Vulkano to run Boxee? Could this be the ultimate Boxee Box?

**Slayher** · July 27th, 2010, 10:48 PM

It's available for pre-order today, ships on August 10th.
I noticed Engadget did a hands on and here's a quote from their article.

"Other additions include an OS X client, MPEG-4 support plus plans for downloadable apps like Boxee and an open SDK for developers."

It essentially does all of the following:

HD placeshifter – Allows you to view 720p high definition streams of your home Cable TV connection and home video library over the internet.
DVR – Plug in your cable box or other TV source and you have the typical DVR functions of recording and playing TV.
Internet TV – Right not its YouTube for online video and CinemaNow for paid movies. In the works are many other web TV services including Boxee and Netflix.
Apps – The device should also allow you to play on Twitter and Facebook as well as do a lot of other stuff like play games and check the weather through third-party apps.
Live Broadcast - It can even broadcast video from your home live across the internet.
Home Network Media – Access and share video and media across your home network wired or wirelessly.

Before anybody gets too excited, this is the same company that brought us the HAVA, they're known for writing checks their ass can't cash.

I heard they also hired BP's Photoshop guy to design their GUI.

Here's probably the best place to read what they claim this thing will be capable of.

**DPK** · July 27th, 2010, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by Slayher

I heard they also hired BP's Photoshop guy to design their GUI.

lol, yeah the gui on this thing is pretty abysmal. Not that impressed.

**darcilicious** · July 27th, 2010, 11:43 PM

Before anybody gets too excited, this is the same company that brought us the HAVA, they're known for writing checks their ass can't cash.

Hahahahaha, well put

(We STILL don't have a Hava Player on the iPhone over 3g !!!! )

However, if it ends up running Boxee, I just might have to get one

Boxee + builtin PVR will be just too much to resist

**Mevi** · July 28th, 2010, 04:37 AM

Cables..... lots and lots of phono cables.

**uncle hammy** · July 28th, 2010, 05:52 AM

Monsoon describe the DVR feature as being akin to TiVo with a recommendation engine that records your favorite TV for you. The typical DVR features of pausing and rewinding live TV are also present.

It doesn’t come with an internal tuner so you will need to hook it up to your cable box or other TV source. Lacking a tuner will mean that you probably won’t be able to record and play different TV stations at the same time.

Yeah, now that's some good planning. A DVR with no tuner, that can only do one thing at a time.

**judgeschambers** · July 28th, 2010, 06:20 AM

Links

Main Site: http://www.myhava.com/

Vulkano site: http://myvulkano.com/products.html

Pretty cool, but like the popbox and others, their own site does not really give a lot of info (hardware and OS), interface demos, in use demos etc. And like those other boxes, they are ready to take your money up front! Gotta luv it.

Though it looks promising and I'd get one if boxee ran on it, I'm skeptical until I see a real world demo.