Netflix on the Boxee Box

Posted in Netflix by Conner Flynn on February 14th, 2011

Hope you got some Chocolate and roses this Valentine’s day. Here’s one more gift. The Boxee Box has Netflix streaming. CEO Avner Ronen says that this has been the most common request by users. Once the latest software update is downloaded, owners can enjoy everything that the latest Netflix interface has to offer, if you are in the US or Canada.

This update also delivers support for Dolby Digital TrueHD bitstreaming, high resolution SRT subtitles and updated support for IR remotes. Now go watch some Netflix.

Boxee Box ships November 10th

Posted in Set Top Boxes by Conner Flynn on October 20th, 2010

Well, now it is confirmed that the D-Link Boxee Box will begin shipping on November 10th. It will come pre-loaded with Boxee 1.0 to get you started. If you placed a pre-order with Amazon, you could receive your Box as early as November 11th.

The rest of the Boxes should start arriving in stores on November 17th. Just goes to show you that sometimes it pays to place an Amazon pre-order instead.

Pre-Order the Boxee Box today, now with Intel CE4100

Posted in Set Top Boxes by Conner Flynn on September 13th, 2010

If you have been waiting for the Boxee Box, your wait is almost over. Pre-orders start today. In other news, it no longer has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 under the hood. Boxee has switched to the Intel Atom CE4100. The company had said that it expected the Box to hit the streets at under $200, but now it is $229.

Intel’s CE4100 processor is the same one found inside Logitech’s Google TV box. So now your Boxee will be able to handle full 1080p playback at 60fps. The Boxee Box should ship in November in Canada, Australia, European Union and the U.S.

Boxee Box Release Delayed Until November

Posted in D-Link by Darrin Olson on June 13th, 2010

Boxee Box release delayedWe hadn’t heard anything from D-Link and their Boxee Box in a while and they were coming towards the end of the expected Q2 release when they made a blog post announcing the delay of release. Apparently the Q2 time frame “proved overly ambitious” according to the post and a new release date for the US and Canada has been set to ship sometime in November.

The Boxee Box boasts the ability to bring many different types of streaming media to your HDTV from multiple online sources or connected directly through local media storage devices. Pandora, last.fm, shoutcast, We are Hunted, flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Flash 10.1 and most recently My Damn Channel are some of the media tied into the box.

Boxee Box gets official, under $200

Posted in D-Link by Conner Flynn on January 5th, 2010

Despite being announced already, the Boxee Box just got more officially official, showing off at CES. Now it also has a more complete spec list. It will cost under $200, with support a wide variety of formats, including DivX, VC-1, WMV, H.264 MKV, and Flash 10.1.

Service support is just as broad, with Pandora, Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, and Flickr. Plus there’s Boxee’s app platform, plugins, and games. No word on just what is powering this device, but NVIDA is a good guess.