[mythtv-users] Thoughts on the upcoming Boxee Box as a possible frontend?

Thomas Mashos tgm4883 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 17:15:21 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 09:45:54 am Matt Emmott wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >
> > snip
> >
> > > I was considering buying a Boxee box, but it doesn't look like it would
> > > give me anything I can't get with Myth and PlayON
> > > now, except a strange-looking box in my LR.
> >
> > It will give you native Netflix without the need for Windows or PlayOn.
>
> So, like the Roku box, it runs Linux but can get Netflix? Are they using
> some sort of binary blob to do the Netflix part?
>
> Someone had posted here that it runs Windows, but I think that was
> speculation.
>
> Looks like an additional $100 over the cost of a Popcorn Hour or a Myka, in
> order to get Netflix.
>
> Not all that unreasonable, especially if I could run my own Linux software
> and still have access to Netflix somehow.
>
> I guess it's another "buy it and play with it to see what it can do"
> situation. Certainly wouldn't be the first time I have
> done that.
>
>
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IIRC, the roku deals with the netflix drm with a hardware chip, not
software. I would imagine that if the boxee box has netflix and it runs
linux, it is likely the same thing.
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