BOXEE MEDIACENTER SOFTWARE
BOXEE MEDIACENTER TV

Boxee's involvement ensured that the user interface would be one of the best in the media streamer market. Intel's name on the box suggested that it could be the ideal HTPC replacement, with a small form factor. With so many players having a stake in the success of the Boxee Box, it was no wonder that expectations were high. Ideally, D-Link would like their partnership with Boxee to help them reclaim some of their lost ground in the media streamer market. D-Link's media streamer product lineup has recently been facing stiff competition from the likes of Western Digital, and it was necessary for them to come up with an innovative product to remain relevant in this space. The Boxee Box is their first endeavor to bring Boxee (and XBMC) out of the HTPC niche and into the living rooms of the average consumer, and eventually lead them to a source of revenue. In this context, the Boxee Box, priced at $199, appears to be the ideal product to bring Intel's SoC technology to the consumers.īoxee has a huge following all around the world for their extension of the XBMC platform.

BOXEE MEDIACENTER TV

Multiple Google TV platforms have already been introduced, but they are all priced out of range of the mass market. The recent push for the 'Smart TV' by Intel however, has the scope to change that. Intel's SoCs have never been popular in the consumer space. Further testing made it necessary for Boxee and D-Link to shift to an Intel based platform: the Atom based CE 4100. However, Tegra 2 wasn’t able to support the high bitrates Boxee was targeting. In fact, it was the first platform to publicly demonstrate Tegra 2. The streamer itself made a public appearance at the 2010 CES based on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 SoC. And if you don’t want to bother building your own, Boxee teamed up with D-Link to build the Boxee Box by D-Link:īoxee and D-Link's joint work on the Boxee Box became public knowledge around a year back. Just as people used ION to build XBMC boxes, Boxee encourages users to do the same and build their own Boxee boxes. It’s freeware and available for Linux, OS X and Windows.

BOXEE MEDIACENTER SOFTWARE

Boxee’s software was branched off of the Xbox Media Center project and now includes a lot of Boxee’s own code on top of the XBMC base. It’s easy to use and even better, there’s no monthly fee.“ “A lot of your favorite shows and movies are already available on the Internet.īoxee is a device that finds them and puts them on your TV. This is where Boxee comes in.įront and center at the official Boxee website is the intent: It’s just not quite as easy as a cable subscription with a DVR. In theory, with what’s posted online already, you could pull the plug on cable and just rely on video over the web without missing much. The content is all out there, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to aggregate it all into one cable-TV-like interface. Visit Fox.com, NBC.com or CBS.com and you’ll be greeted with ways to watch all of the shows they air via the web. These days you can find a lot of cable TV content on the web, usually posted the day after the shows air live on cable TV. I mention this history for one important reason: we haven’t seen the same progress with aggregating and distributing television content on the web. While the front page of any website today isn’t quite as big of an example of prime real estate as it was 10 years ago, it’s still quite valuable. If anything all of these technologies have helped make consuming content online easier. RSS didn’t stop users from visiting websites, neither did Twitter and Instapaper hasn’t spelled the end of the front page either. There’s RSS, Twitter and Instapaper among others. These days we have many more ways to get access to written content on the web than a simple newsletter. Instead of visiting a website to read the latest it had to offer, you got an email in your inbox with either complete content or enough of a teaser for you to decide whether or not you were interested in it. Email newsletters were the first to really change the manner in which content was consumed online. If you wanted news or reviews you went to news and review sites, consuming the content they had to offer at each individual website. In the early days of the web, destinations held all the power. Content aggregation has been instrumental in the development of the web.

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