How do you use Boxee?

[RobertBasil]

I use Boxee on a Mac Mini dedicated media center hooked up to my flat screen TV in my living room.

[xain09]

Same here. MacMini + Flatscreen.

[marcel]

nice one..:)

[NuclearPeon]

I recently went out and spent $600 on a pretty awesome system for Boxee.

1 TB Harddrive
8 Ch surround sound onboard
Wireless card
nVidia 8200 onboard
Micro ATX box
3-core AMD processor

Can't wait until it's fully functional.

[agentlame]

None of the above.

I have Boxee fullscreen on at TV that is set-up as a second display, and then use my primary display for normal computing.

[RobertBasil]

None of the above.

I have Boxee fullscreen on at TV that is set-up as a second display, and then use my primary display for normal computing.

So you use Boxee on a computer that you also use for normal computing correct? ;)

[hcosta]

Hi,

I'm using a dedicated system with boxee on ubuntu:

Asus P5E-VM HDMI ( http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=584&l4=0&model=1912&modelmenu=1 )
Intel Dual Core 1.8Ghz
2x 500Mb Samsung HD (ultra quiet!)
NOX Media case with iMON remote ( http://www.nox-xtreme.com/media.htm )
3 years old 32" LCD Flat TV ( connected via DVI )

I'm pretty happy with my box, fast, silent, and plays everything up tp 1080p.

:)

[perrin21]

OSX Leopard
Efi-X Efi Emulation
2.83 Ghz Core Quad Processor
8GB Ram
Sparkle 8800GT 512MB Silent GPU
128GB SSD will be extended with more ssd drives in future
RME HDSPe AIO Sound (Due out next Month)
Buffalo 8X Blu Ray (not yet supported in osx)
Silenx Silent PSU
Origin AE S21T Touchscreen case
Apple Wireless bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse
Apple Remote
Hourly Backups to external drive via time machine.

Its Still a work in progress but will be outputting to dual displays, touchscreen on facia and 58in plasma .

Should be complete within 1 month.

[bigfatdummy]

Currently I have my boxee computer at my office. I have it connected to a 4 port IOGear KVM switch and a 19" monitor (other 3 systems are servers). I use the boxee system only for boxee. I play music, videos, & dvds while I am at work. Eventually, I plan to move the system to my home and connect it to my 50" LG. Like some of the others above, I purchased a system to use only with boxee. So far, I have been very pleased with the performance of both the system and boxee software.

System::
HP Pavilion Slimline s3521p
Ubuntu 8.04
AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core Processor 5200
4 GB Memory
500 GB HD
DVD Burner (Need to upgrade to a bluray)
Built in Wireless
Nvidia GeForce 6150 Se Graphics
Size: 4" (Tall) X 11" (Wide) X 13" (Deep)

I really like the slimline size for use as a media server. The box is maybe 1" taller than a dvd player when laid on its side.

[belovedmonster]

I'm just testing it on an old PC at the moment, so I clicked what I am going to use it for when its finished. ;)

[keith]

My Main setup is a MacMini 2ghz hooked into a Panasonic PT-AE900u projector w/ a 100" screen in my living room. But I do ocassionally use Boxee on my iMac in the bedroom for playback as well.
I have half a dozen raid setups in my house as well with total storage over 10TB, majority of it being used for x264 HD media.

Boxee just works.

[RobertBasil]

My Main setup is a MacMini 2ghz hooked into a Panasonic PT-AE900u projector w/ a 100" screen in my living room. But I do ocassionally use Boxee on my iMac in the bedroom for playback as well.
I have half a dozen raid setups in my house as well with total storage over 10TB, majority of it being used for x264 HD media.

Boxee just works.

100" screen? 10tb of storage? :eek:

I thought my 60" flatscreen and 4tb of storage was a lot.

I'll have to run it by my wife, but do you need a roomate? I don't eat much! :D

[NPerez]

i've used it on my 32" SDTV (older sony trinitron), but honestly, the fonts aren't so readable on there, so i usually stick to my laptop.

i'm going to wait and see if the skin is revised since this has been discussed before, but if not, i'll probably make a skin geared toward SDTV usage. seems like quite a bit of work though, so that'll be rather far down the line if it happens

[agentlame]

So you use Boxee on a computer that you also use for normal computing correct? ;)

Fair enough. I may have read into it, a bit.

I thought it meant: Some times you Boxee, sometimes you 'compute' (read: browse digg). I use them simultaneously.

[perrin21]

OSX Leopard
Efi-X Efi Emulation
2.83 Ghz Core Quad Processor
8GB Ram
Sparkle 8800GT 512MB Silent GPU
128GB SSD will be extended with more ssd drives in future
RME HDSPe AIO Sound (Due out next Month)
Buffalo 8X Blu Ray (not yet supported in osx)
Silenx Silent PSU
Origin AE S21T Touchscreen case
Apple Wireless bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse
Apple Remote
Hourly Backups to external drive via time machine.

Its Still a work in progress but will be outputting to dual displays, touchscreen on facia and 58in plasma .

Should be complete within 1 month.

Here is a video of it now in action. http://gallery.me.com/markandclaire1#100029 there are also some photo's in the galery. Let me know what you think?

[ran]

I'm testing it on my Mac at the moment.