A little company called BOL has unleashed the first ever BitTorrent-certified set top box. At its core, the BBK BitTorrent Box is an Android networked media player and similar to the hundreds of ARM-powered devices that have taken over sites like Dealextreme and Pandawill.
The box is DLNA compatible and can handle loads of different video and music formats, including VOB and MKV. Like other Android set-top boxes, it’s got USB ports and an SD card slot so that you can play media stored on flash cards, thumb drives, and external hard drives.
What can the BBK Box do that other devices can’t? Nothing, really, but it’s all about the packaging. The Bittorrent Box is designed to make the process of torrenting as simple as possible. All the required apps come pre-installed, and the system is ready to process torrents from external media or from URLs clicked in the system’s web browser.
And like all good desktop torrent apps, the BBK Box provides a web-based interface that lets you add torrents and control transfers remotely. Just fire up the browser on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone, and point it to the correct URL!
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