This is pretty bizarre, but when you consider the support they give writers on their Kindle program, it makes more sense. Would-be screenwriters can submit scripts to Amazon, which will buy the rights for $US200,000 if they like it.
Last night, I watched a 10 minute version of Alice in Wonderland filmed in 1903 on my 50-inch TV. It was black and white, and the film – despite having been restored – had obviously been damaged. But watching a movie based on one of the most influential books of all time filmed just eight years after the birth of cinema through my PS3 was an amazing experience.
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.
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?
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?
The arrival of XBMC on the Xbox was a significant moment in the evolution of home media centres. But the really big shift came when XBMC moved from being a console-only offering to a program that would run on multiple platforms.
Come November, you’ll be able to pick up a dedicated Boxee Box for all your streaming media needs for a pleasantly reasonable $299. To celebrate its impending launch, over the next week, we’re going to retrace the origins of Boxee, how it ended up on the Boxee Box and look at what the future might hold for media centres generally. But we have to start at the beginning, and in the beginning was some open source code and a somewhat different kind of box.
