Consumers looking for D-Link’s DSM-380 Boxee Box HD media...

Consumers looking for D-Link’s DSM-380 Boxee Box HD media player Monday at exclusive distributor Amazon were directed instead to a page listing Roku HD, Roku HD-XR and Apple TV media players. D-Link said in a news release that Amazon would begin taking pre-orders Monday for the streaming box that’s slated to ship to consumers in November for a street price of $199. When we checked Amazon, Boxee Box came up under “related searches” beneath the Roku products. Clicks on Boxee were re-directed to a D-Link page with a router instead, with the message “your search for ‘D-Link boxee box’ did not match any products.” A D-Link spokeswoman cited “minor technical issues” and gave us the link to a special URL, www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038JE07O, which she encouraged us to give to our readers. It wasn’t clear how consumers looking for the product would find the special URL. D-Link announced the launch of Boxee, an HD media player built on Intel’s Atom CE4100 SoC, at the Intel Developer Forum being held this week in San Francisco. The chip is said to provide the processing power, audio, video and graphics capability required for Internet-driven applications, multimedia, advanced user interfaces and electronic program guides. The box enables support for 1080p content, regardless of source, the company said. According to D-Link, Boxee offers users access to 80,000 TV episodes and movies online, access to Flickr, Facebook, Pandora and YouTube, along with other apps.