The one surprise left, besides the price, for the Boxee Box : A full keyboard on the back of the remote, so you don’t have to deal with onscreen keyboard. Crucial, frankly, to get the most out of it . Also, we’ve got a full list of all the formats and codecs it supports, which are the same as the software running on any other computer—so yeah, MKV, Dvix, the works. We still have to wait to see what “under $200″ means exactly—though given how crowded the media streaming box field is, lower would be better. D-LINK DEBUTS BOXEE BOX AT CES 2010, DIRECTLY LINKING INTERNET ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES TO TVS EVERYWHERE Networking pioneer and popular entertainment software create the best way to get the free entertainment the Internet has to offer with no monthly fee LAS VEGAS, Booth 36232, South Hall, LVCC, Jan. 5, 2010 – D-Link made lots of geeks and early adopters happy today by introducing the revolutionary Boxee Box by D-Link, winner of the CES Best of Innovations award in the Home Entertainment category

Importers take note: This budget priced PMP doesn’t look like much, but she has it where it counts. It being price (about $60-$90) and output (1080i via HDMI). The 4.3-inch screen supports a 1360×768 resolution, the internal storage checks in a 4GB, and there’s room for more memory thanks to memory card slot on the side. Other goodies include 720p output for a monitor via HDMI out, and an FM radio. Ed.

It’s a bit pricier than our favorite media player, the O!Play at $144, but the miniaturized Playon!HD from A.C. Ryan does include support for internet streaming services, NAS and USB attached storage along with 1080p. Basically, PlayonHD Mini is a smaller version of A.C. Ryan’s original HD media player, but it doesn’t sacrifice much other than an internal drive bay and a card reader. It doesn’t seem like a bad deal overall, unless you compare it to a full-featured HTPC . [ A.C

Interested in trying out the latest version of Boxee with its fancy new UI? Beta 0.9.20.9647 is now available for download from The Pirate Bay. [ TPB ]

Lisse quietly updated its MyRace line this week with a conventional 5-in. 720p PMP called the Lisse H10. Let’s take a look: The tiny player sports a 1280×720 TFT LCD screen with a resolution that’s comparable to some 13-inch netbooks, notes PMP Today. There’s also an HDMI out, FM radio transmitter and voice recording. The video format support list goes thusly: RM.RMVB, AVI (Xvid, DivX), WMV, ASF, DAT, MPG, MP4, VOB, SMI. Audio?

Long the nerd connoisseur’s do-it-all media software, Boxee has bigger ambitions. Not just a box . But the conquer-the-whole-world, embedded-on-every-TV kind. And the newest release of Boxee looks mighty capable of doing just that. The UI’s been redesigned with a new home page (up top), that’s divided into three sections: The feed, which pulls in video and photo recommendations from your friends via Twitter and Facebook; Featured content, which is stuff Boxee highlights; and the queue, where you dump everything you want or plan to watch (for instance, you can add the video from any web page to your queue with a Boxee bookmarklet). The other major UI change is the new global menu, which’ll instantly drop you into any of Boxee’s major sections, like movies, photos, TV or your favorites

LaCie makes design-friendly, premium hard drives. But while it’s no surprise that their LaCinema Classic HD looks this attractive, the $250 price is shockingly reasonable. The LaCie LaCinema Classic HD is, at its heart, a 1TB hard drive with HDMI-out. You can load up media through USB from a PC or Mac (or flash drive). Then you can carry the drive to your television and watch DivX or MKV H.264 movies. But it’s always a DLNA-compliant HD media player.

Boxee’s fantastic connected media center software has always been just that: fantastic connected media center software . Today, the company says its going to announce hardware —a Boxee Box , even. Boxee’s post on the box has nothing in the way of details yet, so I’m just going to have to take a WILD guess at what this thing will look like: It’ll be a box, with an Ion chipset, a medium-sized HDD, HDMI-out and a Boxee sticker and a $200 price tag. Why? Because nothing else would really make any sense

If there’s one Apple product that lives outside the Reality Distortion Field, it’s Apple TV . But hey wait, 3.0 is out , doesn’t that change everything? Well, considering Apple rolled it out on a Thursday afternoon with no fanfare, whattaya think? 1. New Home Screen and Tweaked UI The old home screen had a grid of categories, including Movies, TV, Music, Settings, etc

Cupertino status symbol it most certainly is not, but the Gemei HD8800 does offer 1080p support and has it where it counts. It being price. For about $122, the HD8800 will play back your media in glorious HD on its 4.3-in. screen.