boxee alpha opens up on Mac, Ubuntu January 8; Windows invites to follow
By Richard Lawler 
posted Dec 23rd 2008 3:21PM
posted Dec 23rd 2008 3:21PM
Six months and 150,000 signups later, boxee is preparing to move from alpha to beta status, ready to drop any unsent invites on all interested parties by the 25th ahead of the open alpha period starting January 8, 2009. While OS X / Apple TV / Ubuntu have been the required attire so far, Windows users won't be out in the cold much longer, as CEO Avner Ronen revealed in comments on the boxee blog that the Windows alpha program will start "early 2009" with thousands of invites sent out every week. That enough to pique your interest in this media streaming set-top box software?[Via A VC]
I find it hard to support a company that has a drunken frog as its logo.
LOL
lol
thanks for the spilled coke on keybooooooooooooooooooooooooooorad
I always thought i looked like the frog with the "crazy eye"
hahaha ur right but I'm tryin it anyway
HA! Good spotting that one!
Frog that got kicked in the nuts, perhaps?
Not if you're an investor who likes to lick toads.
I use that altha version of boxee. And it so far i think it has a ton of potential. All they need to fix is the problem with Itunes. i think it is a big problem
And Hulu. Right now, Hulu isn't watchable, so that's 2 pretty big deals that need to be fixed. it also needs to support more file formats.
my bad for the horrible grammar .
Talking about grammar engadget need to learn some
boxee alpha opens up on Mac, Ubuntu January 8; Windows invites to follow
The first letter of the title need to capitalized
@"D.S"
Oh boy, you're a real mess.
@d.s. - I think "boxee" is a brand name with all lowercase letters... thus "b" not "B"
anyway - good eye for catching the unimportant and insignificant
One of these days you'll learn that you can use the word "needs" instead of "need" so you don't look like a moron when you're trying to correct someone else.
Oh shit; looks like that day is today, rookie biotch!!
I've been using Boxee on Apple TV for awhile now and I love it. The Hulu interface alone is worth it. Keep up the good work, guys!
I'm pretty sure it will still be alpha on Jan 8th. They are just opening the alpha up to the public.
Can this record HDTV channels from cable or satellite? If so, please show me where to research this further...if not, boxee/xbmc/etc... is worthless.
This so called HD content on Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, and ComedyCentral still looks like crap on an 88" screen. I'm looking for a dedicated media center and I don't care who makes it! Just allow me to record 4 HD channels at once and I'll buy it. As far as I know Vista Media Ceneter is the only software that allows this. Please correct me if wrong.
MythTV with the right hardware can do all that, as long as you can get around the cable co.'s encryption. Another fail for DRM and digital media.
Oh, you'll get an invite, alright, just don't count on it being boxee related...
Boxee + Apple TV ftw.
I have been using it on my AppleTV, while the idea is great the performance is rather poor. I am sure the developers are doing what they can with the AppleTV hardware, but unless there is a huge performance increase soon I don't see many AppleTV users wanting to use it.
-owl
So why use this over Plex ?
I don't get it... Why is this so much better than Tversity? Plex? It doesn't seem to be anything new or innovative. My T-Mobile G1 seems less complicated and more stable when using the GMote application to share files.
I got it installed, but apparently I don't have enough GART memory for it to run :/
Oh well, looks neat and I'll definitely keep an eye on it
You can haz viagra.
I love my boxee ( ubuntu version)
I finally got my boxee alpha invite after 3 weeks waiting, and ill say it was worth the wait. It has turned my mac into a media machine. Although it has taken some time for my entire music library to be recognized. It plays 720 video flawlessly. Hulu works great, once you figure it out, aka google, and so does every other part of the application. If this is only going to get better than i can't wait.