At least Boxee has the excuse that it isn’t a multibillion dollar company (which is more than I can say for most others who ship buggy hardware). I don’t believe these are hardware issues, just the type of software bugs you encounter when dealing with a project of this complexity. In recording the demo video for this review I encountered three system-resetting crashes, not to mention countless others over the past week+ of testing. The box clearly needs work in the optimization and stability departments. My complaints on the web video side are mainly about performance and bugs. I wish everything worked like South Park and you were always dropped into a full screen view of the video. Boxee does compromise on the display aspect which is disappointing (but understandable). You don’t have to worry about where the shows come from, just pick what you want to watch. At a high level, I believe Boxee has come very close to the perfect balance between the two extremes.Ĭontent aggregation and organization is done very well. Make it too difficult, and you end up with a platform that’s unsellable. Make it too easy and the content owners will crack down on you. What we’re missing is a simple way to view all of the content on your TV.īoxee is tackling an admittedly very difficult problem. If you just don’t mind visiting sites like Hulu and Comedy Central you really can get by without paying for cable TV these days. Networks are putting the majority of their content online in an ad supported form. We’re on the cusp of the internet TV revolution.
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