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Vineet Kumar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:22:46 -0000

Is your '.' key sticky? Half of your sentences end with 2 periods; it's very distracting.

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TomP — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:52:21 -0000

You don't need the support of Sony to run boxee on the PS3. You also don't need to install linux on the PS3.

All you need to do is include a DLNA server with boxee (check out TVersity) which can stream video to the PS3.

For those that are interested, this also works with the XBox360.

TomP

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Chris Nutile — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:06:18 -0000

I have heard it is possible to run Boxee on the PS3. Could you point me in the right direction to see how? Let me know.

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Richard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:11:38 -0000

I'm curious what percentage of people answered that they didn't want yet another box.... That was a preliminary question to the game console question.

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Eric — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:24:18 -0000

I don't know if you've looked at specifics, but http://www.pchdtv.com has a great 1080p tuner card and is open source. I use it myself and it's great. The price will go down with bulk, but this feature alone I would pay $100 for.
In terms of the remote, please make it very simple. I would much rather have it look like the apple remote than the media center remote with 50 buttons. The thing I like about boxee is that you can do almost everything with 6 buttons (up, down, left, right, select, menu), so, for example, rather than having numbers on the remote I would rather just hit a button and see my channels and select from there.

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JP — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:19:24 -0000

I think Wii would fit best to boxee. Too bad there is hardware limitations.

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thepete — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:47:17 -0000

My thought would be to buy a $300 eee box with Linux on it and install Boxee. At least, that's my thought. Not sure how Boxee makes money in that case though :( and I don't have a spare $300 right now. I also don't have a spare $199 for a Boxee Box, sadly :( But if I did, I'd be thinking more like dropping an extra $100 for a more versatile device. But that's just me.

How about an iPhone app? I've got Joost, by itself, on my iPhone. I'd just about pee myself if I could have all of the programming Boxee delivers on my iPhone. I even use the Boxee remote for Jailbroken iPhones (which is awesome except for the black buttons--they're hard to see). Keep up the great work, guys!

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giyad — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:43:12 -0000

Well, whatever price range you go with it has to be able to play 1080p content! i can't wait to get rid of my AppleTV and get Boxee on a better and cheaper box.

Actually, you have to fix the music feature before i can switch...

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steven powell — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:11:46 -0000

It would be great to have it on the wii, and with the hombrew channel, installation would be easy.

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Anthony Kern — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:27:53 -0000

I second Jon Duenas on this one. Apple TV would be all I need if it would do Netflix streaming, but without it there's no way I'd buy one.

So that means a Boxee box would have to be around the same price point to be viable ($199). Any higher and you could just get a Mac Mini and have a whole computer.

Don't see the need for a CableCard system. The whole point here is to circumvent the cable companies. They still get a check from me for the internet access. Most people running a STB probably aren't in the market for this type of device, IMO.

Personally wouldn't care to see Blu-Ray either due to the price, but a normal DVD player would be nice. Let this box replace your DVD player with all the streaming functions and the ability to pull files off the network and you're looking at the ultimate living room device. Make sure it's got HDMI and it'd stop using my FitPC Slim with Ubuntu!

(It'd assume that as long as it has enough USB ports you could just use an external DVD player though, no? That would be acceptable as well.)

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LD — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:40:23 -0000

Why wouldn't you think so? It's PPC, which would have to be developed, but that doesn't require Sony's help. There are several Linux distros that work on the PS3. Not sure why you'd think it wouldn't work. Boxee developers often seem stuck in a box. The social media center concept was thinking outside the box, but it seems many other things are stuck inside a tiny little box with no creative problem solving.

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avner ronen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:31:23 -0000

i agree. 1080p, modular, black box, RF or Bluetooth. a winner.

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avner ronen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:30:15 -0000

never tried, but i don't think so.

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avner ronen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:29:43 -0000

$99 will be a weaker box, so we will have to make compromises. with $199 i think we can retain the existing experience

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LD — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:30:01 -0000

PS3 can run Boxee via Linux with no help from Sony.

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Eric — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:05:56 -0000

Please include a 1080p HDTV tuner card in this box. I think, especially with the DTV transistion happening what now looks like around June, you guys have a great opportunity to sell these box. Also it would be great if you guys sold "modules." For example, more storage module that you could stack to add more storage or the bluray module to add a bluray player, etc. Just be sure to stick several usb ports on the back. This way you can make a lot of people happy, so when someone just wants the barebone they can get it or if someone wants a bluray player they just buy the core unit and bluray unit.
Also a word of advice; don't make the boxee box that color green. Instead, make it white like a mac with the box logo or just a jet black like every other electronic device. Personally, I would prefer a brushed aluminum case, but that might push it out of the price range.
One last thing, please don't make the remote Infra Red. Instead, make the remote Radio Freq or bluetooth. A lot of people, including myself, like to hide all of their media equipment out of site so an IR remote would be useless. Thanks for great work!

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mrsmegz — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:42:20 -0000

I agree, MS will never put Boxee on their consoles. Not that I don't think it would be a move in their best interest. Its just that Boxee, being such an open platform, would allow anybody to display content on their console, that you just happen to own. Rather some fat cat at MS probably rather sell is own super duper idea to his boss about how Internet TV should work on a console, and how MS can keep the whole thing in house. The fat cat will form his team, get his attaboys from above, and then watch it fail like all other half baked attempts MS has made at Internet TV and Media Centers.

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giyad — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:33:09 -0000

After seeing the results I'm a little surprised. Why would people be willing to pay up to $199 for a box without any added features?

Personally, i would like to get rid of all the clutter in front of my TV. I've already got rid of my DVD player because of Boxee, so getting rid of my cable box is the next step.

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Sam — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:34:54 -0000

Basically what I'd want is a Popcorn Hour that runs Boxee. Barebones, configurable. Let me decide if I want a local HD or a NAS configuration. The ability to record TV (CableCard) would be great, but I don't think the Boxee folks will be able to do that in any sort of reasonable price range, unfortunatly.

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md — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:43:02 -0000

Or boxee should partner with nvidia to distribute a boxee branded version of their box. with an esata port (sorely missing from the mini IMHO), it would be the perfect device.

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fernando — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:03:33 -0000

I don't see either Microsoft nor Sony accepting Boxee, that's sad but it's true. If you think about it, it's a business model that they want to keep control, so they get all the money.

I hope someone port xbmc core to PPC one day and we can run in our hacked consoles, like we do today with ATV. Otherwise, it's not gonna happen.

Apple should revamp ATV with an integrated nvidia 1080p ion decoder, and ffmpeg should add support for that. IMHO, that's the best world scenario.

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gsacks — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:58:38 -0000

Yes, XBMC runs on the original XBOX just fine. Maybe Boxee could too. I'm not sure. But the survey asked about the 360. In any case, I think they are talking about getting it on there as officially sanctioned software, and that is what I am referring to. I don't think MS would want to play ball with anyone who's software has even a remote relationship to the MOD community, even if the software in question is totally above board. I think that would be too bitter of a pill for them to swallow. Technically, I doubt it would be too much of a problem. But as a matter of business, I don't see it happening. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

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Kymus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36:54 -0000

For me, the biggest thing is a range of choices. Some people want a box so full of features that it weighs as much as an Xbox, while others just want something light and simple. To the best of my knowledge, no one else is offering such choices. I think that this will help Boxee's continued success.

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Tony Scinta — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:57:12 -0000

If the stages of the Boxee Box Product life cycle are 1-5, 1 being Alpha testing and 5 being where xbmc currently is, I probably wouldn't adopt a boxee untill stage 4. Most NERDs probably wouldn't because we have to see where its going. But if you can get Mom and Grandma to buy it then you'll succeed.

Wii Logic.

The thing I would like from a boxee box is the ability to be upgraded. Give me a 2 gig SSD for the OS. Let me open the bugger up and put a new one in when it gets full. Give me USB ports on the back and front so i can add new media if i need to. Give me a remote and/or Wiimote control.

Give me the basics + hdmi and we'll be happy.

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avner ronen — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:09:58 -0000

most of the networks are starting to play with HD streams, Fox, ABC, CBS, etc. are all offering HD versions for some of their full episodes.

if/when a boxee box will come out it will not mean the end of development for other platforms.