That's an undocumented feature. You have to toy with it.
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
'War Stories'
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-t - Jun 03, 2011 3:35:41 pm PDT #16879 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
omnis_audis - Jun 04, 2011 11:24:16 am PDT #16880 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Once again, I'm looking to 'cut the chord' of cable. It looks like Boxee Box has gone through a major update. I was curious if anyone on the boards is using it, and what they think of it. It costs more than a Roku, but seems to have more possibilities. Just curious of 1st hand experiences.
Gris - Jun 04, 2011 11:39:32 am PDT #16881 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I've never used a Boxee Box, but I generally find Boxee itself on a Mac to be rather disappointing. The plug-ins for Netflix and Pandora, etc, just don't work as well as I'd like them to, and I don't love the navigation system for my shared media.
What does the Boxee box do that Roku doesn't? Stream shared media? I haven't used a Roku since back when it was Netflix-only, but it looks pretty amazing right now.
Edit: I think if you got one of the high-end Rokus and combined it with this you could do pretty much everything the Boxee box can do: [link] It appears the Roku system has become much more hackable since I had one. If I didn't currently have both a Media PC and a Blu-Ray player that can stream video and netflix, I might have to buy one!
omnis_audis - Jun 04, 2011 4:00:13 pm PDT #16882 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
The one appealing thing Boxee does that Roku doesn't appear to do, is have a (limited) browser. So my thought being, I could always link to programs on the network sites.
Gris - Jun 04, 2011 5:22:51 pm PDT #16883 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Search for other private Roku channels. There's definitely some that let you view content from CBS, etc. Either box, you'll probably want to pay for Hulu plus.
Strix - Jun 05, 2011 6:34:27 am PDT #16884 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The thing (yes, highly technical term) I used for unzipping files has expired.
Anyone know where I can download a free program that does this, that's easy to use for a person who refers to it as a "zip thingie."
Jessica - Jun 05, 2011 6:37:38 am PDT #16885 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mac or PC? Most operating systems these days come with a simple zip/unzip utility.
Ginger - Jun 05, 2011 6:45:31 am PDT #16886 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm using 7-Zip [link] on Windows.
Strix - Jun 05, 2011 7:48:34 am PDT #16887 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
PC, and mine did too, but now it wants me to pay for it.
I'll look at that, Ginger: thanks.
Jesse - Jun 05, 2011 9:03:48 am PDT #16888 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Question: I've had my HP laptop for maybe four years, and it's started shutting down every couple of days, I guess because of some issue with the fan. (I can hear it revving for a while before it apparently overheats and shuts down.) It is worth trying to get it fixed, or is it just time for a new one? This is basically what happened with my last laptop, on about the same timeline. I don't have any other issues with the performance or anything.