Streaming Media Player

Streaming Media Player

Full HD movie rentals from VUDU.

 

Product Specifications

Brand NameD-Link

Color NameBlack

Specification MetNo

Streaming Media Player

Technical Details

• Watch your favorite movies and TV shows with Netflix and Vudu instantly on your HDTV
• Play videos, songs, or pictures from your computer or home network
• Plays any non-DRM video, music, and photos and media from anywhere on the Internet
• For the best Boxee Box experience, use a wired, high-speed internet connection

Streaming Media Player

Boxee Box via my wireless-N network. Internet videos play well, but some Internet video sources are kludgy. Streaming Media Player Playing a video on Fancast, for instance, will open a web browser, showing the web page and the video in a small box. You have to use the remote to move the mouse cursor to the tiny "full screen" button and click it to get the video to play full screen. Good luck doing that on the couch, 10-20 feet from the TV! This is a big deal because the new Boxee software puts networked content front-and-center, in the "Most Popular" movies and shows pages. It's wonderful to be able to watch (ad-supported) shows that you haven't paid for, but it's a pain that you have to hunt for the full screen button, which looks different on every website, to do so.

Streaming Media Player

Apps, on the other hand, are fantastic. TED and YouTube work exactly as you would expect, and there are dozens more available. Netflix and Hulu Plus apps have been promised; Boxee is working out the arrangements and hope to have these available by the end of the year (early next year for Hulu Plus). I hope for their sake that they do. Competing devices all support Netflix, and Netflix is, in my opinion, one of the most compelling sources for staming content.

Streaming Media Player

Linking your online Boxee account to Twitter and Facebook seems like overkill at first, but it actually is pretty compelling to be able to watch videos that your friends are sharing. The RSS app is great, too. Through the Boxee website, you can subscribe to a whole bunch of video and audio streams (podcasts). Then, you can launch the RSS app and browse through the stream. It's very nice. I don't bother sharing what I watch on TV with my Facebook friends and Twitter followers, though, but I could if I wanted to. I think that if a large number of people I know used Boxee, this would be a lot more useful.

Streaming Media Player