I love my little Boxee v1 box. I may be a developer and I may love technology, but I utterly despise anything remotely related to hi-fi, and I want my stuff as plug-and-play as possible. My supposed "SmartTV" from Samsung sucked (aside from the iPlayer integration, which worked really well) -- but the boxee v1 worked a treat. Plug. Scan. Play.
The QWERTY remote was icing on the cake, to be honest.
Glad to see Samsung taking over; maybe now Netflix will work in the UK on it.
I wish I could say I had the same experience with the box. The firmwares were consistently buggy and never quite worked well.
By far the two most frustrating aspects being the forced updates (which were often more buggy or broke features) and the lockups while in sleep. There was nothing more annoying than having to get up and hard reboot the thing every time I wanted to watch something.
Once the Pi and raspbmc became a viable alternative I quickly replaced my boxee boxes because, while not bug free by any means, they're much closer to "just working" than the boxee box ever was.
The one good thing I can say about the boxee box, though, is that its remote was a real treat. That thing worked like a charm.
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I love my little Boxee v1 box. I may be a developer and I may love technology, but I utterly despise anything remotely related to hi-fi, and I want my stuff as plug-and-play as possible. My supposed "SmartTV" from Samsung sucked (aside from the iPlayer integration, which worked really well) -- but the boxee v1 worked a treat. Plug. Scan. Play.
The QWERTY remote was icing on the cake, to be honest.
Glad to see Samsung taking over; maybe now Netflix will work in the UK on it.
I wish I could say I had the same experience with the box. The firmwares were consistently buggy and never quite worked well.
By far the two most frustrating aspects being the forced updates (which were often more buggy or broke features) and the lockups while in sleep. There was nothing more annoying than having to get up and hard reboot the thing every time I wanted to watch something.
Once the Pi and raspbmc became a viable alternative I quickly replaced my boxee boxes because, while not bug free by any means, they're much closer to "just working" than the boxee box ever was.
The one good thing I can say about the boxee box, though, is that its remote was a real treat. That thing worked like a charm.
Agreed, and for the price, really hoping that XBMC's stability issues on the Ouya get worked out.