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The remote is brilliant though, I bought a standalone version of the remote that I still use today. ![]() It never met the user experience of the downloaded version + a standalone computer which is weird because I bought the box to skip the hassles of a normal PC, updates, noise, OS issues, etc. They patched over the next few months and eventually it became okayish but at that point it was just too much of a hassle and I returned it. Unfortunately the thing just barely worked. ![]() So in one fell swoop I went from an awesome media center to the buggy Boxee Box. I think what crippled it is that what you got with the Box wasn't anything like Boxee was before, it was an entirely new Beta UI, and then right around the same time they killed the standalone version. I was a Boxee Box early adopter and got it as soon as it came out. Because I need a new media-box soon and I still haven't found anything which looks like a worthwhile replacement for my old Boxee box. I hope Samsung buying these guys means they will be going back to doing what they used to do well. They took something which worked well and let it rot, super-busy failing at something else. They took and sacrificed the one thing they did well trying to be "everything to everyone". They went from being what everyone wished XBMC could be, to something completely without focus. So you need to reboot the device every now and then. But nobody has been pushing any updates to fix that. There also seems to be some performance problems arising. That Youtube app which was kinda shit, but sorta worked? Yeah, no longer working after Youtube introduced couch-mode. They wanted me to sign up for an account, have it integrate with everything social, pull all my friends embarassing youtube likes and linked facebook content, in my face, everytime I turned the device on.Īnd then they stopped updating the apps and app-repos. Then they shifted focus away from the one thing it did great (play your media, from your storage and network devices) to the one everyone fails at: Creating a "unified livingroom media experience". #BOXEE BOX XBMC INSTALLABLE DOWNLOAD#You could no longer download and sample the software. It was great.īut then, suddenly they seemed to shift focus. They even shipped updates, and with a simple checkbox, you could join the beta-channel to get early releases.Īnd you did get releases often enough to feel that you were using a living product. #BOXEE BOX XBMC INSTALLABLE SOFTWARE#It extracted, identified and unified meta-data much better than any other software I have seen, and auto-combined it into a huge database, all without having performance degraded, like much software does when the library goes big.Įverything was great. ![]() The box itself played all kinds of file-formats & sources without a hitch. Qwerty on the other side, for apps, searches, etc. It was genius marketing and it had me throwing out my old setup instantly. Yes, you could actually download the software, see that it met your needs, and then buy it, prepacked as a dedicated device, an appliance. #BOXEE BOX XBMC INSTALLABLE FOR FREE#When I bought the Boxee Box, it was because I had sampled the software for free on a regular PC first. As a Boxee Box owner, I think they had a chance, a niche of their own and they blew it. ![]()
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