Boxee Box firmware update 1.0.2.16619 (released Dec 13th)

[Feron]

I got my first 1080P HDTV in 2005. I would not want to downgrade to 720P for everything. Of course many people on this forum and the A/V forums are not representative of the masses. Most people are fine with SD and their DVDs. or probably even think they are watching HD on their iPhone or iPod.

Apple's 720p decision was likely a matter of user experience - smaller payloads make less wait time/less likelihood of buffering/less stuttering & makes a happier user - that and most people can't even really see much of a difference between the two.

That said, back to the 'topic', I agree about the .9 ui, much better and friendlier really, clutter or no.

[svassall]

I've just purchased the Boxee box, and managed to avoid the earlier firmware and only used the new firmware. I was purchased the box with some trepidation, was prepared for a poor experience, and would consider returning the box in event it did not perform as advertised....

The experience has exceeded my expectations by miles, the box does exactly what it says, it plays back all my content (no other media player would come close), it makes access to local and online content accessible to my non-techie other half, the user interface is simple let comprehensive, the hardware delivers frame perfect movie playback. In short I love it!

The company, and the dev team have responded superbly to the initial challenges and disappointed users, they have communicated fully, and openly and delivered two firmware updates in just over a month. I think they should be commended. I am happy to keep the box and support this type of company with my custom, and future purchases.

Just thought it should be said.

Thank you Boxee.

[vidswaps]

You are wrong in that assumption, I am mostly interested in making a large library easily accessible for the rest of my family; this is the challenge for Boxee, to make both type of users happy.

I am sorry to say this,but you don't need the Boxee Box do this.
You could have saved a LOT of money by using several of the other media players currently available on the market if you just wanted to play,and make
your large library easily accessible.
Just my opinion.

[PhatPhreddy]

So, until my family can easily go to legal online content, select a show, and have it go automatically to full screen thee boxee box will hold little value to us. And I expect that will be true for the "average" (read not people reading this forum).

While that may be something you can think of in your geographical area its a pipe dream to many of us around the world. These sites are simply not open to us and even if they were our net quality is hit and miss.

Boxee is being sold globally.. And that means you need a global mindset and user experience.. Cluttering a box with many icons for content that we cannot stream, simply makes many parts of the box look broken. People need to stop thinking with a purely n American mindset if they sell a product around the world.

Yes it is a complex cake they are baking.. and Boxee appear to be doing a good job of trying to solve this, but ultimately the way to make it look right and work for the user is to allow the user to turn on and off things they dont want. Giving me icons for broken stuff makes the user experience broken, not giving you icons for stuff you can access limits the boxes appeal to you. Hence user customization is the solution.

[vidswaps]

you would be wrong. most of the online stuff is garbage as has been noted numerous times in the forum threads. the local stuff is the key as even avner has acknowledged.

Like I said before if you JUST want to play local stuff you can do that MUCH cheaper with several of the other media players currently available on the market!

[PhatPhreddy]

Like I said before if you JUST want to play local stuff you can do that MUCH cheaper with several of the other media players currently available on the market!

What media player does this, yet does it with a slick UI with cover art, meta data, etc.. Including wifi N for HD Streaming and a NAS to host files on my network ??

[vtxrider]

This is already marked as fixed for the next update, due before the end of the year.

Man, do you ever get tired of repeating yourself. You must have some serious patience as I would have lost it some time ago. There should be a large red banner at the top of the forum telling everyone they have to read the bug log before posting, that would do away with half the posts at least.

[vtxrider]

can u tell us what is with other language, because iam a german user and many german people have the boxxee box and dont understand english ...

Als ich in Deutschland in den 80er Jahren lebte, lernten die meisten Deutschen Englisch in der Schule. hat das sich geändert?
in the 80' they used to teach English in school, has that changed?

[useboxee]

Just to check: have you submitted this as a bug at http://jira.boxee.tv ?

The only one I can find that might even be remotely related is this one: http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-6759

Submitting it as a bug is a good way to get the issue noticed and hopefully resolved.

it's actually a common issue. If you search rmvb on this forum. There are several complaints already. I wish I found this forum before I made the purchase. I am hoping it gets fixed before my deadline is up for return.

[Nall]

Als ich in Deutschland in den 80er Jahren lebte, lernten die meisten Deutschen Englisch in der Schule. hat das sich geändert?
in the 80' they used to teach English in school, has that changed?

This isn't a developer community, you are expecting far too much if you think the average user is going to read through a bug log before posting about an issue. I mean this isn't a beta it's a retail product.