By contrast Apple TV lacks the USB/SD card functionality and is locked to iTunes-only content while the WD TV Live Hub baffled us all by not integrating WiFi.Īnother nice touch is the controller which on one side is a simple D-Pad with play/pause and back buttons and on the other features a full Qwerty keyboard. It is flexible with Ethernet, WiFi, HDMI, SPDIF and RCA Audio inputs and can accept media either over a network (a boon for NAS owners), via two USB ports on the back or a SD card slot on the top. It has built what looks like a cube with a corner sliced off and inside stuffed a whisper quiet Intel Atom based CE4100 chipset with enough horsepower to potentially do away with a dedicated media PC.
That aside, what D-Link has done with the Boxee Box is impressive. This is somewhat baffling considering the Boxee Box is essentially just a housing (an admittedly radical and stylish housing) for Boxee, a freely downloadable multimedia programme which first hit the public in June 2008. If Apple TV is beautiful but shallow, and Western Digital’s WD TV Live Hub comprehensive but complex, can D-Link’s long awaited Boxee Box strike a perfect balance of the two? Pretty much…įirst previewed way back in December 2009, this is one media player which has been an incredibly long time in the making.
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