For example, during our testing of the box it would randomly fail to send audio over HDMI to our Panasonic TV.
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At times the software can feel quite buggy. However, audio support isn’t as good on this model as it is on the D-Link version, because for some unknown reason it doesn’t play ball with HD audio. For example, it’ll handle DivX, Xvid and HD MKV files without breaking a sweat.
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We also like the way the TV Show view gives you summaries of individual episodes of a series and lets you mark episodes as ‘Watched’ so you don’t lose track of which ones you’ve already seen and what you’ve left to view.Ĭodec is support is generally excellent too, and you’ll be hard pushed to find a video file that it won’t play. Zipping through movies by poster art is so much more satisfying than just browsing through lists of file names. Nevertheless, once everything has been catalogued, the media browsing experience is first rate. However, this can be a bit tiresome to carry out via the remote and we actually found it easier to rename the files on our NAS drive to something Boxee was more likely to recognise and simply run the scan again.
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You can then go in and manually do a search to match the file to a movie or TV show name.
Shows and movies not recognised by the cataloguing system are filed under ‘Unidentified’. However, it does help a lot if you stick to Boxee’s recommended filing system of using period marks to separate words in movie names and using the S0圎0x format for detailing individual shows in a TV series. This takes quite a while, especially with larger libraries, but it generally does a pretty good job of working out which file name relates to which show or movie. Once you’ve done this, you then tell it where your movies and TV shows are stored and it will automatically catalogue them. As a result, you constantly have to look down at the remote to make sure you’re pressing the right buttons.īefore you can start using the Iomega TV with Boxee you first need to create a Boxee log-in.
The main problem is that the four way control pad and the selection button in the middle are grouped together into one flat surface, so you can’t really tell by feel where the selection button is. The navigation side of the remote isn’t much better. We also find that the keyboard frequently misses or double-enters letters during typing. Sony’s similar remote for its Google TV product has a sensor that knows when you’re holding the keyboard part upright and automatically unlocks it, which is a much better solution. We find it annoying that you have to press the unlock button on the Qwerty side before you can start to type on it. The remote on the D-link box uses RF wireless, but this one relies on InfraRed, so it needs line of sight to work. However, this is only supported in certain apps, such as the web browser. Interestingly, the navigation buttons also double up as a touchpad, so you can move a cursor around onscreen just by gliding your thumb over its surface.
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Like the D-Link model, this one comes with a dual sided remote control that has a full Qwerty keyboard on one side and more standard navigation buttons on the other. This model does have a fan for cooling the main Intel Atom CPU, but it’s so quiet that it’s virtually silent. We had the version without the hard drive. Iomega currently offers three versions of this product: one with no hard drive, one with a 1TB hard drive and one with a 2TB hard drive. The Iomega TV doesn’t have Wi-Fi built-in, which is a tad bizarre, but Iomega includes a Wi-Fi USB dongle that you can connect up to the port on the rear of the unit. The original Boxee’s unusual shape made it difficult to house next to your other bits of AV kit.Ĭonnections are taken care of by an HDMI port along with digital and stereo phono audio outputs, a composite video connector, Ethernet jack and two USB ports (front and rear). However, if you just want to slide it into an AV rack next to the rest of your kit you’ll probably appreciate its more standard design compared to the radical styling of the original D-Link Boxee Box. It’s essentially a squat, rectangular box finished in a mixture of glossy and matt black plastic.
Unlike the original Boxee Box from D-Link, this one has a much more conventional design and can also work as a NAS device, so you can store your media on it locally and share it out to other devices on your network.Įxternally, the Iomega TV isn’t much to look at. The Iomega TV with Boxee is only the second product to hit the market running the Boxee media centre software, which started life on the PC.
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