The Boxee Box will start shipping November 10 via Amazon.com, the company announced Wednesday.
All other U.S. retailers will have the product in-store and online starting November 17. Worldwide orders will start shipping shortly after this date, Boxee said.
Boxee started accepting pre-orders for the Boxee Box on Amazon.com on September 13. Consumers in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K. can pre-order the Boxee Box via D-Link, which is manufacturing the device.
The media-streaming box supports full 1080p HD video and 5.1-channel surround sound, is powered by Intel's Atom CE4100 processor, and will set you back $199.
To celebrate the launch, Boxee and D-Link will host a launch party in New York City on November 10. At the event, Boxee said it will demo Boxee 1.0, a new version of the Boxee software that will initially be available on the Boxee Box, but will later roll out for PCs, the Mac, and Linux.
"We've seen amazing demand for the Boxee Box across all of our pre-order partners in the U.S. and internationally," Rod St. Michel, vice president of consumer sales at D-Link, said in a statement. "Consumers are looking for the right product to get their favorite TV shows and movies onto their TV from the Internet and their home network, and the Boxee Box is the friendliest, and most consumer-ready product currently available."
Boxee first debuted in 2007 as freeware media center software, and the company announced plans for a standalone Boxee Box in December 2009. Since then, a number of big-name competitors have entered the space, including Google TV and Apple TV. Last month, Roku also unveiled its Roku XDS.
For more details, see PCMag's unboxing slideshow of the Boxee Box below.