Comments on: Boxee Streaming Box Coming in 2010

By: rb

rb — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:42:16 +0000

To let all the doubters know that I got this week from Amazon.com a Sabrent pc to tv converter box/vga to video and s-video/with high resolution video . It was like $18. The video converter box is the size of a deck of cards, comes with a vga plug, av cable, s video cable, usb power supply cable, and user manual. I plugged the vga plug from my laptop to the box, the svideo and av from box to tv, and plug in the power cable. That’s it. I put the laptop on top of my 32inch screen tv and now any movies that I have downloaded on my laptop or movies I watch on hulu, etc play on my tv screen. Basically, anything on my laptop screen is on my tv screen when hooked up to the converter box. Just leave the plugs plugged into the box and tv so only takes about 5 seconds to then plug into laptop when I want to watch movie on the tv. Also, need to press your tvs tv/video button to switch to the video/dvd setting. A lot better than spending $200 on the Boxee box!!!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:53:17 +0000

Hulu won’t be worth it for much longer. Comcast bought out NBC, NBC is part owner of hulu. Comcast doesn’t want people to get free tv, so they’re working on a plan to make hulu a paid site. You order comcast for your house, and they’ll allow you to watch hulu.

By: starfire008

starfire008 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:02:30 +0000

I think a lot of people with PCs or laptops will simply choose a lower cost solution already available to them. If someone doesn’t want to mess with a computer or has computer phobia, they may find this device attractive.

By: starfire008

starfire008 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:59:12 +0000

Just as an FYI, it seems to be easier hooking up a laptop loaded with Windows Vista to your widescreen TV. Vista has the correct drivers for mirroring your laptop screen to the TV. I tried the same thing with a netbook loaded with Wimdows XP and it won’t work without having additional drivers installed. Since our laptop works good, I didn’t bother to investigate whether I could find the correct drivers for XP to mirror your screen to the TV. You may want to keep that in mind when you purchase a netbook for this purpose as many netbooks are loaded with XP (smaller OS footprint).

By: ChadCronin

ChadCronin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:10:38 +0000

I too never got the excitement about all these expensive boxes to watch stuff on tv. My monitor is large enough and if not I just use an HDMI cord to hook up the computer to the tv. So much cheaper

By: The Turnip

The Turnip — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:25:48 +0000

Ditto on the dopey shape!

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:54:44 +0000

Although it doesn’t do Hulu, I use my Xbox to stream all of my Netflix content.

And I agree with some of the other sentiments on this page, that I don’t really need to spend $200 on a streaming box when I can hook my laptop up to my TV. I do think that this could be useful technology if it were cheaply implemented into a DVD/Blu-Ray player.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:43:57 +0000

I am looking at getting a Net-top computer for the sole purpose of hooking it up to my TV.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:43:02 +0000

I doubt the $10 contraption will work. You will probably need a VGA converter which is in the $50-100 range depending on how fancy it is…I believe Boxee has freeware that can organize all of your streaming and such for you.

By: ppointer

ppointer — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:37:59 +0000

When someone adds a PCMCIA slot for my cable card, then we’ll be talking.