this is exciting this is the dlink boxy
box okay so it's in the shape of a box
it is another media streamer but this one is actually pretty unique so let's
go over the overall outside of the box
of the boxy box and then we'll open it up and talk a little bit more about some
of the cool features so okay let's start with the front online movie shows and
videos for your TV okay pretty straightforward next we have the uh
inside content which we'll actually show you so there's no real need for that
here we go so the boxy Box gives you on demand TV hundreds of TV shows available
for free from your favorite networks ready to watch anytime huge movie
library from the web and watch new releases and stuning HD from premium
movie Services now Netflix is rumored to
be available for the boxy box within the
year or sometime next year I think it's within the year next you can play your
stuff too so you can access videos songs or pictures from your computer or home
network so if you have a home server or just a home computer you can just throw
up a file share play all of your files on your TV you can see what your friends
are watching through Facebook and Twitter and share your favorites and
give your wallet a break with tons of free entertainment from the internet
with no monthly fee so that's all pretty cool right let's go ahead and open this
up and find out what is inside the package for the
boxy first things first we have the unit itself which is
kind of unique looking
so why don't we we'll take this out but
then we're going to show all the accessories before we really get too far
into it there we are so it sticks out of your
table kind of like that looks like a cube embedded in the
table inside of the packaging is all
black cardboard here and I'm just sort of taking this out so there's that's
what was housing the boxy box itself and
then next we have a power adapter all
right we'll need that next we have an HDMI cable pretty standard HDMI cable
looks to be 6 ft long okay so that's to hook it up to your TV next we
have a GPL code
statement includes software code developed by Third parties including
software code subject to the general public license okay remember the boxy
does use open source software and there are going to be many third party apps in
fact there are already many open-source
apps available for the boxy which will allow you to access content that is not
necessarily officially supported so uh you didn't hear it from me but you heard
it somewhere so step one there's your easy setup
guide okay comes in a couple of different languages and finally a little
bit more documentation and then the
remote oo the remote's actually pretty nice oh that's really nice okay let's
have a look at the remote for a second
here look at that so we got a full keyboard on the remote including access
to lots of different special characters and whatnot we've got arrow keys space
this looks like a menu key of some sort and then on the other
side this is very very nice we've got a
play button as well as a menu button and then I can't tell where whether this is
going to be just a button or a touchpad
wow I'm actually like Flying Blind here I'm going to have to do some uh some
definite follow-up videos on this guy to show you guys all of the cool features
and uh to show it to you in action but just give me a moment and I will be
back so now let's have a look at the unit itself as you can see it's quite
small now this is actually Intel atom based so there's quite a bit of
processing power going on inside the boxy now now you can kind of see the
boxy logo there and then it says buy dink right under it I'm sure once it's
turned on and like I said I will be doing some more content about this
particular media player uh coming up shortly here's our power switch here on
the top well it's hard to tell what's sort of the top and what's the sides and
because it sits on the table like that so it's kind of challenging but on this
side we're going to find our sdmmc slot and then this is clearly the
back because that is where all of our connectivity is so there's our power
input as well as our analog audio out we
do have support for optical audio out as well as audio over the HDMI cable then
we have two USB ports as well as a lan
Port so on the bottom you have kind of a rubberized uh grippy bottom so that it's
not going to move around once you've placed it on next to your TV or whatever
else you want I mean you can use a monitor if you feel like it it doesn't actually matter but I want to talk a
little bit more about the software features so if you go into the
repository that's where you can access the apps and you can either
install apps individually depending on your preferences or there are some app
bundles that you can download and I'll be giving more details on this in my
follow-up videos and uh that's what's going to give you access to a lot of the
really cool content on the boxy another thing that the boxy does really well is
it sorts your media you can get all of your album art downloaded and uh the way
it organizes it is pretty unique so we'll be doing a video on that as well
mostly this is an unbox in and a stay
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