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On 09/28/2010 08:08 AM, David Meixner wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Matt Emmott
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href="mailto:memmott@gmail.com">memmott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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class="gmail_quote">I pre-ordered mine at Amazon as soon as it was
available (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Boxee-Box-by-D-Link/dp/B0038JE07O/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285370067&sr=8-1"
target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/The-Boxee-Box-by-D-Link/dp/B0038JE07O/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285370067&sr=8-1</a>
). It has the following noteworthy specs:<br>
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* Intel Atom CE4100 SOC which supposedly "is capable of handling 2
simultaneous 1080p video streams. It supports H.264 video, 3D graphics,
and Adobe Flash 10." (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://liliputing.com/tag/atom-ce4100" target="_blank">http://liliputing.com/tag/atom-ce4100</a>
)<br>
* 802.11 n/g/b<br>
* Support for up to 32GB SHDC (no disk onboard apparently)<br>
* Netflix streaming<br>
* Kickass 2-sided bluetooth remote with nav pad on one side and QWERTY
on the other<br>
* $199<br>
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I'm not very familiar with the CE4100 and most searches turned up more
articles on the Boxee Box, but I believe I saw on Engadget that it
supports VAAPI, which I see is in preliminary support in .24. Wow that
was a run-on sentence. Is anybody familiar with this chip and its
feasibility with Myth? If it's an Atom then it's x86 code, which should
IMHO make it Myth-friendly.<br>
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Anyways, the obvious questions besides hardware are A) What OS is it
running and B) Will it be easy to get a shell and install apps? Boxee's
testing and builds have always favored Ubuntu so there's hope, but with
Netflix and who knows what other "jailed apps" on board, I have to
wonder if their media partners have asked them to lock things down a
bit. Any thoughts?<br>
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<div>In my quest to give up cable, I found Boxee + MythTV + Netflix
to be a great solution. Basically, I use a MythTV backend to record
OTA HD content and use Boxee as a "light" frontend. I rename my MythTV
recordings to the format <Show Name>.S##E##.mpg, and Boxee's able
to identify the episode and automatically add it to my TV shows.
Whatever I can't get OTA, Boxee pulls in from the web, and the great
thing is that all the shows are in one place, regardless of the source
they come from. This setup doesn't give you things like comm skipping,
but I'm willing to sacrifice that for the fully integrated solution
that Boxee provides. This may not be of ineterest to you if you're a
cable subscriber, but if you want to ditch cable and still watch The
Daily Show, I've found it to work really well.</div>
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<div>Sorry if this is a litte off topic from the original post. I'm
running Boxee on my desktop, but this should be doable on the Boxee
Box, and I can't imagine they would ship the thing without Netflix
support.</div>
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I always have found it very interesting that everyone online seems to
watch the Daily Show, yet their ratings are pretty horrible compared to
other cable news shows.<br>
-Steve<br>
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