okay well i promised some updates on the boxy box from d-link so if you haven't
seen it already this is the boxy it's a little uh
cube guy that sits preferably somewhere near your tv so
that you can stream media from the internet as well as from your home
network so i know i had complained initially about
some well a lot of the content being more for us
customers and not really much of it working in canada but what i was not
aware of at the time is that yeah that might may be true for
the repositories bearing in mind that the repositories that i was looking at
are primarily third-party apps okay but
that is actually not the case for a lot of the stuff under the shows
menu so uh here's a perfect example uh is
south park where it's listing all of the episodes
of south park and you can either access them oh and this is cool check this out
so it actually integrates the ones that you can access from the comedy network
with the ones that you have stored on your own local
server so check this out so you can play
via a local file apparently i have two copies of this episode by accident or
you can actually use the ad supported comedy network link
to stream it online so it goes ahead and
sorts all of your media which i don't have named in any particularly proper
way and uh and sorts it all according to the
season the episode the show and then
which here here's one i think that i actually don't have yeah so there you go
that's one i don't have on my home server so it gives you whatever options
you have available to watch that content which is pretty cool and boxy is
committed to doing updates as often as every week or two until they get the
canadian content situation down to uh down to the point
where they can actually filter out most of the stuff that's not
actually available in canada so i haven't actually tried any other ones
yet i just went with the south park example because i knew it would uh i
knew it would be a good example because of uh the fact that i have
a lot of the south park media on my home server but here we go why
don't we try something else why don't we try the apprentice a show i have heard
much about but never actually watched
now the loading times for the web content are
not ideal yet although i believe that is something that they're working on and
they're also working on the integrated browser to make it
to make it easier to go straight into full screen mode to play the media
instead of going to a browser where you uh where you actually use the boxy
controller to maximize to full screen and make any changes that you want to
so far this is what i'd consider pretty typical loading time for a show i am
running on a power line home network so
i am not on wi-fi in case you're wondering by the way the color of the tv
is just because i did white balance wrong and so it's showing up kind of bluey i
guess while we wait we can see my cats who are
playing in my christmas tree thanks guys that's really useful of you
i'm sure glad that you're there to uh destroy things and knock down the uh the
bobbles on the tree fortunately i got the unbreakable kind so i don't have to
worry too much about them you know getting glass all over the
floor
well here why don't i fix my white belt oh there we go hey hey global tv the
apprentice all right now i gotta find the remote which i put down i love the remote for
the boxy it's so awesome keyboard on one side
just general navigation on the other side it's awesome so what i'm going to
want to do when it's done searching for the video is i can actually use the the d-pad here
to move the mouse around and then i can i can manually maximize the movie myself
and watch it in full screen mode just like that
there we go so i just have to wait for it to buffer
and then it should start playing here we go
flexible mortgage uh-huh well we have one that lets you put extra money in
take it out anytime and skip a payment once a year it's our you're the boss
video quality is actually surprisingly good considering well
hold on are you sure you want to leave this video yeah i want to leave this video uh
video quality is actually surprisingly good given that you're streaming on the
internet but i guess compared to watching on your computer you're sitting
a lot further away from the tv so that helps a lot anyway so that i wanted to
show the shows part of the boxy menu and demonstrate
that that is content that is ready for canada so that's uh that's pretty cool i
don't know about movies actually but um
yeah here well since we're since we're working on this why don't we just like
do that okay so what movies do we have dragon
hunter legend of the hidden city march astronauts
other people's parties hitman heart
nfb app supporters so there it is it's a streamed movie i'm not going to wait for
this to load right now so i'll just let you guys know if it was a similar time
i'm gonna just turn the camera off for now
yeah okay that one didn't work for me and uh neither did project grizzly they
both sort of tried to load forever and didn't really work but uh they were both
hosted on the same site so maybe support's going to be improved for that
one in the upcoming firmware updates but this one worked really well and actually
this is a perfect example of uh
how this whole thing should work so it opens up extremely quickly
and it's ready to go just like that so i can
pause it as well oh can i fast forward even
oh i can skip ahead what about fast forward oh i can skip ahead a little bit
okay not sure what they're up to but apparently this is some kind of
psychological adventure movie yeah it's a psychological
adventure that breaks and distorts the rules of reality interesting
okay anyway thank you for checking out my video on i guess both the shows as
well as the movies tabs within the boxee box i think we had a look at apps
already as well as files files is excellent by the way
and uh oh yeah i guess i never really showed the home screen there you go
hey here you go it's going to show us some cool stuff that just kind of works so yeah youtube of course is uh
very well supported by the boxy so why don't we have a look at the angry birds
peace treaty and end on that note by the way i quite enjoyed angry birds for my
iphone it was excellent
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