<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 09:45:54 am Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> snip<br>
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> > I was considering buying a Boxee box, but it doesn't look like it would<br>
> > give me anything I can't get with Myth and PlayON<br>
> > now, except a strange-looking box in my LR.<br>
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> It will give you native Netflix without the need for Windows or PlayOn.<br>
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</div></div>So, like the Roku box, it runs Linux but can get Netflix? Are they using some sort of binary blob to do the Netflix part?<br>
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Someone had posted here that it runs Windows, but I think that was speculation.<br>
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Looks like an additional $100 over the cost of a Popcorn Hour or a Myka, in order to get Netflix.<br>
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Not all that unreasonable, especially if I could run my own Linux software and still have access to Netflix somehow.<br>
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I guess it's another "buy it and play with it to see what it can do" situation. Certainly wouldn't be the first time I have<br>
done that.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>IIRC, the roku deals with the netflix drm with a hardware chip, not software. I would imagine that if the boxee box has netflix and it runs linux, it is likely the same thing.</div>