The Boxee Box will be available in November. Available for preorder now! The device will sell for $200 through Boxee.tv or Amazon.com. Before it was a piece of hardware, Boxee was a software download that put Internet content on a TV screen. The Boxee Box, which was built by D-Link, is a media player that allows 1080p HD videos to be streamed to a TV from the Web or a local network. It can also run a browser on the TV, including Flash content.
The Boxee Box will be made by D-Link and will feature the Intel Atom CE4100 platform for graphics processing. According to NewTeeVee, this graphics decision was the main reason for a delayed release from its original release date of June 2010; it was supposed to feature the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform, but that chipset was abandoned due to lack of support for certain media formats. Along with the hardware, the software will be upgraded to 1.0, and will be HTML5 capable with webkit-based browsers. At a $199 price tag, and a severe lack of retail presence compared to its seemingly enormous competition, Boxee will certainly be fighting an uphill battle with this one