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Move Over BoxeeBox, Here Comes PopBox
DeviceGuru writes "Following closely on the heels of the December announcement of D-Link's BoxeeBox, Syabas Technology today said it will ship the PopBox, a $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box (STB) in March. Both new gadgets have the potential to give Roku's popular STB a run for its money. All three boxes can deliver a range of Internet-based A/V streaming and social networking services to consumers' TVs. Like Roku's digital video player STB, the PopBox will include Netflix on-demand video streaming when it first ships. D-Link, meanwhile, is rumored to be scrambling to add Netflix streaming support to its BoxeeBox device as well, prior to inaugural shipments of that device. All three run embedded Linux OSes, and all are expected to sell for less than $200."
'nuff said (though where's the tag?)
One that hath name thou can not otter
Have you ever used XBMC
Are you serious? XBMC has the worst, most retarded, most un-intuitive UI of any program I have used in a long time. I installed it and ran it and I thought, "Well here's a decent looking program." and then about 10 seconds later I started smashing things. And then about 2 hours later I figured it out with the help of a bunch of web HOWTOs. And it's not like I'm a moron. And it's not like there's just one little tiny annoying thing, the entire setup is wrong. From the system settings, to the library interface, it's just plain wrong. This isn't a case of different strokes, it's wrong on an absolute scale. I think the backend engine is probably decent -- it has some nice features, but whoever designed that interface has their head screwed on sideways or something.