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The OSD for local media playback has also been enhancedĪnother area of enhancement is the addition of support for HFS formatted drives, seek functionality inside music playback, and the ability to filter local files by source. This change was made in order to improve consistency across the wide range of apps supported on the device, says Boxee. On the down side, the previous ability to adjust volume on the Boxee Box using its remote control in some, but not all, apps has been eliminated.

The Boxee Box’s enhanced web-playback OSDīoxee points out that the revamped OSD includes a new seek bar, which offers precise rewinding and fast-forwarding, along with minimized button count for greater ease-of-use. The screenshot below shows the new web-playback UI in action.

This was done in order to support an enhanced web playback OSD, which, according to Boxee, lets you see a bit more of what’s going on in the background, and frees up some room for various UI components to be positioned below the content area. Of note, videos viewed in the browser no longer automatically go to fullscreen mode. The Boxee browser’s new favorites function serves may purposes The Boxee browser has been made considerably more useful, thanks to the addition of favorites, history, and an enhanced on-screen display (OSD), as seen in the screenshots below. The Boxee Box now supports a total of 17 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Portugese, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, and Polish the device currently is being sold in 34 countries. If all that leaves you feeling breathless, you’re not alone!Īnother not-so-obvious addition to v1.1 is more UI languages. Plus, you’ve got the Apps menu, which currently offers 189 apps grouped in video, music, and photos categories. In addition, you can always use Search to find what you want.

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And the Boxee Box still lacks Hulu Plus and Amazon VOD.ĭespite the greater orientation toward channels, however, movies and shows can still be viewed as one long list, sorted alphabetically or by popularity.

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Also, Crackle’s movies aren’t available through a Crackle movie channel, in contrast to the Roku player’s Crackle video channel, which offers both shows and movies. Notably missing is a Netflix channel, nor is it included in the search function instead, you have to run the Boxee Box’s Netflix app.

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That issue largely goes a way now, thanks to v1.1’s greatly expanded availability of content provider Channels for movies and shows.Ĭurrently, the Boxee Box’s Channels include:

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One quibble I had with the Boxee Box prior to this release was the difficulty of sorting out free or ad-supported movies and shows, from among the thousands of Vudu’s PPV titles that populate the Movies and Shows areas and are returned in a search. While there will be numerous mostly unseen fixes, changes, and enhancements under the hood, here’s a run-down of the more noticeable improvements… The new firmware (numbered 1.6) will be pushed out to users’ Boxee Boxes gradually over the next 48 hours, according to Boxee VP of marketing Andrew Kippen. The new v1.1 release adds a variety of content channels for both movies and shows, enhances the device’s browser functionality, improves the consistency of its user interface, and squashes numerous bugs.

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Boxee released the second major update to the D-Link Boxee Box’s firmware today.