If you live in an area where you can easily tune in over-the-air channels, the supplied Boxee antenna may work just fine but, if you face tuning challenges in your location, you should expect to add a separate antenna. During my next attempt, the combination of the Mohu antenna and the Boxee tuner pulled in the same channels I get when feeding the Mohu directly into my TV, and signal reliability was about the same (not perfect, but pretty good). The first re-scan resulted in zero channels I noticed that the RF input was very hot, so I unplugged everything and took a short break.
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So, I connected my Mohu Leaf antenna to the Boxee TV instead. I would've considered it a small miracle if the tiny Boxee antenna had tuned them all. Admittedly, my Colorado location is a challenging one for over-the-air HD: The closest towers are over 30 miles away and are scattered in different directions. With the supplied HD antenna, I was only able to tune in two major networks: the CW and CBS. The only part of the setup process that took some time for me was the tuning of TV channels. You have to create a Boxee account and register apps like Netflix and Pandora via your computer. You want to keep your laptop nearby or be prepared to go to your computer because several of the setup procedures must occur online.
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At this time, the iOS app also doesn't work within Netflix and VUDU, so I really saw no reason to use it.īasic setup of the Boxee TV was quick and easy: selecting a language, choosing a TV resolution (the box is set for 720p by default, but it detected that I had a 1080p TV and asked me if I wanted to change the resolution to match), and connecting to your network.
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Boxee also offers a free iOS control app, but it basically just mimics the remote layout and does not add a virtual keyboard. The buttons are almost completely flush with the remote, and there's no backlighting, which made it challenging to use the remote in the dark. The package includes a basic IR remote with just a few buttons: Home, Info, Return, Play/Pause, Enter, Navigation Arrows, and direct buttons for Netflix and VUDU. The Boxee TV supports playback of the most common file formats, but it doesn't have the level of format compatibility you got with the Boxee Box. The connection panel includes one HDMI output, an RF input to access the internal tuners, an Ethernet port for a wired network connection, and dual USB ports for playback of personal media files from a connected flash drive or USB server. It measures about 7 x 3.75 and 1.75 inches. Its physical shape is a bit larger than recent streaming media players I've used, like the Apple TV and Netgear NeoTV MAX. The rest of us can still access live TV we just can't record it.ĭ-Link is Boxee's hardware partner in manufacturing the Boxee TV.
Since I don't live in one of those areas, I could not test the DVR service. Unfortunately, "No Limits DVR" is currently still in beta and is only available in eight metro areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. Through this service, you can record programs shown on the major broadcast networks (the dual-tuner system lets you watch one show while recording another or record two shows simultaneously) you can also access your recordings on HTML5-compatible devices through the Boxee TV Web app on any browser. Boxee has also introduced a "No Limits DVR" service that, for $10/month after the first three months (which are free), allows you to store unlimited recordings in the cloud. Boxee even includes a tiny HD antenna in the package for pulling in free over-the-air signals. What you get instead are dual internal ATSC and Clear-QAM tuners to tune in broadcast TV channels like CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, and PBS. Boxee says that DLNA streaming is coming very soon in a major firmware update. There's currently no Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Facebook, Twitter, or Picasa/Flickr (to name a few), and the Boxee TV does not currently support personal media streaming from a networked server. The Boxee TV, in contrast, supports only 12 services: Netflix, VUDU, YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, Vimeo, MLB.TV, TED, WSJ Live, AccuWeather, Cloudee (for sharing and viewing personal videos), and File Browser (to play media files connected via USB). It also carried a higher price tag of about $180. The Boxee Box focused primarily on streaming services (offering over 400 apps) and playback of a wide variety of personal media files. The $99 Boxee TV is somewhat of a departure from the company's popular Boxee Box (which is no longer being produced). Explore more reviews in our HDTV Review section.
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