Boxee disappointed us a while back, when they discontinued their software in favor of their hardware solution. From the beginning, their hardware has suffered from problems, and software updates have been too infrequent. Boxee has been at the forefront of negotiating for the future of unencrypted basic cable. As we previously have written, we...
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This week, well-known blogger and co-founder of both Gizmodo and Engadget, Peter Rojas, announced he'd finally pulled the plug and cancelled his cable TV service. Rojas will be using a Mac Mini with a Silicondust HDHomerun, plus EyeTV, Boxee, Hulu, Netflix, and Kylo.
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We're big fans of Boxee here. We don't use it on a daily basis(partly because of the issues with using it under Fedora Linux). We've been at every Boxee New York City event, we've annoyed their CEO.
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Image via CrunchBase Hulu, the online movie streaming site, released a version of its Desktop software for linux. Now, we’re Linux people, so we love that a company has released Linux software. But we can’t help but think back to how this affects Boxee. Hulu asked them to remove support, then unveiled their desktop...
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Image via Wikipedia As you know, Gadget Wisdom was represented at tonight’s Boxee New York City meetup. We did a little tweeting from there, but tried to focus on the presentation. Now, this meet was chock full of goodies, networking and general wonder. Direct link to the video. Boxee is unveiling a new API(application...
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Image via Wikipedia Our two pet interests right now seem to be netbooks and video, although there are a lot of other things we find interesting. Engadget HD asked yesterday whether or not people are still buying DVDs. A poll of people reading a site with HD in the name, indicating the bulk of...
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Image by nwistheone via Flickr On Tuesday, we’re heading down to the Boxee NYC meetup. For those of you not coming(probably a lot of people), they will stream it live here. We’ll blog a bit about the experience of hanging out with 650+ Boxee enthusiasts when we get back from it. The meetup will...
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Image via CrunchBase In a blog post today, Avner Ronen announced a new Boxee update. In characterizing the issues with Hulu, he said that “the fact that it’s becoming easy to consume Internet video on a TV brings into question many of the industry’s business models that developed before the web.” And this is...
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Image via CrunchBase Hulu has announced that its content will no longer be available through Boxee. As they put it… Our content providers requested that we turn off access to our content via the Boxee product, and we are respecting their wishes. While we stubbornly believe in this brave new world of media convergence...
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Image via Wikipedia Last week, the Device Guru website was temporarilly overloaded due to the syndication of one of its posts on Slashdot about building dedicated hardware to run Boxee. Boxee has been getting a lot of press, not just from us. For those of you who haven’t been following it, Boxee is a...
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