The Boxee box was a pretty decent streamer, but a big hole was its inability to stream Netflix – something pretty much every other electronic device in the US can do. Now it can. [Boxee]
Boxee is definitely getting Hulu Plus – under the condition Boxee removes all links to Hulu’s free streaming service. Boxee’s CEO is expected to confirm it later today, but until then that’s making the new Box look even costlier. [AllThingsD]
As promised, the D-Link Boxee Box is finally shipping in the US! And that’s not all the good news its makers have for us today: More »
The D-Link Boxee Box (in addition to Boxee clients for PC and Mac) will offer HD movie rentals when it lands in living rooms in coming weeks, courtesy of a new partnership with Vudu. Vudu’s full HD rentals – 1080p, Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound – cost two bucks a pop for two nights of viewing. Not a bad service to add to Boxee’s arsenal, not bad at all. [Press Release]
We’ve reached the final instalment in our History Of Boxee series, because we’re at the point where the Boxee Box is about to be released and it isn’t really history if you’re making predictions about the future rather than writing about what’s already happened. But there a couple of issues we should examine. More »
The Boxee software does a grand job of organising digital media and helping you view it and share it with others, and you can install it on plenty of hardware platforms. But what if you don’t want to install it at all? More »
We’ve already established that Boxee is one of the more notable spin-offs from the original XBMC project. What is it that makes it stand out from its parent product and rival media centre software offerings? More »
