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- Mcclenahan, on 01/10/2009, -4/+80Did you read all the info? Windows not open publicly yet.
"Boxee is currently available for Mac, Ubuntu and Apple TV customers, with the Windows version moving into private alpha"
Well that takes 86% of us out of the loop. - adamroach, on 01/10/2009, -5/+43Oh come on, we can have at least one program before the rest of you right? ;)
- geoken, on 01/09/2009, -2/+31You know that part of the title that says "Boxee Officially Goes Public, Anyone Can Join". I think it cryptically refers to boxee going public beta and alludes to the fact that anyone can join. On the other hand, I may have misinterpreted the confusing title and you may be totally right.
- Mcclenahan, on 01/10/2009, -4/+33Google is truly amazing, :) Found the link to the windows version. Go forth and spread the love.
http://me.dm/blog/2009/01/new-boxee-beta-brings-bb ...
windows - http://dl.boxee.tv/boxee-0.9.7.4723.exe - SlipperyNipple, on 01/08/2009, -0/+25Yesss !!! I love Boxee :)
- peestandingup, on 01/10/2009, -5/+23Doesn't feel good, does it?
- vrikis, on 01/10/2009, -4/+21Boxee = epicness
- tyrulz, on 01/10/2009, -8/+25No windows yet? wtf
- ffhc2000, on 01/10/2009, -3/+19For newbs unable to google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee - rumblestrut, on 01/10/2009, -0/+15Geez. I'm not sure why I got buried.
I'm not kidding. It works great with the Apple TV. I watch Hulu with Boxee installed on my Apple TV, making it a pretty sweet media center. Plus, it'll play more than Apple's limited movies.
Boxee rocks. - justapix, on 01/10/2009, -0/+14This is the internet we don't know how to be
- Barackalypse, on 01/10/2009, -4/+14YAMFE: Yet Another Media Front End. I really wish they took the time to explain why they are better than Windows Media Center, MythTV, SageTV, Xlobby, or XMBC though.
- picardo, on 01/10/2009, -1/+10Boxee is open source. It's compatible with every type of media platform. It doesn't require you to shell $300 for equipment to install and use it on your computer. Those are enough for you?
- gawnd, on 01/10/2009, -1/+10Just finally used my boxee invite last week and am totally blown away. If I only I wasn't such a sports fan, I could drop cable right now and not even miss it. This is the future of tv, I have no doubt.
- Flooded, on 01/10/2009, -0/+8Yes there is - you just need to be invited to participate in the alpha.
- farfromhere, on 01/10/2009, -1/+9Awwwww, someone feels left out T_T
If you really wanted to, you could have requested an invite when it was a private beta. Then you could've felt special too! Or whatever the hell it is you wanted and didn't get. - nahdan, on 01/10/2009, -0/+8i used to use tversity, but i recently switched over to boxee because i'd have too many weird sync issues between pc and xbox360. seemed like i was always having to walk over to the pc and restart it.
another reason why boxee pwns tversity is because it automatically indexes your movies from a database so it gives you the cover art and description for free. thats a much better way to browse my library than by video filename. - FreddieD, on 01/10/2009, -1/+9"Oh, it's also dated and not the latest windows version so use at your own risk. The latest version is only allowed to private alpha testers, so sign up now!"
Substitute 4825 in place of 4723 in the link then. - JediPymp, on 01/10/2009, -3/+10Been using Boxee for several weeks now on both of my Apple TV's. They actually make the Apple TV worth having.
Before Apple TV = mediocre.
Now Apple TV = rocks.
Recommend!! - rubensj, on 01/10/2009, -0/+7But does it have porn?
- amprancid, on 01/10/2009, -0/+7Express your concern to the Boxee team. Their dev's are known to respond
- DigitalisAkujin, on 01/10/2009, -0/+7Synonym for "just works".
- Kruez, on 01/10/2009, -1/+8You've shown them and their stupid software engineering process! Now they'll learn the error of their ways...
Oh, it looks like they already have. Get on over it already. - rumblestrut, on 01/10/2009, -4/+11It's great stuff. I love how it works with my Apple TV.
- bjornski, on 01/10/2009, -5/+12Be patient.
- haydesigner, on 01/10/2009, -1/+8Should have clicked the right 'reply' link.
- skottles, on 01/10/2009, -2/+8There is windows support, but you have to be invited to that alpha test.
- MScrip, on 01/10/2009, -1/+7Boxee first made headlines when you could flash an AppleTV with Boxee.
"The aim of the Boxee/AppleTV project is to “fill in those gaps” left by Apple for new feaures, video formats and non-Apple internet streaming."
But yeah... it's just another media front end. - Zippo, on 01/09/2009, -3/+9Never tried Boxee before... but I will now!
- motang, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6Boxee is awesome, been using it on Asus Eeebox on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's simply wonderful.
- bjornski, on 01/10/2009, -1/+7Don't worry, by the time it's available for Windows they'll have all the bugs worked out.
It'll be worth the wait, just be patient. - Anand999, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6I think Boxee is based on XBMC. XBMC can't do any kind of hardware acceleration when playing back videos, so possibly Boxee picked up that same limitation. Since there's no hardware acceleration, it's all up to your CPU whether or not you can playback HD content. My old single core Athlon 64 3200+ can play back 720P content (with about 70-80% CPU utilization) but 1080P usually results in dropping frames left and right.
- BrettFromTibet, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5Boxee is the most awesome computer application I have EVER tried.. in the past 25 years of computing.
Get it or be sorry!
(off to watch it now!)
p.s. this is not spam, just genuine enthusiasm - inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5The way it handles cataloguing your videos is amazing.
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6Anyone know if it's as good or better than Tversity?
- bootrom, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5Works perfectly under Ubuntu without any problems and my friends using it under OS X have been blown away by it they've said.
- tmike7223, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6and Boxee loves you <3
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5In the XBMC forums one of the devs stated that access to the GPU is a pre-requisite for An XBMC port, so I'm pretty sure many things are done in "hardware". As he stated this pre-requisite is why XBMC hasn't been ported to the PS3 and probably wont be (no RSX - thanks Sony!).
- zdiggler, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5It is based on XBMC.
- CDRaff, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5It is a more central place to view media, kinda like front row or Windows Media Center Ed. It can play all types of media(Divx/Xvid movies, Flac, ogg audio, etc.) as well as connect to streaming services like Hulu.com. This makes the AppleTV very useful, and for that reason I have used it on my ATv.
Also I think 'connected' refers to 'connected to your network/internet'. I may be wrong though. - abbathdoom, on 01/10/2009, -0/+5Yup it does. In the preloaded internet channels there are adult ones.
- danj484, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6The article says it was in private ALPHA. I've never heard of a public alpha. Besides, you think in the most initial phases they'd want random people accessing their servers with lots of potential holes and leaks?
- say592, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4I run OSX on my Wind, but all my media is on my desktop which runs Vista.
I think I have a problem.
Guess Ill be waiting to give it a try... - bootrom, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4I've tried Freevo, MythTV and many other media interfaces under linux/windows.. Boxee looks and functions better than all of them in my opinion. The alpha has been very stable and gathers metadata for all my media without interaction (you need to be strict about keeping your media labeled correctly which is fine with me). Plays back 1080p via my samba shares with no framedropping, works perfectly with my remote. I've been very happy with it and am sticking with it, can only get better from here. Oh and I don't watch live tv or record it so that's a non-issue for me. I really don't see why you have such a big problem with it, calm down man..
- Anand999, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4XBMC uses OpenGL to draw its UI. The PS3 doesn't allow Linux apps to use the hardware for 3D acceleration, which is why they haven't ported it to that platform yet since it would require rewriting the UI.
The "hardware acceleration" I'm referring to in my post is the video decoding acceleration that most modern video cards can do. A capable software player can offload most or all of the video decoding to the graphics card and cut the load on the main CPU significantly. XBMC can't utilize video decoding acceleration so the CPU has to decode the video all by itself. - apcfreak, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4I'm pretty sure it's because linux users usually get neglected in the process of products like these (eg. Chrome)
- yifanlu94, on 01/10/2009, -1/+5I no longer feel special about getting to use boxee :(
- bootrom, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4What about the social aspects of the software?
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4fuppes / meditatomb / ushare / "ps3 media center - java" . All better than tversity.
- bootrom, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4I've been using Boxee for a couple months now and it plays back 1080p movies smoothly from my fileserver to my media box.. It does use alot of CPU but it never drops frames and doesn't tear, works really well.
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