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The most popular movies were slightly more obscure, although there were familiar titles, such as Smiley Face, His Girl Friday and Reefer Madness.

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Via the main menu suggestions, we also caught a free (and slightly edited) episode of Showtime's Episodes, which was as good looking as our satellite service's HD Showtime feed. A few other videos, like ones from the History Channel, banished us to browser mode, with no way out.

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Videos from Fancast fared much better, since they at least allowed us to go full screen. The one quirk about these videos was that everything was coming from different places. We found everything from Hell's Kitchen to 16 and Pregnant to How I Met Your Mother. That's right don't expect obscure items from foreign lands of 50 years ago - unless that's what you're looking for (although you might want to use the search).

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First, we flipped through popular TV shows, which were surprisingly current. TV shows and movies are easy to access via the main menu button. Thankfully, Boxee has a ton of other content to tap into. The main menu also features a rotating selection of suggested content. Between our 250-some Facebook friends and another 100 or so Twitter followers, we were only treated to maybe three videos over a 24-hour period - none of which were really worth the wait. Unless your friends love posting video, you will find very little use for this portion of the Boxee Box menu. This option integrates your Boxee activities with Facebook and Twitter. Since we planned to run the entire gamut, we started at the end, with Friends. During our testing, we saw option du jour selections, such as the brand new VUDU app (just added), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and a Tekzilla podcast. However, you can also go for broke, with one of the rotating selections featured on the lower half of the screen.

The Boxee Box's main menu features direct access to Friends, Watch Later, Shows, Movies, Apps, and Files. Once setup is completed, the world is your oyster - literally. It's easier (and quicker) to get to the good stuff by restarting the box. If your experience is anything like ours, the refresh isn't all that refreshing. Once you punch in those passwords, reboot the box. Facebook and Twitter integration need to be done through the computer, as does Netflix (when it becomes available). It's important to note that much of the Boxee Box's actual setup needs to be done via computer. Boxee then asks you what you prefer to watch: Mostly stuff from the web, mostly my own files, or the always popular 'I'm not sure.' A Boxee user account is needed, which basically consists of an email address and password. The reboot took about another 2 minutes, and then another prompt instructed us on sizing the screen.

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It took about seven seconds to get prompted to perform a software upgrade, which took approximately another 90 seconds over the wireless network. We do recommend clicking the 'show password' box, if you need to enter items like numbers and capital letters. Thankfully, the Boxee Box remote has its own keyboard (more on that later), which makes entering such items a breeze. In about 3 seconds, the Boxee found our wireless network, which is password-protected. The Box connected to our wireless network in seconds. Plan on getting that attention, too, since the flat side of the device is actually the top, as well as where the power button is located. Perhaps it streaked down from the heavens like a tiny meteor or Borg Cube and crashed into your AV cabinet? Whatever it is they were going for, the Boxee Box certainly looks different, so kudos to the design team on that. Actually, it looks like part of the Boxee Box is missing, but that design is definitely intentional - it seems to be meant to look like a cube that has embedded itself into whatever surface you put it on. Instead, it's a sort of a penta-zoid-allelogram. It's not a rectangle, a square or even a circle.

Should it and will it fly off retail shelves? Let's unbox this box and take a closer look.ДЄs mentioned, the Boxee Box is a design geek's dream. However, the bugs appear to have been fixed and the dust has now settled. The box itself - part of a new category of devices known as OTT ('Over the Top') boxes - has a funky design, an easy-to-use interface, and a host of entertainment possibilities.Дespite the dreamy set of features, initial reviews of the Boxee Box were less than enthusiastic.

Packing in the extremely popular (and free, at least on the PC) Boxee software into this latest entry into the streaming media hardware category has created a standalone streaming and media playback device to be reckoned with. D-Link got in just under the 2010 wire with its Boxee Box.