D-Link Boxee Box HD Network & Internet Media Streamer Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this is exciting this is the dlink boxy
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box okay so it's in the shape of a box
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it is another media streamer but this one is actually pretty unique so let's
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go over the overall outside of the box
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of the boxy box and then we'll open it up and talk a little bit more about some
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of the cool features so okay let's start with the front online movie shows and
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videos for your TV okay pretty straightforward next we have the uh
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inside content which we'll actually show you so there's no real need for that
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here we go so the boxy Box gives you on demand TV hundreds of TV shows available
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for free from your favorite networks ready to watch anytime huge movie
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library from the web and watch new releases and stuning HD from premium
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movie Services now Netflix is rumored to
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be available for the boxy box within the
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year or sometime next year I think it's within the year next you can play your
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stuff too so you can access videos songs or pictures from your computer or home
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network so if you have a home server or just a home computer you can just throw
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up a file share play all of your files on your TV you can see what your friends
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are watching through Facebook and Twitter and share your favorites and
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give your wallet a break with tons of free entertainment from the internet
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with no monthly fee so that's all pretty cool right let's go ahead and open this
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up and find out what is inside the package for the
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boxy first things first we have the unit itself which is
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kind of unique looking
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so why don't we we'll take this out but
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then we're going to show all the accessories before we really get too far
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into it there we are so it sticks out of your
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table kind of like that looks like a cube embedded in the
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table inside of the packaging is all
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black cardboard here and I'm just sort of taking this out so there's that's
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what was housing the boxy box itself and
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then next we have a power adapter all
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right we'll need that next we have an HDMI cable pretty standard HDMI cable
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looks to be 6 ft long okay so that's to hook it up to your TV next we
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have a GPL code
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statement includes software code developed by Third parties including
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software code subject to the general public license okay remember the boxy
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does use open source software and there are going to be many third party apps in
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fact there are already many open-source
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apps available for the boxy which will allow you to access content that is not
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necessarily officially supported so uh you didn't hear it from me but you heard
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it somewhere so step one there's your easy setup
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guide okay comes in a couple of different languages and finally a little
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bit more documentation and then the
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remote oo the remote's actually pretty nice oh that's really nice okay let's
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have a look at the remote for a second
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here look at that so we got a full keyboard on the remote including access
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to lots of different special characters and whatnot we've got arrow keys space
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this looks like a menu key of some sort and then on the other
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side this is very very nice we've got a
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play button as well as a menu button and then I can't tell where whether this is
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going to be just a button or a touchpad
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wow I'm actually like Flying Blind here I'm going to have to do some uh some
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definite follow-up videos on this guy to show you guys all of the cool features
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and uh to show it to you in action but just give me a moment and I will be
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back so now let's have a look at the unit itself as you can see it's quite
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small now this is actually Intel atom based so there's quite a bit of
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processing power going on inside the boxy now now you can kind of see the
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boxy logo there and then it says buy dink right under it I'm sure once it's
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turned on and like I said I will be doing some more content about this
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particular media player uh coming up shortly here's our power switch here on
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the top well it's hard to tell what's sort of the top and what's the sides and
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because it sits on the table like that so it's kind of challenging but on this
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side we're going to find our sdmmc slot and then this is clearly the
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back because that is where all of our connectivity is so there's our power
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input as well as our analog audio out we
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do have support for optical audio out as well as audio over the HDMI cable then
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we have two USB ports as well as a lan
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Port so on the bottom you have kind of a rubberized uh grippy bottom so that it's
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not going to move around once you've placed it on next to your TV or whatever
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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
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little bit more about the software features so if you go into the
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repository that's where you can access the apps and you can either
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install apps individually depending on your preferences or there are some app
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bundles that you can download and I'll be giving more details on this in my
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follow-up videos and uh that's what's going to give you access to a lot of the
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really cool content on the boxy another thing that the boxy does really well is
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it sorts your media you can get all of your album art downloaded and uh the way
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it organizes it is pretty unique so we'll be doing a video on that as well
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mostly this is an unbox in and a stay
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tuned message for all the coverage that we're going to do about this cool little
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