ethernet Ports | 1 |
| ASIN | B0043EV3MS |
| Best Sellers Rank | 3,816 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100) |
| Shipping Weight | 1.7 Kg |
| Date First Available | 15 Sep 2010 |
Product Description
Product Description
Watch What You Want
We get it – you want to have the freedom to watch whatever you want on your TV: Movies, TV Shows, but also any other video that is available online. You want to do it without having to connect a computer to your TV or use a keyboard and mouse. That's why we've designed the Boxee Box by D-Link: watch, organise, share – you are now in full command of your TV for the first time. No rules, no contracts.
The Boxee Box by D-Link brings all the stuff you normally watch on a computer to your TV; movies and TV programmes streamed from the Internet, 400 different apps that let you access content from most popular websites, and a full web browser just in case we missed anything. The Boxee Box will also help you rediscover your own media collection by automatically identifying all the files on a hard drive or home network and then building a stunning visual media library for you. And just so you don’t end up watching the same stuff over and over, the Boxee Box pulls recommendations from your friends on Facebook and Twitter to help you discover new favourites. All this plus a unique QWERTY remote so you can search, login, and browse with ease.
Watch What You Want, When You Want It
- Catch-up TV - hundreds of shows available for free from your favourite channels, ready to watch any time
- Huge Movie Library - Enjoy free movies from the web
- Play Your Stuff Too - Access videos, songs, or photos from your computer or home network
- See What Your Friends are Watching - Follow what your Facebook and Twitter friends are watching, and share your favourites too
- Give Your Wallet a Break - Get tons of free entertainment from the Internet with no monthly fee
- High Resolution - Experience the thrill of 1080p, more than twice the resolution of 720p
Unlimited Content
If you can watch it on your computer’s Internet browser, you can watch it on your flat screen TV with the Boxee Box. The Boxee Browser is similar to IE or Firefox, but optimised to create an intuitive Internet experience with our QWERTY remote on your HDTV, seamlessly. The Boxee Box delivers all your favourite web-videos and web-only content, no matter how obscure they may be, straight to your TV set.
Say Goodbye to Files and Folders. Say Hello to Boxee
Not only does the Boxee Box give you access to TV shows and movies from all over the Internet, it takes your personal video, picture and music files from a hard drive or home network to your HDTV. Whether it’s MP3, MP4, .jpeg, .avi, .mkv – the Boxee Box works with virtually any file type – if you can create it, the Boxee Box will play it. Tell Boxee where your media is stored, and it will automatically identify and download all relevant artwork and info to simplify your digital collection. Start navigating your personal library with big, colourful thumbnail photos that you can access with a remote. Your friends will be impressed, maybe even a bit jealous.
Just connect an external hard drive or flash storage drive via USB, or share media files from your computer over your home network. With Boxee it's easy to move your HD media from your monitor to your living room and enjoy watching your movies in Full HD 1080p resolution.
Watch Video in Stunning HD, The Way It Was Meant To Be
The Boxee Box supports full HD 1080p with 5.1 surround sound so you can experience any video from the web or your home network exactly the way it was meant to be, all from the comfort of your sofa. No PC required.
The Boxee Box - Part of the Smart TV Revolution
The Boxee Box uses Intel’s advanced Atom Processor, which allows it to playback nearly any HD video file format with crystal clarity. We’ve worked closely with Intel on their Smart TV program to ensure the Boxee Box meets all their criteria for the TV experience of the future – limitless Internet video, easy search, social features and so much more.
Tailored to Your Sofa
The Internet gives you the freedom to watch what you want… but there’s no big screen, no easy interface to sift through the mountains of TV shows, movies and content available online from your sofa, and the real killer, no remote! Only the Boxee Box brings the Internet to your HDTV in stunning 1080p, with Dolby Surround Sound, via an award-winning interface that simplifies everything. As if that wasn’t enough, it comes with a full QWERTY remote to put it all at your fingertips. You start typing, the Boxee Box starts finding.
See What Your Friends are Watching
One of the greatest things about the Boxee Box is that if you can’t find something to watch, you can easily turn to your friends. Get recommendations from your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Boxee delivered straight to your TV. See something you love? Recommend it to your friends on those networks and include a link so they can immediately check it out too.
Setup? Not an Issue
Setting up your Boxee Box is a breeze. Wireless N support and an easy-to-connect HDMI interface help to eliminate the typical jumble of unsightly cables. Simply connect the power, connect your TV and hit the power button. The Boxee Box will walk you through the rest – from creating an account to setting up your network to getting the most out of your HDTV. We’ve made it dead simple so you can get started in under 10 minutes.
Try Boxee Now
Download Boxee software for free at www.boxee.tv, and try it out before you buy. It only takes a minute to register and the download is absolutely free. Already a Boxee user? When you’re ready to shift the Boxee experience from your PC to your HDTV, the Boxee Box by D-Link will automatically import your account – making your favourite TV shows, movies apps, and shortcuts instantly available.
Product Description
Technical Specifications: DLNA function: Client · Playback formats: Video-Formate: FLV, F4V, M4V, TS, AVI, MKB, MOV, M2TS, MP4, TS, AVI, MKV, WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG3, MPEG4, DivX, ASF, WMV Bild-Formate: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF , Audio-Formate: MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AIF/AIFF, AC3/AAC, OGG, FLAC, Dolby Digital/Dolby True HD (downmix)
Description: D-LINK DSM-380 BOXEE BOX HD MEDIA-PLAYER
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Customer Reviews
It's slow, it freezes, it crashes and its so unreliable it beggers belief.
Where to start, oh god...
I added my movie hard disk (~4000 things) it found about 1/3 of the movies automatically and gave me nice pretty pictures of the dvd/video covers, great... but wait, 25% of the 1/3 it found were wrong!
Changing the movie cover/type/description to match what the movie actually is takes an age, and if it doesn't know about your movie actually (for example I have some movies of my grandchildren) it won't let you enter your own description, oh no, you *must* choose it from some internet database (my grandchildren aren't famous enough it would seem to warrant having a movie title of their own!).
Yes it plays YouTube movies, but it takes an age to switch from playing a movie to playing youtube and back again.
Loading apps is painfully slow.
Playing music, is just terrible, it doesn't let you play by genre, or the complete works of an artist, only by a single album. I have over 10,000 albums, it takes ages to get from Abba to ZZ Top (I have both, you could say "eclectic").
The movie playback, when it does work, is actually pretty good quality, I like the size of the "device" and I like the remote control, but I'm sorry, this is a great idea let down by terrible software and a lack of thought about it's use. I'll be replacing it with a miniMac, yes it's a lot more, but it'll work!
If I could figure out how to return the item to amazon, I would.
Initially when I heard the price, I thought D-Link are joking and actually decided to buy Western Digital Live HD box but decided to return it after few days as it was extremely limited compared to Boxee. Last week I decided not to waste more time and buy the Boxee box, what a great decision that was.
Pros:
1. It plays back every format under the sun.
2. The remote control is genius, and contrary to what one of the reviewers said it DOES have numbers.
3. The online content is fantastic, and contains live data from BBC iPlayer, Youtube, channel 4 & 5, Engadget, TED and loads more.
4. Open architecture allows additional plugins to be developed so it's future proof (the box already comes with 130 plugins already installed!).
5. Automatically retrieves information about your movies from the internet and puts a nice picture icon of your movies. It also does the same with the music (gets band pictures and info from the internet).
6. It supports Arabic subtitles. I know this doesn't matter to a lot of people but tha fact that it supports Arabic means it will also support all other right-to-left languages like Hebrew,...etc. The box can actually download subtitles from the internet while the movie is playing.
7. Supports MKV with subtitles, chapters and all the other great features.
8. Supports Blu Ray ISO. I haven't tested many features as I don't have many Blu-Ray ISOs but everything worked in the ones I tested.
Cons:
1. As one of the reviews said, some online content is simply a shortcut to a web page that opens in Boxee browser. Some websites are designed and tested to work with major browsers like IE, Firefox,..etc so sometimes they don't work very well with the Boxee browser.
2. As this box has a browser, a mouse would have been a very nice addition as navigating using the keyboard is painful, though possible.
And finally I'm borrowing this quote from Andy C's review: It is probably still a device best suited to the techie crowd but in time as the interface becomes more polished and the online content improves it should be a great device, in fact I suspect this kind of kit will completely take over our home entertainment needs in the coming years.
A major firmware update is coming early December so the box will even get better.
But that's not the worst of it... Boxee allows you to use its browser to surf the web on your TV. However, its browser doesn't support the version of flash needed to play video from sites such as BlinkBox, ITVPlayer, TVCathcup etc etc. So, I can't use it's purpose-built apps to watch UK channels (except iPlayer) and I can't use it to access the web and watch video through it's browser.
In short, if I'd known then what I know now, I would have purchased a simple/small PC tower and a cheap wireless mouse/keyboard. I would then be able to stream anything I wanted on my TV.
Please take note if you are in the UK - you might spend more time dusting it than using it.
Wanted to stream from a flat file store such as NAS, Hdisk, i didnt want to have to run a... Read more
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