Back to Boxee... I've now verified that the older revision of receiver I was selling works with the Boxee Box. It's the newest revision that doesn't work. So it appears that the Boxee code doesn't currently support VIsta-class MCE receivers, but only seems to work with MCE2005 models.

There are a number of discrete functions that aren't possible with the standard remote, but a lot of stuff missing, such as a way to jump directly to the movie list (you can jump directly to any other list however, plus back to the home screen). The most important thing missing is direct access to all the skip commands - you can still only do the 30 second skip from the remote. You can also jump directly to the start or end of a video.