Certified BitTorrent Box Brings uTorrent to Your TV

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The first ever certified BitTorrent Android box goes on sale today, allowing users to stream files downloaded with uTorrent wirelessly to their television. The new set-top box supports playback of all popular video formats and can also download torrents by itself, fully anonymously if needed.

With a quarter billion active users a month BitTorrent is without a doubt the most used file-sharing platform.

The vast majority of these BitTorrent users download video files, but despite these staggering statistics it can still be quite cumbersome to play downloaded files on the old-fashioned TV.

The first ever certified Android-powered BitTorrent box aims to change this. After the initial December launch was delayed, the BBK BitTorrent box officially goes up for sale today.

While we have seen devices that support BitTorrent downloads before, this is the first one that can can also stream content downloaded through uTorrent and BitTorrent clients on the local network.

This means that users can play content downloaded by uTorrent and BitTorrent directly on their TV. Below is a screenshot of the user interface, displaying the various BitTorrent clients the device can connect to wirelessly.

Since the device supports DLNA, users can also access other media libraries including the one from rival BitTorrent client Vuze and Apple’s iTunes.

In addition to playing content downloaded by other clients, the BitTorrent box itself also comes with BitTorrent support. Users are able to add torrent files through the built-in web browser or load torrent files from a USB drive.

The BitTorrent box then takes care of the downloading and the file can be played instantly when the download is finished.

Another upside of the BitTorrent box is that it’s running on Android, giving users access to thousands of applications in the Android market. This includes various VPN applications for those who value their privacy.

The BBK BitTorrent box is up for sale now at just under 90 euros and ships to European countries only.

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[Cyn]

Hrm this seems cool, someone needs to make this out of much cheaper parts and bring the price down to 50%-75% off and I could see folks carrying these around to "connect" on wifi networks and hotspots. At 90 euros without those other features it seems a bit steep.