Watching some of the movies was hit and miss. For example, I tried to watch the classic film "His Girl Friday" on the box -- it was being offered through two different sites (including YouTube Movies) -- but both time I tried to watch it, the movie didn't play.

There's potential here with the box, but it needs to have the Hulu Plus (with its subscription fee) and Netflix application support in order to put it on par with offerings from the less-expensive and more-content-available devices from Roku and AppleTV.

Grade: 3 stars (out of five).

in Network World's Software section.