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Loved the boxee box. Thanks for that! Do you happen to have the radio specs for the remote? I miss it so much, I want to use it for my home cinema setup.

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No, DLink made it for us, and you’re smart to want to use that remote to this day! Full QWERTY keys on the back and D pad on the front was our IP and another first for the industry. The box was running an Intel Atom CPU. Some devs and people have continued to keep that hardware going too.

Did you actually beat the TiVo Slide remote to market? I'm sure you know it, but for those who don't, look it up - backlit remote with the usual TiVo buttons on top, but the whole top slid (much like the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1) to reveal a QWERTY keyboard. Given how slow the non-graphics related hardware in TiVo's STB's was, this was much faster than trying to peck out one letter at a time on their onscreen keyboard.

I was very unhappy when my wife dropped and broke ours, but doubly so because they had been discontinued by then.

The TiVo slide remote was cool. Check WeakKnees or AVS forum for that release date. They will have anit announced or archived. Ours was topside/bottom side with no moving parts. It was flip-flop modality. The concept was “don’t look” on the Directional side and type or search on the keyboard side.

Ah, didn’t catch that detail. That is indeed a very cool idea.

And thanks for memory lane. Haven’t thought of Weaknees or AVSForum for ages - the latter especially valuable since my first DVR was a ReplayTV.

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