Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee?

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by RK • 17 years ago

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lec• 17 years ago

I personally do not see the attraction (I also do not use Apple TV, I use HP MediaSmart TV). Although Boxee is billed as a media server, and perhaps that was its role when it was called XBMC, it currently is mostly a media aggregator. Perhaps the infatuation with all things apple ( fueled in part by the Jesus phone), has gotten everybody enthused but to be a genuine cross platform media aggregator/server it must be able to stream internet content. In its current incarnation Boxee uPnP server comes in disabled, and even after you enable it, you quickly realize that it will not stream Hulu, Netflix, wb, cc, cbs. I can see how, when running in an Apple-TV aggregating media there, it can be appealing but until it can be used as an streaming server streaming all media (including Hulu, Netflix, ..., etc ) it is not even as good as Miro.

Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee?

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