Boxee Unveils The Beta
Joe M posted in free stuff, homelife on December 8th, 2009
Boxee announced their hardware delivery for 2010.
(Up until now, I have been running the Alpha version, with the rest of the public.)
I watched the news conference via Livestream, earlier.
Boxee Chief Executive Avner Ronen was onstage, to facilitate the majority of the announcements.
During the press conference in New York, they unveiled the new application.
It looks promising.
An improved UI…
One thing that jumped out at me, was the ability to queue content.
So, while you are watching one show, you will be able to run a process in the background that will have the next show ready to play.
For now, the application is in Beta.
That Beta version is only being tested in a select group of users, not available freely to the general public.
It’s been reported that the application will be available to the general public, in early 2010.
Also, during the conference, they announced their partnership with D-Link.
They talked about the hardware in somewhat vague and ambiguous terms.
They will release a hardware box.
It will have wifi and have an SD slot.
Clearly, from the conference… there will be several subscription services available to run on the Boxee application and the hardware.
Major League Baseball and Netflix were two services that were mentioned.
The statement was made that there would be no support for iTunes.
Not sure if that means no access to the store, or media play… or both.
From the news conference…
The plan is to release a version of the Beta to the public, in January, at CES.
The conference is quite lengthy… but a must for the content addict.
If you are interested, you can watch it here. (Not sure how long the link will be active.)