User manual

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Setting up a Secondary Screen
If you have two displays attached, you can control the resolution for Boxee in your
main, as well as your secondary display.
Set your display preferences to "extended desktop" on you computer.
1. Run Boxee.
2. Go to Settings > Appearance > Screen.
3. For Resolution, choose Full Screen #2.
4. Click on Test Resolution.
You can also toggle between window and full screen modes, by hitting the "\"
(backslash) key.
Set your Region
Set your Region and Language by going to Settings > Look & Feel > Region in the
Boxee.
Setting your region enables you to personalize your version of Boxee in your
preferred language with the correct time, date and weather temperature(displayed in
the top right corner of your screen).
 Some content providers block access to their content from outside their region.
That has to do with distribution rights in different parts of the world, and lots
of legal mumble jumbo we won't get into here.
 Technically, those content providers check the IP address of your the
computer, and block access to IP's not within the authorized region.
 There are some ways of getting the desired IP address for your computer, even
when connecting from different parts of the world, and you can probably
google for more info on that matter.
How do I know that an application is not playing because it's geo-blocked, and
not because of some other problem with Boxee?
The easiest way would be to pay a visit to the original content provider's website and
try to play the media directly from there. If it works on their website, it should also
work in Boxee. If it won't play on their website, then Boxee won't play it either.
So, which Boxee applications are geo-blocked?
Here's a short and partial (as we don't really know which applications the community
is adding to Boxee, we can only testify on the apps developed in-house) list of the
geo-blocked services in Boxee:
Blocked for IP's outside the US: