Customer Reviews for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
The ONE box your TV needs! The Boxee Box from D-Link (DSM-380) is the ideal media player to transform your TV into a streaming home entertainment system. Experience everything the internet or your home media library has to offer, from your favorite TV shows and movies, to the latest Internet sensation on YouTube directly from your HDTV.
Listen to great music from sites like Pandora, last.fm, or NETFLIX. Or view your favourite photos from flickr, Picasa and Facebook. Share what you are playing with friends on the Boxee Box's integrated social network. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the Boxee Box from D-Link.
The Internet gives you the freedom to watch what you want, and the power to choose what you want to pay for. It's awesome. What's not awesome about the internet: no big screen, no HD, no home theatre system experience, no easy interface designed to sift through the mountains of TVs shows, Movies, and content available online. And the real killer: no remote . The Boxee DSM-380 brings the freedom of the Internet to your HDTV in stunning 1080p, Dolby Surround Sound, and has a slick interface to simplify everything and - wait for it, a remote to put it all at the tips of your fingers. Plus, say goodbye to hunting and pecking for letters on screen, the Boxee Box remote comes with a full QWERTY keypad - as soon as you start typing Boxee Box's autosearch function starts finding.
If it's available on the Internet, then you can probably watch it on your Boxee - there are more than 40,000 TV show episodes and movies currently available through Boxee. Plus, you can play personal content from your network or hard-drive.
Features
Double-sided remote control
HDMI out (HDCP, cable included)
Ethernet Port
Wireless 802.11n
2 USB 2.0 ports
Optical Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
Composite Audio Connectors
AC Power Connector
Setting up your Boxee Box is simple. Plug your Boxee Box into the wall, connect it to your TV's <http://www.thesource.ca/estore/category.aspx?language=en-ca&catalog=online&category=cables-hdmi_dvi">hdmi input and turn your Boxee Box on. Leave the computer and mouse on your desk. The Boxee Box instantly streams thousands of TV Shows and Movies from the Internet in glorious 1080p and Dolby Surround Sound - another in a long line of innovative home networking solutions from D-Link.
Boxee supports: Adobe Flash 10.1, FLV/On2 VP6 (FLV/FV4/M4V), H.264 AVC (TS/AVI/MKV/MOV/M2TS/MP4), VC-1 (TS/AVI/MKV/WMV), MPEG-1 (DAT/MPG/MPEG), MPEG-2 (MPG/MPEG/VOB/TS/TP/ISO/IFO), MPEG-4 (MP4/AVI/MOV), DivX 3/4/5/6 (AVI/MKV), Xvid (AVI/MKV), and WMV9 (WMV/ASF/DVR-MS).
Average Customer Rating:
(7 Reviews) 7
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6 out of 7(86%)reviewers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
Review 1 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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rainvibe
Location: Gatineau
Used for: less than 3 months
Expertise level: Professional
Age: 25-34
Next Purchase: Other Device
Best streamer
Date:November 18, 2012
Product Highlights: network steaming, original desing, full 1080p hd, usb sd lan wan
I tried something a bit cheaper at first because I didn't need to view online stuff and could care less about Netflix and all. Then I had to switch back to the Boxee Box, my original choice, as the cheaper option turned to be inappropriate. I needed to cut the cord between the PC and the TV to reduce the wires running around the room. The Boxee Box and my router are next to the TV whereas the PC is farther connecting WLAN to the router via the 5GHz channel. This leaves the 2.4 GHz channel free of interference for streaming which is used by the Boxee Box and also allows for a cable connection without any cable showing. This, simply put, just works. Beware of negative reviews dating back the original firmware and the noobs of this world not buying the right product for their needs. It can play any format of music, video and non raw picture files on my network without lag in the reading. Everything takes a little time to load, but once the reading is started its flawless even seeking in blu-ray movies. The music player sorts by Artists and Albums only, but as I organize my library by Genre and create equal playlists, the player will launch my playlist after a few seconds to load it up and has the option to shuffle and loop. As a photographer shooting in Nikon, I,m a bit sad it loads the NEF raw format of my pictures in a very clunky pixelized fashion, but any regular format is superb if you have an HD TV, that is. If you are looking for network streaming on any platform this is what you are looking for, if you are more a hard core web content seeker, look at Roku, Apple, Google/Sony TV sets, but this guy here is sticking with Boxee Box.
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Review 2 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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3
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Gertie
Location: NS
Not Impressed
Date:September 10, 2012
I am very disappointed with my new Boxee Box. I cannot get it to connect to my wireless network. I have to run a cable all through my house to connect. I even called the tech support did what they told me but still no improvement. I got it to watch netflix I'm sorry now I didn't buy another playstation as my son uses that with no problems at all and wouldn't have spent anymore money
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Review 3 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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Value for Money:
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Duber
Used for: less than 3 months
Expertise level: Professional
Age: 25-34
Top 10 Contributor
Intelligent Unit
Date:July 2, 2012
This is a smart little unit that will give you a full flavour of internet based option on your non-smart TV. My only complaint is the price. Considering how versatile blu-ray players are becoming on making transforming your TV into a smart unit and their competitive prices.
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Review 4 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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5
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Value for Money:
5
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5
Puddletimes
Location: Cariboo
Used for: less than 3 months
Expertise level: Beginner
Age: 45-54
Next Purchase: Other Device
Haven't had the full experience of using it yet!
Date:May 14, 2012
To begin with, had to phone Boxee to get onliine. They don't tell you that you have to download updates to get online. After getting the download & loading into Boxee things went smoothly setting up with my internet account & getting it to work. The first time I haven't had much play time with it.
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Review 5 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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Value for Money:
5
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5
tyson
Location: victoria
Used for: 6 months - year
Expertise level: Intermediate
Age: 18-24
Next Purchase: 3D HDTV
Store Expert
First day I had this I cancled my tv provider
Date:April 13, 2012
This thing does everything I can stream from my laptop to the boxee wirelessly also it collects all the tv shows readily available on the internet and puts it in a format similliar to netflix also it has every app you can think of including netflix. Makes apple tv look like garbage
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Review 6 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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Quality:
3
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Value for Money:
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Monkeyman2point0
Location: Nelson B.C.
Used for: less than 3 months
Expertise level: Beginner
Age: 25-34
Next Purchase: Other Device
Perfect for Netflix
Date:February 5, 2012
Once I moved my wifi sending modem close enough the boxxee worked fine. Its currently about 6 feet from the unit. there was no signal strength indicator. Netflix workss great though there is no genre search, you have to know what you are looking for, brouse doesn't work as well. some of the apps have worked and some have not. many of the movies in the boxxee library are available for watching with a subscription or rental fee. boxxee won't let you watch anything that isn't licenced. youtube has some movies for free but also some for rent. We liked the channels. there were many shows on discovery , history, space, and cbc that we have watched. I wonder how often these are updated. we are still figuring this boxxee thing out.the remote is kind of cool. the only thing I would change would be a light up keyboard and a very clear front and back. in the dark the remote feels pretty much the same both directions and the wrong buttons get pushed. I bought this unit on sale and I sure am glad. If i had paid full price I would have been dissapointed.
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Review 7 for D-LINK Boxee Box DSM-380
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DarthVanner
Location: Toronto
Used for: less than 3 months
Expertise level: Professional
Age: 45-54
Next Purchase: Digital Camera / Camcorder
Wait for Firmware Updates
Date:January 6, 2011
Product Highlights: Size, Easy to Setup, Design
I bought the Boxee Box for Netflix which may or may not arrive the end of January. I've owned a DSM-320 and currently have a DSM-750 Media Center Extender. The Boxee doesn't do Windows Media Center. Although it should work seamlessly it does have issues connecting to Windows Media Player upnp and D-Link Media Lounge upnp.
It does however with the proper set-up access Windows 7 SMB fileshares. To date the Boxee has not hung or crashed unlike both the other D-Link Media Extender products.
I hope D-Link gets it's act together and makes the Boxee Box an Apple TV killer.
It does however with the proper set-up access Windows 7 SMB fileshares. To date the Boxee has not hung or crashed unlike both the other D-Link Media Extender products.
I hope D-Link gets it's act together and makes the Boxee Box an Apple TV killer.
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