here is the boxy protruding from the table that I've propped my television on
so I've got NHL game center running here I'm just watching some highlights cuz I
don't have a proper subscription to it uh Game Center is an example of one of
the apps that you can use with the boxy so the way I have it hooked up is quite
simple I have an Ethernet cable plugged into my power line Ethernet which goes
upstairs to my router I have an HDMI cable going into the TV for my audio and
video and then I have a power now one of
the first things I noticed about the boxy besides the cool glowing green logo
on the front is that the remote is
outstanding it's uh the response is very very Snappy and you've got okay so uh
yes I want to leave this video uh you've got what is basically a four-way
directional pad on the front with a play pause button as well as a back or menu
button so um then you flip it over to
the other side and you've got a full keyboard you can use the alt button here
uh to access things like the at sign pound sign exclamation mark numbers all
that good stuff that you might need if you're doing a little bit of data entry now you can also instead of using the
directional pad the enter button play pause Etc here you can also use these
buttons so there's your menu there's your directional Keys there's your enter
pretty cool okay so here let's just go
uh back so this is in the most popular apps uh this is not in the repos
repository so just looking through some of the ones that are included uh
remember that um Netflix will be coming
before the end of the year so here you go some of the cool
stuff that's available now with the subscription for
I mean NHL is the one that I care about but with the subscription for uh for NHL
you can actually go ahead and uh uh
watch games that are outside of your area and it's a pretty cool stuffff so
let's see what in Cartoon Network I haven't actually installed this app see
it's that simple application installed successfully takes just about a minute
well less than a minute and then you can go ahead and check out what's in the uh
the various apps so uh hit down to browse okay oh boo okay well we can at
least check out games uh this is going to be one of the disadvantages I guess
in Canada is that not all of the content is going to be available here but if you
really want to watch cartoons never fear because there are other options so if
you go into the repositories I have taken the LI Liberty
of installing uh the navx as well as fuz
the D's third party repository so I had
found some uh some cartoons on this one so this is all unsupported unofficial
boxy content now the overall setup process for the boxy including uh
plugging it in and uh running a firmware update at the beginning and then
uh configuring it to run on my network probably took
about uh gee maybe 10 minutes hey cool there's a
uh repository for XKCD who doesn't like
XKCD all kinds of neat stuff for this anyway the setup was very
straightforward and uh very very easy to use now if I could figure out how to
zoom in then that would probably be a good thing cuz it's pretty oh dear
Wiccan readers I understand modern wiccans are not usually all about the
curses and hexes but Darth Vader was recently converted as many is still
figuring it all out okay all right well let's go back let's find some of the
other uh apps in the repository here okay I'll I'll come back when I found
that uh cartoon one well I've got some good news and some bad news the uh the
bad news is that most of the repositories in the fuz the D as well as
the other uh repository app that I had
are not really all that applicable for
Canadians um the good news is that the boxy is still a very competent media
streamer across your local network so I'm just going to go ahead and uh show
you guys one of the things that I did set up so if I go into movies and the
navigation so intuitive actually if I go into movies and just click all it'll
actually just grab all the movies on my Home
Server oh no these aren't for my Home Server never mind uh oh I wanted to show
you the local content okay so there I go to files ha oh wait no
okay here we go files
movies aha so that just pulls all of the
cover art as well as the files from all the movies on my home server and then I
can also go to shows and it'll pull down all the shows from my home server so at
least in the meantime while we get some more content here in Canada it's uh
pretty effective for sorting through all of your video
files and playing
them it does play 1080p HD files over
the network which is pretty cool and uh
yeah so I mean it does it's not perfect
yet for Canadians but there is definitely a lot of potential here
thanks for checking out my video first
look at the dlink boxy box oh yeah I
wanted to show you guys one of the cool things I found in navx uh they have a
YouTube app and if I go to Canada I can
see Canadian YouTube content and then I can find the most disgusted from today
and and I will find my video about
whether or not a tinfoil hat blocks your brain waves from being read by the
government oh I clicked the wrong one oh I'm watching Justin Bieber not what I
meant to do no leave please aha the boxy
can uh close content that you didn't mean to watch very quickly excellent
excellent feature so there we go do tinfoil hats really block your brain
waves and it starts playing YouTube videos fairly quickly I'm even uploading
videos right now so that's how quickly it's able to buffer and start playing