#REPLACEMENT BOXEE BOX REMOTE TV#

I’ve had some reception problems with the WiFi on Roku’s in the past, and the Co-Star seems to have stronger WiFi reception than the Roku.

#REPLACEMENT BOXEE BOX REMOTE TV#

The WiFi signal and reception was excellent, even when I moved the box to a TV located on the opposite side of my house from where my router was. I’m also hearing that more content services will soon be coming to the Google TV platform, so it may be that more content for the box comes from Google rather than Vizio.ĭid you test the streaming services via WiFi or ethernet? How well did WiFi work?Īll of my testing was done via WiFi. I really can’t speculate, but I doubt it would be Blockbuster On Demand. Vizio told me that more content services will be added to the box before the end of the year, but aren’t hinting at what those services will be. What additional content services are coming to the box? Will it have Vudu and Blockbuster On Demand in the future? If you want to playback lots of formats from a local USB drive, the Co-Star device will handle just about all of them. The Co-Star has excellent video format and codec support, more than the Boxee Box and has pros/cons over Western Digital’s WD TV Live. How does it handle local content playback? Is it better than the Boxee Box? Vizio says their box is so robust that the processor can also support the playback of 3D content, although I haven’t tested that yet. IFixit took the box apart and says it is using a Marvell Armada 1500 1.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor, with just 4GB of flash memory to store everything for the OS and Google TV platform. What kind of chip is in the box and what processing power does it have? From what I have heard, it sounds like the Co-Star will be generally available in September. Vizio said they sold out of the original run of boxes made just for the pre-order, but said the box will soon be up for general availability. Vizio’s Co-Star device started to be delivered last week, to those who pre-ordered from. I’m also giving one of these boxes away, so go here to enter the drawing.ĭo you know when the next wave of Co-Star’s will be released?

So I’ve made a list of the questions, done some additional testing and have provided answers to them below. Last week, after I posted my review of Vizio’s new $99 Co-Star streaming box, I got a lot of questions from readers wanting me to comment on certain features of the box.

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