Any Boxes with TV/Movie scrapers?

JAWWC said:

I know the Boxee box is coming out but I really dislike boxee and can't get most of it's feature here in the UK anyway. I was wondering if anyone knew of any other home theatre boxes that have media scraping? Like xbmc or plex?

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well I just went back to boxee after the apple tv 2. Too much hassle with converting, scraping, etc. What is it that you don't like about boxee, the interface is great and it just scanned my 600g library in about 2 hours and downloaded every cover and description for my movies and tv shows without any hassles. It's hard to find a decent alternative.

Boxee does let you fix content that is scraped wrong, I haven't got it in front of me right now so bear with me. I think you select a movie that is wrong and then on the pop-up where you press play to start it there is a button at the bottom right that allows you to search and scrape it again.

edit:- Yep, it's called the Wrong Video button.

Which then bring up a search page.

While I know it is not exactly the same, just curious why you would consider atv2? You no longer have to sync it with iTunes, so as long as you add your media to iTunes it will be available on the atv2 (rough equivalent of scraping), and I find it to be very reliable, I add a movie and it pops up.

I know you probably don't want to run iTunes, but you have to format/tag your media and put it somewhere, why not iTunes? If you use iTunes to organize your media then you are done scraping.

If it is more about features then fair enough, atv2 is more limited.

Peter