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New details of next year's Boxee Box announced

article published on 8 December, 2009

At a launch party in New York City last night Boxee representatives announced the beta version of their web-based media center program which runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, and AppleTV set-top boxes. The company also released additional details about the upcoming Boxee set-top box. It will be manufactured by D-Link and go on sale to the public next year. Both the Boxee Box and the Boxee ... [ read the full article ]

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emugamer
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_ 		8. December 2009 @ 11:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The standalone boxee looks promising. Lots of video container support and a great interface. I'd look into this to replace my popcornhour and it's rudimentary gui.

XBMC was my favorite and only media center for SD media. I've been waiting for an HD equivalent.
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Burnasty
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I tried boxee a while ago and wen't right back xbmc. XBMC seems to work better with my setup in terms of setup and giving me my media the way I like it. I know boxee is derived from xbmc but it seems to have gone too far from the core for my likes.
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emugamer
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Originally posted by Burnasty:
 I tried boxee a while ago and wen't right back xbmc. XBMC seems to work better with my setup in terms of setup and giving me my media the way I like it. I know boxee is derived from xbmc but it seems to have gone too far from the core for my likes.
What OS do you have XBMC running in? It ran buggy for me when I had Vista Ultimate 64. Haven't tried it in 7 yet.

I'm assuming that a self contained version of Boxee in a standalone unit would be stable though.
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Burnasty
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I had ran it on vista business 32 bit and 7 home premium 64 bit. XBMC is the gold standard.
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