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okay well i promised some updates on the boxy box from d-link so if you haven't

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seen it already this is the boxy it's a little uh

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cube guy that sits preferably somewhere near your tv so

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that you can stream media from the internet as well as from your home

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network so i know i had complained initially about

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some well a lot of the content being more for us

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customers and not really much of it working in canada but what i was not

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aware of at the time is that yeah that might may be true for

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the repositories bearing in mind that the repositories that i was looking at

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are primarily third-party apps okay but

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that is actually not the case for a lot of the stuff under the shows

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menu so uh here's a perfect example uh is

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south park where it's listing all of the episodes

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of south park and you can either access them oh and this is cool check this out

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so it actually integrates the ones that you can access from the comedy network

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with the ones that you have stored on your own local

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server so check this out so you can play

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via a local file apparently i have two copies of this episode by accident or

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you can actually use the ad supported comedy network link

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to stream it online so it goes ahead and

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sorts all of your media which i don't have named in any particularly proper

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way and uh and sorts it all according to the

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season the episode the show and then

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which here here's one i think that i actually don't have yeah so there you go

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that's one i don't have on my home server so it gives you whatever options

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you have available to watch that content which is pretty cool and boxy is

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committed to doing updates as often as every week or two until they get the

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canadian content situation down to uh down to the point

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where they can actually filter out most of the stuff that's not

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actually available in canada so i haven't actually tried any other ones

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yet i just went with the south park example because i knew it would uh i

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knew it would be a good example because of uh the fact that i have

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a lot of the south park media on my home server but here we go why

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don't we try something else why don't we try the apprentice a show i have heard

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much about but never actually watched

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now the loading times for the web content are

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not ideal yet although i believe that is something that they're working on and

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they're also working on the integrated browser to make it

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to make it easier to go straight into full screen mode to play the media

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instead of going to a browser where you uh where you actually use the boxy

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controller to maximize to full screen and make any changes that you want to

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so far this is what i'd consider pretty typical loading time for a show i am

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running on a power line home network so

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i am not on wi-fi in case you're wondering by the way the color of the tv

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is just because i did white balance wrong and so it's showing up kind of bluey i

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guess while we wait we can see my cats who are

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playing in my christmas tree thanks guys that's really useful of you

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i'm sure glad that you're there to uh destroy things and knock down the uh the

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bobbles on the tree fortunately i got the unbreakable kind so i don't have to

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worry too much about them you know getting glass all over the

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floor

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well here why don't i fix my white belt oh there we go hey hey global tv the

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apprentice all right now i gotta find the remote which i put down i love the remote for

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the boxy it's so awesome keyboard on one side

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just general navigation on the other side it's awesome so what i'm going to

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want to do when it's done searching for the video is i can actually use the the d-pad here

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to move the mouse around and then i can i can manually maximize the movie myself

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and watch it in full screen mode just like that

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there we go so i just have to wait for it to buffer

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and then it should start playing here we go

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flexible mortgage uh-huh well we have one that lets you put extra money in

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take it out anytime and skip a payment once a year it's our you're the boss

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video quality is actually surprisingly good considering well

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hold on are you sure you want to leave this video yeah i want to leave this video uh

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video quality is actually surprisingly good given that you're streaming on the

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internet but i guess compared to watching on your computer you're sitting

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a lot further away from the tv so that helps a lot anyway so that i wanted to

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show the shows part of the boxy menu and demonstrate

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that that is content that is ready for canada so that's uh that's pretty cool i

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don't know about movies actually but um

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yeah here well since we're since we're working on this why don't we just like

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do that okay so what movies do we have dragon

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hunter legend of the hidden city march astronauts

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other people's parties hitman heart

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nfb app supporters so there it is it's a streamed movie i'm not going to wait for

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this to load right now so i'll just let you guys know if it was a similar time

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i'm gonna just turn the camera off for now

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yeah okay that one didn't work for me and uh neither did project grizzly they

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both sort of tried to load forever and didn't really work but uh they were both

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hosted on the same site so maybe support's going to be improved for that

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one in the upcoming firmware updates but this one worked really well and actually

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this is a perfect example of uh

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how this whole thing should work so it opens up extremely quickly

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and it's ready to go just like that so i can

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pause it as well oh can i fast forward even

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oh i can skip ahead what about fast forward oh i can skip ahead a little bit

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okay not sure what they're up to but apparently this is some kind of

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psychological adventure movie yeah it's a psychological

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adventure that breaks and distorts the rules of reality interesting

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okay anyway thank you for checking out my video on i guess both the shows as

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well as the movies tabs within the boxee box i think we had a look at apps

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already as well as files files is excellent by the way

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and uh oh yeah i guess i never really showed the home screen there you go

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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

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very well supported by the boxy so why don't we have a look at the angry birds

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peace treaty and end on that note by the way i quite enjoyed angry birds for my

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iphone it was excellent

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