TechCruch spoke with Boxee’s Avner Ronen on the current status of Boxee, the new TV Dongle pre-order and smart TV’s.
Nothing ground breaking in this 3 minute interview. Pretty much status quo.
Link courtesy of TechCrunch
I recently purchased a Sony Vaio F-Series laptop (December 2011). Of course I installed Windows Home Server v1 (WHS) Console and set up a nightly backup, which went flawlessly and somewhat automatically due to Windows 7 64 built in settings.
For kicks, I thought I’d test out the WHS Computer Restore just to make sure the program would recognize the hardware and network drivers to perform the OS restoration should a dire situation come my way at some future time. To my surprise, WHS Restore did install what appeared to be the proper drivers for my 64bit Realtek PCIe GBE controller and hard drive drivers, but upon moving forward WHS Restore could not find my WHS via the network. Oh, boy.. Not even opening up the Console and pulling the WHS Restore files out of a recent back up would work. Which made no sense given they ARE the correct drivers!
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Ok, so I’m not doing the review myself like I typically do, but this guy did a pretty darn good job of it already.
Check out this review for a complete breakdown of the new Netflix DVD and Streaming plans that go int affect September 1st! For me, I’m going to stay with the DVD rental option, as the streaming options are too limited at the moment and paying for both just isn’t worth the money.
Even though I’ve not posted in a while, I thought I’d inform my followers that my server is being relocated and upgraded per BlueHost.com. They gave me little warning, but it’s nice to know just the same. Here’s the excerpt:
“Dear Bluehost Customer,
Bluehost has completed construction on our new data center expansion, complete with advanced temperature control, custom server racks and dozens of improvements designed to help us provide you with higher quality service. We will be moving all customer servers into the new center over the next few weeks.
The Bluehost System Administrators will physically move your server (containing the hosting account: pauljroberts.com) into the new data center between 9 PM, March 16th and 5 AM March 17th (MDT), during low traffic periods. We will work to ensure you experience as little downtime as possible and, to that end, we will take the opportunity to perform any needed hardware maintenance or upgrades. We expect the process to take 1 to 3 hours.”
There you have it. So it looks like things will shut down at 9 pm MDT and come back up by 5 am MDT. Hope it goes well. 
OK, I just got the tweet from boxee that the long awaited SP3 firmware update is going to publicly roll out later today! Yes, which should give us Vudu and fix a bunch of other bugs in the OS. But, Netflix will not roll out till later in January.
So, keep hitting that Update refresh button, kiddies.
As some of you may have learned, Adobe has come out with Flash Player 10.2 beta as a follow up to the final public release of Flash Player 10.1. The new Beta 10.2 was released on November 30, 2010. I did install the FireFox Add-in only as it’s my browser of choice and it’s needed to empower Boxee as well.
Remember, this new add-in for Fire Fox and Active X for IE are only for 32 bit browsers even if running them on a 64 bit environment. So, this will not work for 64 bit browsers, though Adobe does have a plug in just for 64 bit browsers called: Adobe Flash Player “Square.” Until the release of Square, Flash did not work with 64 bit browsers.
I wanted to wish everyone Happy Holidays!
Thank you all for stopping buy, reading, contributing and enjoying the time together this past year. Hope to have even more to discuss in 2011.
Enjoy the company of your friends and family this holiday Season….
Ok, so the guys and gals at Revision 3 like to have a little fun when they unbox products. Hey, who’s asking anyway. (No adult content in this video. Just innuendos and Boxee Box.)
Boxee Box Demo on TCTV. Here is Avner doing a demo of the new Boxee Box with the new UI as well.
