Boxee box to come to Blighty
D-Link outs delivery date
D-Link's Boxee-branded set-top box will go on sale in the UK on 12 November.
The blocky box will be priced at around £200 and connects your TV directly to the Boxee IPTV service. Boxee's software is based on the open source media centre software XBMC.
The box has HMDI for the TV connection, and 802.11n Wi-Fi - 2.4GHz only, so far as we can see - and Ethernet for the network link. It all runs on Intel's Atom chippage.
Once connected up, you can play internet content, slot in an SD card, or hook up a hard drive to either of the box's two USB ports. It supports pretty much every format there is apart from DRM-encumbered files. ®
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That's going to stack well....
Still, I guess that's what you get when you leave case design up to the newly recruited graduate design wonk. Ho hum.
GJC
IP vision Fetch TV whatever its called...
Is a Dual tuner freeview HD+ PVR...with 320GB builtin HDD, it will play media from the HDD, a USB device or a networked Media Server via wire or built in Wireless... you can export recordings to USB or access via a web browser and download. Select channel 'BBC' (222) and you get iPlayer select 'Sky'(759) and you get skyplayer. It costs £199 from tesco.
I dont get why Boxee is targetting £200?
Looks like someone was cutting corners in the design.
Ok, ok, I'm getting it.
Rip-off UK pricing
Amazon USA $199.99 Amazon (and others) UK pricing £199.99
Us folks in the UK are getting ripped off.
And you'd spend £200 on one of these because?
When a PS3 costs the same price, does everything it does, and a darn sight more....
