Boxee offers 165 (at last count) apps from content providers. No official price on the box yet, but it's said to retail for under $200 and available sometime in the first half of 2010.īefore purchasing a Boxee Box, I'd register to try out the free Boxee Beta on your PC.see if you like the interface. To Boxee’s credit, the platform makes an attempt at whipping this wild west of content into standard formats with its app platform. I've re-posted them at the bottom of the article. The Boxee Box should also appeal to social media users: it's set to support Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, with the click of a remote.Īt the same time, users can also add their own media as long as they fall under compatible file formats which D-Link listed out in the press release. Unfortunately due to legal issues, Hulu won't have it's own app, but that would make this thing a whole lot cooler if so.
#APPS FOR BOXEE BOX INSTALL#
And just like the Boxee software for your computer, users can add RSS feeds, XML feeds, or install other apps onto the box of their favorite Internet entertainment destinations.
Some of the entertainment destinations that will be available as apps on Boxee will include Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, and Next New Networks. The whole point is to bypass scanning through the plethora of sites on the Web, and instead click through apps that reorganize this information with a remote control.kind of like watching Comcast's OnDemand. I am always losing my remote, and I don't like the phone apps. Additionally,īoxee's core social features make it easy for friends to discover newĬontent from each other through social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and This extension allows you to control your Boxee Box (and possibly Boxee TV) from your browser. Starting from the home screen, Boxee breaks content down into four groups: Shows, Movies, Apps, and Files. The main improvement in the new release is navigation.
#APPS FOR BOXEE BOX PC#
Network, and the Internet to their HDTV with no PC needed. The Boxee Box uses a newer revision of the Boxee application than is available on Linux (at the moment, version 1.3, as compared to version 0.2).
#APPS FOR BOXEE BOX TV#
The Boxee Boxĭelivers movies, TV shows, music, and photos from a user's computer, home The product was announced last month at an event hosted by Boxee, the company which develops the software behind the magic.Īs described in D-Link's official press release, " The Boxee Box by D-Link reinterprets what TV should be. This is great for somebody who isn't capable of hooking up their computer to their television.or for those who are, the Boxee Box wants to make it a lot easier. We plan to release 1.5 together with Live TV later in January. In case you don't already know what the device has to offer, it basically aims to bring all the free entertainment you can catch on the Web, to your televisions. Version 1.5 of Boxee is currently being tested by Boxee Box Early Access users and will soon be available in Beta. It's official, the Boxee Box is on the way to bring us the free entertainment the Web has to offerĭ-Link, the company which is manufacturing the long-awaited Boxee Box, has officially debuted the device at CES 2010.
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