Been a while since I saw anything worth posting, but a few things in this weekend’s sneak peek deals looked OK.

LG42LH90 – 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV

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Sony Blu – ray Disc Player – BDPN460

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D-Link DCS – 920 WirelEss G Internet Camera

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Battlestar Galactica (1980): Complete Series

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MSI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card – PCI Express 2.0 x16 – 1 GB DDR3 SDRAM

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I decided to give the Boxee beta release a try last night by installing it on my bedroom HTPC and then creating an entry point in Media Center with it using Media Center Studio.  Everything worked great except I could figure out how to get my new entry point added to a custom strip, so I just threw it in the Extras Library and launched it from there.  Media Center minimized correctly and Boxee came up in fullscreen mode (I had already installed, created an account and configured it to my liking).

I only did a little browsing around with it, but it was very alpfluid and I liked the interface a lot.  I didn’t actually try playing back any material as I was also in the middle of doing some Media Browser testing, but I may give that a go tonight.  One thing I did notice is that neither the Back nor Exit keys seemed to work as a proper Escape function in Boxee, so I had no way of going to a previous menu or exiting out of one…I had to use the keyboard.  I’m sure I can fix this in the Harmony software, but I just thought it was odd.

If you’re interested in giving Boxee a try, you can sign up and download the beta version here.

Correction:

I had incorrectly originally listed this as an alpa when it was, in fact, a beta release.  This post has been updated to reflect that (thanks to dbone1026).

Just came across this out on the Internet…it’s a personalized message from Santa to your child(ren).  I just filled it out and watched it and I know my 4-year old is going to go nuts when he sees it this evening.  Enjoy!

Taken directly from the Media Browser forums:

Instead of just repeating what has already been said, I’ll just lead you to this post over at AVS Forums regarding the new Slysoft player.  It is expected to be available sometime this year.

It will be free (but will require AnyDVD).