Boxee secures Series B round, plans for more features and more developers

where do you get those kinds of avatars, i see them all over the web, but have no idea how people get them...

I too installed both Boxee and Plex, plus the little programs that allow you to launch both from the Front Row interface. My wife and I really tried to use and explore all three (Boxee, Plex, and FrontRow) - Plex is the best.

We don't subscribe to Netflix, so the difference there is irrelevant. I don't understand why Boxee gets the funding and press when so many people think that Plex is better.

You have a sweet avatar on Boxee. You should use the same on twitter. You would get tons of new followers :)

Put boxee on a tv, complete with a web browser like chrome, Tweak the interface to match the size screen and fetures of that model tv, so you can go directly to usb port or 2nd or 3rd HDMI connectios and access whatevers plug into them directly through Boxee,, Add in general web browseing and a wireless keyboard with a built in trackball, and yopu have something...


Ken Lawson

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How did you forget Boxee is an alpha? I remember it every time I use it. I had to delete it altogether from my Apple TV as the latest update made it slow at best and unresponsive at first.

I tried Boxee, and Plex on my Mac Mini HTPC, and I liked boxee, but, I stuck with plex (for now). The reason I chose it was that I couldn't get Boxee to play nice with iTunes libraries, it could only read the files from the filesystem, whereas Plex was able to read my library.
I did a bunch of searching on this issue, and all I could find about Boxee, and iTunes, was that it was 'Coming Soon'
Did I miss something in my searches? if so I would really like to know.

If getting Boxee on set top boxes is their end goal...then I have a question: How exactly are they going to get over the illegal use of FFMPEG as their playback engine?

I don't think the social networking features factor in at all. I think the goal is to get Boxee on set-top boxes (like Netflix has done with Roku and LG and Samsung Blu-ray players and the X-Box 360) and other devices. That's a pretty hot market right now (as it has become pretty trivial for stuff to be built into a TV or a Blu-ray player or a set-top box of another sort (cable, satellite) and then touted as a feature/advantage for that item) and could be a real revenue source. That's always been Boxee's big picture goal, which is what I thinks separates them from so many of the other players in this space. They were thinking big picture and how to get serious from the beginning.

Realized not too long ago just how much better Plex is, at least with Boxee in its current state. Boxee's been focusing on the *ahem* clouuuud stuff, neglecting local media.

http://www.plexapp.com

Absolutely loving it.

I'd like to see Boxee focus more on media management and less on content.

Content is locked to particular regions so let third-party developers create this support. Boxee should focus on the core of media management and playback.

The biggest draw for me is how Boxee manages my media library. When I browse my local content it shows information like titles, cast, an plot. It does not feel like I'm browsing folders and files.

Boxee still doesn't recognize the meta tags on my video files. This means I cannot use Boxee to manage or browse family videos of my trip to Egypt.

I've been waiting too long for Apple to announce HW updates for the Apple TV. I'm right on the edge of Apple TV's limits. I can't wait to see additional device support.