You adjust overscan to fit the Boxee desktop on your TV and that’s pretty much it. With my password reset, I was back to the Box. You have to hit Boxee’s site with a Mac, PC, smartphone, iPad or something else with a web browser to tell it you’ve forgotten your password. I already had a Boxee login but I couldn’t remember my password, which presented me with the first problem: there’s no way to recover your password from the Boxee Box itself. You can sign up via or on the Boxee Box itself. Thankfully Boxee doesn’t require any personal information, just a user name, email address and password. The Boxee Box requires a Boxee login to work. You’re better off just setting the screensaver to blank the screen rather than putting the Boxee Box to sleep. No wonder it wakes up so quickly, the box is still fully powered while asleep. While asleep the Boxee Box still draws 11.2W at the wall, virtually identical to its power draw while idle but awake. Remember the current version of the CE4100 reference platform doesn’t support Suspend to RAM. The excitement quickly faded though when I realized that sleep mode on the Boxee Box doesn’t actually save any power. Waking up from sleep is awesome though, the system is up and running within 1.5 seconds of hitting the menu button on the remote. I measured 65.1 seconds from full power off to the home screen, including automatically logging in via WiFi. I hope Boxee can make sure that Fancast isn't blocked, like it is for Google TV.Booting the Boxee Box takes longer than expected. It's unclear why Fancast seems to struggle to play its videos, but because it is the biggest repository of videos that Boxee has access to, the fact that it's not working properly hurts the platform a lot. Comcast's Fancast service, which is like Hulu, only works sporadically (works just fine on my Mac). Technically, as long as Boxee's browser and Flash plugin remain standard enough, it should be able to handle any of the major porn sites as well as any other online Flash video content. Unfortunately, YouPorn gave me video errors whenever I tried to play anything. Speaking of apps: YouPorn! Suicide girls! Reality Kings! These adult sites have specialized version of their page made for Boxee. It's still unclear how many apps will come to Boxee, but if they can lure companies like Spotify in, it'll be a nice bonus. There are also apps, like Pandora, which work in the background in multitasking mode. A lot of these are just random, sporadic episodes scattered around the web, made to get people hooked on the concept of a series, rather than a "last few shows" like you get from Hulu or Fancast. Random shows supposedly work, like Fringe on the WB site, but it crashed my Boxee box entirely, for some reason. I also like that it's a browser, and can play back Flash video from random places. Pop a card out of your camera and into Boxee to see the home videos you've just recorded. It plays over the network (SMB shares), and it plays via the SD card slot in its side. It is a fantastic box for playing back downloaded video, and most likely the most robust file streamer I've used. I really love that Boxee can handle any random video file you throw at it. Unlike other streaming boxes, you don't have to worry about which file format it supports, because it supports them all. Playing back local network video is extremely easy, even if there are occasional audio/video sync problems for the first few seconds. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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