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Boxee Box by D-Link (officially “D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380“) is a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on the 10th of November 2010.Designed to easily bring internet television and other video to the television via Boxee’s software, it comes pre-installed with Boxee media center software and the hardware is based on Intel CE4110 system-on-a-chip platform (that has a 1.2Ghz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 Integrated graphics processor), 1GB of RAM memory, and 1GB of NAND Flash Memory. The DM-380 features output ports for HDMI (version 1.3), optical digital audio (S/PDIF) connector, and RCA connector for analog stereo audio, two USB ports, an SD card slot, wired 100Mbps (100BASE-T) ethernet, and built-in 802.11n WiFi.

The Boxee Box also ships with a small two-sided RF remote control with 4-way D-pad navigation and full a QWERTY keypad as standard, and this remote is also being sold separately with an USB-receiver as “D-Link Boxee Box Remote DSM-22″ that one can use with Boxee installed on a computer so that one can use this remote without owning D-Link’s Boxee Box The look of both the case and remote prototypes for the Boxee Box was designed by San Francisco based Astro Studios, which is the same designer company that designed the look of Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Zune.

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The LED colors provide a status indication on the D-Link DSM-380 Boxee Box,Use the chart below to determine the meaning of the indicator lights on the Box.

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D-Link Boxee Box(DSM-380) Reviews. There’s a host of useful set-up stuff in the menus, including video test patterns to align the picture correctly to the screen and fine-tune the image quality. You can adjust overscan and aspect ratio (it even allows for cinemastyle 21:9 screens), and change your audio output options to suit either a specialist AV amp or a more basic setup. It’ll recognise and play just about any format of music, video and photo.

The remote seems brilliant: the double-sided design fits neatly in the palm and features a simple clicker-based cursor/controller on one side, plus a full QWERTY keypad on the other. In practice, there are moments when you’ll be juggling between the two control interfaces – but even so, this is way better than the Apple TV’s.

Boxee DSM-380 works like a content aggregator, bringing together the best free web content into one platform. You get plenty to choose from, but some online content suffers from patchy picture quality. There’s a proper web browser in here, complete with search engine (Bing), so you can also pull up web pages, maps and more.

Aside from YouTube offerings or your own downloads, Boxee also gives you free movies to watch, usually from independent studios and almost always ad-supported. Picture and sound quality can be ropey, though.

You might have hoped for a slick, app-style experience with online streaming sites and the like, but it doesn’t work as well as it should. Your content starts playing in a mini-window, exactly as it does on your laptop: you then have to cursor over the ‘full screen’ icon (not easy) to blow up the image.

With twin USB and SD inputs, the Boxee Box DSM-380 isn’t just a streamer: it’s also a local media player, able to replay directly from, say, a USB hard disk. The Boxee will browse your content, pull out the playable media and arrange your viewable files in an easily accessible folder structure, with thumbnails where relevant. It’ll do the same with any NAS drive on your network, too.

That’s great for convenience and also means the Box – plus a suitable hard disk full of content – will travel well: even if you can’t go online, you’ll still have plenty to play.

All this flexibility is great, but it clearly demands a powerful processor (Intel’s Atom CE4100), and in turn that means fan-cooling, unlike Apple TV. The Boxee Box DSM-380 doesn’t get hot in use – unlike the last-generation Apple design – but it’s always humming to itself, whatever you’re watching. That, it must be said, can get irritating.

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Boxee device offers a range of options including full HD streaming to a TV, and internet browsing.

Networking specialist D-Link has launched the Boxee Box, a home media product that delivers content direct to a television without the need for a PC.

The device allows users to watch movies and TV programmes from the internet, stream content from websites, browse the net and organise and enjoy their own media, all using the device’s qwerty remote control. Users can also download free remote apps for the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre, in addition to the remote.

It is powered by Intel’s Atom CE4100 ‘system-on-a-chip’, designed specially for TV and internet integration. The Intel-based hardware allows Boxee’s open software platform to deliver up to full HD over a wired or wireless-N network.

A huge selection of content and hundreds of apps are available for the Boxee, from providers include the BBC, Last.fm, CNET, CNN, Channel 4, Comedy Central, Facebook, ITV, MTV Music, mySpaceTV, YouTube, Flickr, and Picasa. The device can play most common video, music and photo formats.

According to the vendor, the Boxee Box has a highly intuitive user interface, giving users the option to create a bespoke home screen, categorising all their media on one page. Users can also share anything they’re watching or listening to with friends over social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.

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D-Link Boxee box first sight,From Zatz Not Funny! http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2010-07/d-link-boxee-box-first-look/

Boxee Chief Product Officer, Zach Klein gives a low-fi un-Boxee-ing intro video (recorded via iPhone) of the first D-Link Boxee box in its final production hardware. My favorite aspect of Boxee hardware continues to be the IR/RF remote control with QWERTY keyboard on the backside. The Boxee Box is slated for arrival in late October or early November and should retail for approximately $200.

The video from http://vimeo.com/13398124

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