One can manage to use the Chromebox to watch plenty of free Hulu offerings, replays of Olympics figure skating and some shows from ABC Family, a channel otherwise unavailable on streaming devices.
Video is sometimes jerky and the audio sometimes out of sync, but that's something one can get on other devices, too.
It is recommended to get the wireless keyboard and mouse for streaming.
Otherwise, the keyboard and mouse would be physically attached to the Chromebox, which sits closer to the TV than to you.
But that setup doesn't work well for general computing.
