One day after officially announcing the D-Link Boxee Box, the networking company has another media player to talk about: The new D-Link Pebble is mainly for playback of all the media you already own, and the Boxee Box concentrates on playing media from every corner of the Internet, but both have a lot of overlap. Like the fact that they’re tiny compared with past players that were the size of DVD players, and neither includes built-in storage.
The $119.99 Pebble, which should be on sale early this year, is small, football-shaped, and shiny. It looks for media on Flash memory drives, network-attached storage, PCs on your network, and out on the Internet. Its graphical interface should make it easy to find your files for streaming, but details aren’t out on the all file types it will support. It connects via Ethernet, but there’s an extra option for an 802.11n dongle. Output is HDMI 3.1 or analog video and composite audio.
The Boxee Box by D-Link, on the other hand, goes for right angles and glowing greens. The design, by the same people behind the Xbox 360 and Alienware, was revealed last month at a Boxee event. It has most of the same connections plus an SD card slot and SPDIF audio. Of course, Boxee is all about the software/service for streaming video over the Internet. It will also come with a radio frequency remote control. Boxee partners include Pandora, Last.FM, and Suicide Girls. No price has been announced yet, but it should be on sale early this year as well.
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