Technologizer

Hulu Builds Itself a Boxee Clone

Thursday, May 28, 2009

When last we reported on the odd relationship between the Hulu Internet TV service and Boxee media center software–part tango, part warfare–Hulu was doing everything in its power to foil Boxee fans who simply wanted to watch Hulu programming via Boxee’s TV-friendly interface. Today, the company launched a new product: Hulu Desktop. It lets you [...]

5Words for April 7th, 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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Care to read some news? Google searches return local info. New logos for Intel chips. New BlackBerry Storm in September? Problem! Mysterious missing Twitter avatars. Boxee rolls out API, fixes. Dual-thumbstick PSP for Christmas? iTunes variable pricing goes live. Arrington on FriendFeed: cool, unused? Drobo introduces eight-bay storage. AP: hands off our content.

Boxee Gears Up For Beta Debut

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Boxee has spent an awful long time in “alpha.” Thus its users will likely be much relieved to know that the application is finally planning to move into beta during this summer. The company is promising that it will be worth the wait, and isn’t exactly disclosing all it plans. Certainly for being in alpha the [...]

Initial Impressions of Boxee NYC

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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Well, this post came a little later than I had hoped (car troubles on the way home), but here were my initial impressions of what I saw Tuesday night in NYC. This was definitely a good showing people wise for Boxee — the company reportedly had 1,000 RSVPs. I don’t think everyone showed up, but [...]

On The Way to Boxee NYC

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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So I’m en route with a friend to NYC with a friend to hit up the Boxee meetup. Not exactly sure what we’re going to see, but I am expecting to hear at least a bit about the new upcoming beta from execs Avner Ronen and Whitney Hess. At least two partners are expected to show [...]

Hulu Goes Medieval on Boxee

Friday, March 6, 2009

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At first, the kerfuffle involving the way startup Boxee used clever software to bring Hulu’s Internet TV service to TV sets was rather gentlemanly. Hulu asked Boxee to remove it, and explained why in a blog post that was almost apologetic–and which pretty much blamed it all on Hollywood content owners. Boxee thoughtfully replied in [...]

Hulu Returns To Boxee (Kind of)

Friday, March 6, 2009

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Talks have so far proven unsuccessful between Hulu and Boxee after the online TV giant asked the media-center software startup to remove its service from its application for Macs, Apple TV, and Windows. (I’m guessing Hulu’s owners’ pet project is playing a part here), but the set-top box company has come up with a temporary [...]

Life Without Comcast: An Update

Monday, February 23, 2009

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I’ve been remiss in not updating you on my experiment in using an Apple TV with Boxee’s media-center software as a substitute for my pricey Comcast service. “Life Without Comcast” may be a misleading title, since I haven’t tried to go cold turkey–instead, I’ve done some of my TV watching via cable, and some via [...]

Comcast OnDemand Goes Online

Friday, February 20, 2009

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Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer has posted a worthwhile read on Comcast’s upcoming Internet TV service, which is due later this year. It’s tentatively called OnDemand Online, and it sounds like it’ll be a rough equivalent of the company’s OnDemand cable service, featuring content from cable channels and available only to Comcast subscribers. It’s in [...]

Hulu Gives Boxee the Boot. Thanks, Hollywood!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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Okay, now this just stinks: Boxee, the cool software that lets you pipe Internet TV and other digital media onto a TV set, is doing away with its support for Hulu, the most significant purveyor of streaming versions of broadcast TV programming. I take the move personally, since I recently bought an Apple TV in [...]

Boxee Gets ABC

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Minor confession: I’m not much of a watcher of current episodic network television. So even though I’m trying to do as much of my TV watching via Boxee’s media center software as possible, the fact that Boxee is adding Lost and ABC’s streaming shows to its lineup doesn’t mean much to me personally. I’ll be [...]

The New York Times on Boxee

Saturday, January 17, 2009

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I thought I was being weird and bleeding-edge by attempting to dump cable TV for watching sites like Hulu through Boxee’s open-source media center software on an Apple TV. But the New York Times has a nifty story today on Boxee and its fans–and once something’s in the Times, it’s presumably well on its way [...]

Life Without Comcast: An Experiment in Internet TV

Friday, January 16, 2009

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Maybe the title of this new Technologizer series is unfair. I don’t despise Comcast, the company who I’ve been paying for cable TV service for the past six months. (Until then, at my old pad, I was a DirecTV man.) But I don’t love it, either–especially the part about paying it a large amount of [...]

Boxee Adds Netflix, But Not on AppleTV or Ubuntu

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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Open source media center platform Boxee said Thursday that its latest release would add support for Netflix, however only for users of its Mac OS X port. While the company offers both a version for Ubuntu Linux and AppleTV set-top boxes, neither are supported in this initial release. Boxee says the issue with not being able [...]