Iomega Corporation (later LenovoEMC ) was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah , United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. Formerly a public company, it was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2008, and then by Lenovo , which rebranded the product line as LenovoEMC, until discontinuation in 2018.
51-490: Boxee Box by D-Link (officially " D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380 ") is a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on 10 November 2010. Designed to easily bring Internet television and other video to the television via Boxee 's software, it comes pre-installed with Boxee media center software. The hardware is based on the Intel CE4110 system-on-a-chip platform (that has
102-623: A 1.2 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 integrated graphics processor), 1 GB of RAM , and 1 GB of NAND Flash Memory . The DM-380 features an HDMI port (version 1.3), optical digital audio ( S/PDIF ) out, an RCA connector for analog stereo audio , two USB ports, an SD card slot, wired 100BASE-TX Ethernet, and built-in 2.4 GHz 802.11n WiFi. The Live TV dongle, which started shipping in February 2012, enables users to watch digital OTA or Clear QAM cable television channels with EPG . The Boxee Box also ships with
153-403: A SATA 3 controller capable of moving data at 6 gigabits per second. The HDMI-out function enabled monitoring live feeds from surveillance cameras. The unit can be set up and managed without a PC using an external display, keyboard, and mouse. The 400d is LenovoEMC's first product sold with its LifeLine 4.1 software, which added functions such as a domain mode, enhanced Active Directory support and
204-491: A closed source , binary-only, program called " bxflplayer ", which was used to load Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight proprietary plugins. This program communicated with the main Boxee process via shared memory and rendered the video onto screen. By using this approach, it was possible for Boxee not only to play Flash Video and Silverlight content that was protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) but also allowed for
255-420: A 1.2 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 Integrated graphics processor), 1 GB of RAM, and 1 GB of NAND Flash Memory. Iomega TV with Boxee features audio / video output ports for HDMI (version 1.3), optical and coaxial digital audio (S/PDIF) connectors, and RCA connector for analog stereo audio, two USB ports, wired 1 Gbit/s Ethernet, and built-in 802.11n WiFi. The Iomega TV with Boxee also shipped with
306-465: A dedicated set-top box (hardware) called " Boxee Box by D-Link" in cooperation with D-Link which was the first " Powered by Boxee " branded device to be announced and launched, as well as a similar media player device called "Iomega TV with Boxee" (available in the UK & Europe) in cooperation with Iomega and a 46" high-definition television from ViewSonic with integrated Boxee software. Boxee
357-665: A hard-drive or network-share, and also ISO and IMG DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives. It also offered software upscaling/upconverting of all DVD-Video movies when outputting them to an HDTV in 720p, 1080i or 1080p. The Music Library was another key feature of Boxee. It automatically organized the user's music collection by information stored in the music files ID meta tags , such as title, artist, album, genre and popularity. Boxee featured on-the-fly audio frequency resampling , gapless playback , crossfading , ReplayGain , cue sheet and Ogg Chapter support. Boxee handled all common digital picture/image formats with
408-665: A hub, to bring internet television and other video to the television via Boxee's software, it came pre-installed with Boxee media center software and the hardware was based on Intel CE4110 system-on-a-chip platform (that has a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 Integrated graphics processor), 1 GB of RAM , and 1 GB of NAND Flash Memory . The DSM-380 featured output ports for HDMI (version 1.3), optical digital audio (S/PDIF) connector, and RCA connector for analog stereo audio , two USB ports, an SD card slot, wired 100 Mbit/s ( 100BASE-T ) Ethernet , and built-in 802.11n WiFi. The Boxee Box also shipped with
459-403: A local source, (except those protected by those with DRM encryption). It could decode these in software, or optionally pass-through AC3 / DTS audio from movies directly to S/PDIF output to an external audio amplifier or receiver for decoding on that device. The Video Library , one of the Boxee metadata databases, was a key feature of Boxee. It allowed for the automatic organization of
510-688: A more robust SDK. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator was included for centralized security management. All THINK-branded systems from Lenovo pre-installed with Windows 8.1 included LenovoEMC Storage Connector in order make discovery and set-up of the 400d and other LenovoEMC NAS devices smoother. At the 2014 International CES, LenovoEMC announced the Lenovo Beacon Home Cloud Centre. The Beacon is a storage device that allows remote sharing of data such as music, pictures, and video. The Beacon allows music and video streaming to multiple devices. Android phones and tablets can be used to control
561-463: A range of products intended to compete with and ultimately replace the 3.5" floppy disk , notably the Zip drive . Initial Iomega products connected to a computer via SCSI or parallel port ; later models used USB and FireWire (1994). The 400d was a multi-bay network-attached storage (NAS) device. The 400d was powered by an Intel Atom processor running at 2.13 gigahertz, had 2 gigabytes of RAM, and
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#1732801210484612-432: A short period, which failure was commonly referred to as the "click of death." This problem, combined with competition from CD-RW drives, caused Zip drive sales to decline dramatically, even after introducing larger 250MB and 750MB versions. Iomega eventually launched a CD-RW drive. Without the revenue from its proprietary storage disks and drives, Iomega's sales and profits declined considerably. Iomega's stock price, which
663-474: A similar small two-sided RF remote control with 4-way D-pad navigation and full a QWERTY keypad as standard. However, unlike D-Link's Boxee Box, the Iomega TV with Boxee device featured space to internally fit a 3.5-inch SATA hard drive. According to Boxee, the hard drive was not only for the Boxee software on the device but also usable as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit to share its media data over
714-509: A small two-sided RF remote control with 4-way D-pad navigation and a full QWERTY keypad as standard, and this remote was also sold separately with a USB-receiver as " D-Link Boxee Box Remote DSM-22 " which could be used with Boxee installed on a computer so one can use this remote without owning D-Link's Boxee Box The look of both the case and remote prototypes for the Boxee Box were designed by San Francisco-based Astro Studios ,
765-404: A small two-sided RF remote control with four-way D-pad navigation and a full QWERTY keypad as standard. This remote was also being sold separately with a USB receiver as " D-Link Boxee Box Remote DSM-22 " that can be used with Boxee installed on a computer (so that one can use this remote without owning D-Link's Boxee Box). The look of both the case and remote prototypes for the Boxee Box
816-490: A users' video content by information associated with the video files (movies and recorded TV Shows) themselves. The Library Mode view in Boxee allowed a user to browse video content by categories such as Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Director. Boxee had the capability to on the fly parse and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images, DVD-Video movies that are stored as DVD-Video ( IFO / VOB / BUP ) files on
867-505: A watch queue in Boxee so they could be later viewed. Boxee could also export a user's media activity feed to other social networking services such as FriendFeed , Twitter, and Tumblr . Through FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr it was possible from those third-party social networking services for a user to choose to post the Boxee activity feed to social networking sites such as Facebook, (through FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr apps for Facebook). Boxee's "AppBox " app store " App Store " which
918-410: Is the same core architecture used by Firefox, Hulu saw Boxee as "any other Mozilla browser so Hulu doesn't block the app." Hulu continued to thwart Boxee using strategies like JavaScript scrambling. Boxee was able to play Adobe Flash content from sites such as YouTube and Hulu, and display HTML5 or Silverlight content from such web-based services such as HBO Go and Netflix. Boxee shipped with
969-587: The Boxee developers contributed changes to that part back upstream to the XBMC project. So Boxee was partially open-source , and those parts were distributed under the GNU General Public License , however Boxee's social networking layer library, " libboxee " was closed source as it dealt with proprietary methods of communication with Boxee's online back-end server which handled the user account information and social network communications between
1020-817: The Boxee software incorporated features such as Apple movie trailer support and subtitle downloading, access to large on-demand video streaming services Netflix , Headweb and Vudu ; a range of popular online internet content channels like audio services Pandora Radio , Last.fm , Jamendo , NPR , SHOUTcast radio streams; video services from ABC , BBC iPlayer , Blip.TV , CNET , CNN , CBS , Comedy Central , Funny or Die , Joost , Major League Baseball , NHL Hockey , MTV Music , MySpaceTV , Revision3 , MUBI , OpenFilm, SnagFilms , IndieMoviesOnline, EZTakes, United Football League , Vevo , Vice Magazine , TED , The WB Television Network , YouTube and image services from Flickr and Picasa Web picture viewing plugins. All were available as media sources available alongside
1071-629: The Consumer Electronics Show, Boxee garnered 5 awards; " LAPTOP's Best of CES 2010 – Best Home Entertainment (Boxee Box) ", " Last Gadget Standing – CES 2010 Winner ", " International CES Best of Innovations 210 – Home Theater Accessories", "Popular Science – Best of CES 2010 (Products of the Future)". In April 2011, it was made public that Boxee had violated the terms of the GPL in the way they used open source software. According to
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#17328012104841122-593: The GPLv3, which governed software in the firmware of the device, users need to be able to reinstall modifications to the device. Boxee admitted the software was included in each device, but stated that their financial agreements with other companies were at risk if they complied. Despite much user dismay there was no change in course by Boxee. Iomega Iomega started in Roy, Utah , U.S. in 1980 and moved its headquarters to San Diego , California in 2001. For many years, it
1173-478: The Internet, and local area network shares. When run on modern PC hardware, Boxee was able to decode high-definition video up to 1080p . Boxee was able to use DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) on Windows Vista and newer Microsoft operating-systems to utilize GPU accelerated video decoding to assist with process of video decoding of high-definition videos. With its Python -powered plugin system,
1224-500: The Internet. This was due to Iomega having disabled password security by default. KLM, ING Group , and Ballast Nedam all had confidential material leaked in this manner. Iomega USA acknowledged the problem and said future models (starting February 2013) would have password security enabled by default. The company said it would clearly instruct users about the risks of unsecured data. On April 8, 2008, EMC Corporation announced plans to acquire Iomega for US$ 213 million . The acquisition
1275-465: The acquisition with The New York Times , but did not disclose the amount. Boxee supported a wide range of popularly used multimedia formats, and it included features such as playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and an array of third-party plugins . As a media center, Boxee could play most audio and video file containers, as well as display images from many sources, including CD/DVD-ROM drives , USB flash drives ,
1326-421: The activity feed in order to maintain privacy. If a user recommended something that was freely available from an internet content service then Boxee would let others users stream it directly. If a user recommended something that was not freely available then Boxee would try to show metadata, and movie trailers if it was a movie that the user recommended. The user's friends' Boxee activity feeds were displayed on
1377-505: The continued development of Boxee, as well as a free booth for the 2009 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) . Boxee donated half of the $ 50,000 prize money to the developers of XBMC. On 9 January 2009, G4 announced Boxee as the winner of their " Best of the Best products of CES 2009" award (in the " Maximum Tech " category) amongst all the products displayed at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2009 trade show. In January 2010, at
1428-702: The feature using Hulu's RSS feeds, but Hulu once again blocked access. Even though both the Boxee App and the Boxee Box supported Netflix, the Boxee App supported only a limited instant queue, missing more recent TV shows and movies available through the web browser and iPhone apps. In 2009, Boxee introduced a new plugin architecture based on the XUL ( XULRunner ) framework which technically allows any web-based application to be ported into an application for Boxee integration. Because of this Boxee could utilise Mozilla corebase architecture for most of its plugins – since this
1479-465: The home network to the living-room, it came pre-installed with Boxee, Hulu Desktop, and a WebKit web-browser as applications that could be started from the main menu with a remote control. It also had Skype app and Bluetooth support. Nuu has since discontinued NUU Player development and has removed any mention of it from their web site. In October 2008, Boxee won Consumer Electronics Association 's (CEA) i-Stage award, and with it $ 50,000 prize for
1530-455: The iOS' touchscreen user interface. It was approved for the App Store on 16 March 2010. Third-party developers also released Boxee remote control apps for Android and webOS . This is a list of third-party companies who sold hardware bundled with Boxee media center software pre-install, or sold uninstalled systems that specifically claimed to be Boxee-compatible (" Boxee Enabled ") by
1581-406: The local library. Some of the services were via specialized connections (e.g., YouTube), while the rest were a preselected list of podcast channels for streaming using generic RSS web feeds (e.g., BBC News ). Boxee also supported NBC Universal 's Hulu quite early on, but in February 2009 was asked by Hulu to remove the service at the request of Hulu's content partners. Boxee later reinstated
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1632-406: The manufacturer. These third-party companies directly or indirectly helped submit bug fixes back upstream to Boxee, as well as to the XBMC project which Boxee in turn used as its framework. Boxee Box by D-Link (officially " D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380 ") was a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on 10 November 2010. Designed to act as
1683-461: The network as a DLNA compliant UPnP AV media server . Myka ION was an Nvidia Ion based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on the home network to the living-room, it came pre-installed with Boxee, XBMC , and Hulu Desktop as applications that could be started from the main menu. NUU Player by NUU Media (NUU Ltd.) was an Nvidia Ion-based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on
1734-586: The option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and a weather-forecast (via weather.com ). It also had music/video-playlist features, picture/image- slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function (not available on the Boxee Box) and many audio-visualizations and screensavers . Boxee could in addition upscale/upconvert all 480p/576p standard-resolution videos and output them to 720p, 1080i, or 1080p HDTV -resolutions. Boxee could be used to play most common multimedia containers and formats from
1785-537: The options of panning/zooming and slideshow with " Ken Burns effect ", with the use of CxImage open source library code. Early builds of Boxee included a built-in BitTorrent client (not in the Windows version), with a frontend for it integrated into the Boxee interface, and there were also Torrent links to legal BitTorrent trackers download sites available incorporated by default. The built-in torrent client
1836-540: The same designer company that designed the look of Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Zune . Iomega TV with Boxee by Iomega was announced by Boxee on 4 January 2011, this was the second Boxee device to be announced It began shipping in Q1 of 2011. The Iomega TV with Boxee was a Linux device which came pre-installed with Boxee media center software. The hardware was based on Intel CE4110 system-on-a-chip platform (that has
1887-460: The system's DVD-ROM drive, local hard disk drive, or stream them over SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares, or UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) shares. Boxee was designed to take advantage of the system's network port if a broadband Internet connection was available, enabling the user to get information from such sites as IMDb , TV.com and AMG . Boxee could stream Internet-video-streams, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as SHOUTcast). Boxee also included
1938-490: The user to control the player using a remote control and other input devices that were more suitable to laid back watching. It was not clear if this way of using " bxflplayer " as closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passes as GPL linking exception or not. Boxee source code was otherwise in majority based on the XBMC (now Kodi ) media center project's source code which Boxee used as its software framework , and
1989-406: The user's home screen, as was the user's own recent activity. Internet content was accessed through a sub-menu of each of the video, audio, and photo menu items, such as Video -> "My videos" and Video -> "Internet videos". In addition Boxee Beta and later had the option of monitoring Twitter and Facebook news feeds to automatically discover links to videos. Boxee would then add those videos to
2040-534: The users in the Boxee userbase. It is not clear if this way of using closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passed the GPL linking exception or not. The social networking component of Boxee was the differentiator from other media center software. Boxee required registered user accounts, which formed a social network of fellow Boxee users. Users could follow the activity of other Boxee users who were added as friends, and could publicly rate and recommend content. Users could also control what media appear in
2091-744: Was a digital distribution service platform that served add-on apps and plug-ins that provide online content to Boxee, the " AppBox " allowed users to download new apps and addons directly from Boxee's GUI. Many of these sources were in high definition and use streaming sites' native flash and Silverlight players. Boxee had extensibility and integration with online sources for free and premium streaming content. AppBox offered content including commercial video, educational programming, and media from individuals and small businesses. Boxee also encouraged users to make and submit their own add-on apps and plug-ins to add additional content accessible from within Boxee. Boxee could play multimedia files from CD/DVD media using
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2142-582: Was a part of a broader partnership between the two companies announced in August 2012. The partnership also included an effort to develop x86-based servers and allowing Lenovo to act as an OEM for some EMC hardware. LenovoEMC was a part of Lenovo's Enterprise Products Group before it ultimately dissolved with the EMC Dell acquisition. In November 2013, Lenovo announced the construction of a research and development facility near São Paulo, Brazil . This facility
2193-520: Was a significant name in the data storage industry. Iomega's most famous product, the Zip drive, offered relatively large amounts of storage on portable, high-capacity floppy disks. The original Zip disk's 100MB capacity was a huge improvement over the decades-long standard of 1.44MB standard floppy disks. The Zip drive became a common internal and external peripheral for IBM -compatible and Macintosh personal computers. However, Zip drives sometimes failed after
2244-840: Was completed in June 2008, making Iomega the SOHO / SMB arm of EMC. EMC kept the Iomega brand name alive with products such as the StorCenter NAS line, ScreenPlay TV Link adapter, and v.Clone virtualization software. In 2013, EMC (before the Dell purchase ) formed a joint venture with Chinese technology company Lenovo , named LenovoEMC, that took over Iomega's business. LenovoEMC rebranded all of Iomega's products under its name. LenovoEMC designed products for small and medium-sized businesses that could not afford enterprise-class data storage. LenovoEMC
2295-533: Was dedicated to enterprise software and supporting LenovoEMC's development of high-end servers and cloud storage. Construction would cost $ 100 million and about 100 would be employed at the facility. It would be located in the University of Campinas Science and Technology Park, about 60 miles from São Paulo. Later in 2016 the Brazil facility was downscaled and relocated elsewhere. Iomega designed and manufactured
2346-614: Was designed by San Francisco –based Astro Studios , the designer of the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Zune . On 16 October 2012, the Boxee team announced intention to discontinue distribution. Boxee Boxee was a cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) software application with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV. It enabled its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features. Boxee
2397-468: Was designed with design firm Method Incorporated, who also created Boxee's brand identity. The first public beta version was officially released for all previously supported platforms on 7 January 2010. Boxee gained the ability to watch live TV on the Boxee Box using a live TV stick in January 2012. By the end of 2012 the developers had discontinued all desktop versions and support. Boxee co-developed
2448-463: Was later removed. Through Boxee's Python plugin system it was also possible for the end-users to make their own or add unofficial plugins made by third-party persons for other BitTorrent trackers. The " boxee remote " ) was an application released by Boxee Inc. for the Apple Inc. iOS which allowed for remote controlling of an installed and concurrently-active Boxee session on another computer via
2499-470: Was originally a fork of the free and open source XBMC (now Kodi ) media center software which Boxee used as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform , together with some custom and proprietary additions. Marketed as the first ever "Social Media Center", the first public alpha of Boxee was made available on 16 June 2008. The UI design of the Alpha prototype
2550-619: Was over $ 100 at its height in the 1990s, fell to around $ 2 in the mid-2000s. Trying to find a niche, Iomega released devices such as the HipZip MP3 player, the FotoShow Digital Image Center, and numerous external hard drives, optical drives, and NAS products. None of these products were successful. In 2012, reporter Vincent Verweij of Dutch broadcaster Katholieke Radio Omroep revealed that at least 16,000 Iomega NAS devices were publicly exposing their users' files on
2601-888: Was owned and developed by a single for-profit startup company , (Boxee, Inc.), which began as a high tech stealth startup based in Israel and the United States with seed money from several angel investors , and was then known to be financially backed by venture capital firms such as General Catalyst Partners, Union Square Ventures , Softbank , Pitango , Spark Capital and Globis Capital Partners. The company's main offices are located at 122 West 26th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001 40°44′42″N 73°59′33″W / 40.745062°N 73.992611°W / 40.745062; -73.992611 . In July 2013 online media sources revealed Samsung would hire key employees and purchase Boxee's assets for around $ 30M. Samsung confirmed
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