CES Hands On: The Boxee Box

The Boxee Box has been a long time coming, and as we mentioned a few days ago, the Boxee Box is here at CES. The Boxee Box is not only on display, but is being demoed unlike most of D-Links other products. The experience is familiar to anyone who has used the Boxee software before. The biggest draw here seems to be that fact it makes content much easier to watch on a TV rather than hooking up your computer or laptop to the TV.

The Boxee Box’s features come at no real surprise, it has everything the software does. The most interesting part about the Boxee Box seems to be the remote. The top of the remote is made to be simple: a directional control with a center button and one button above and below that. The “bottom” of the remote is the interesting part, with a full QWERTY keyboard. Somewhat surprisingly, it is quite difficult to accidentally press buttons on the side opposite you are using. The keyboard it used mainly for searching for content it seems, so no updating Twitter or Facebook with the remote (though it can access media content your friends post on both sites), but at least it doesn’t require a USB keyboard like the Pop Box does.

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