Boxee comes to Apple TV
Boxee, an open source media center with a focus on UI and social networking is now available on Apple TV!
Boxee will play any non-DRM content, and let users share information with each other and their existing social networks about what they’re watching or listening to. It will also aggregate all your entertainment (video, music, images) into one place and add in any RSS/XML/MMS feed (with mainstream content from sites like Hulu & ABC coming soon).
You can read more about Boxee in this article, or watch the video below.
The installation is very simple, thanks to an installer which formats a USB drive and sets it up to do the installation for you once plugged into your Apple TV.
If you would like to get an invite to the Boxee alpha, simply follow this link http://www.boxee.tv/atvhacks. You can then grab the USB-drive installer software from here.
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October 24th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
was very thankful for the ATV-USB creator to be available for PPC macs. ran it on my mini for a kingston, and worked like a charm.
boxee.tv looks gorgeous; it’s slow though (can’t tell if it’s due to the network interaction or just the interface itself)
ahh, now that i think about it, i do recall them mentioning that 1080(i) isn’t that great…when i get home i’m shifting down to 720p and see how things flow.
j.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
It looks very interesting and it can be a good alternative. We will try it. Thank you.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Boxee is very very unstable, but xbmc is brilliant. Well worth the trouble of installing. If you already have SSH enabled, there are simpler ways of installing than patchstick!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Having said that, boxee looks very nice, and has great potential, if only they can sort out the issues.
November 9th, 2008 at 12:38 am
boxee! boxee! boxee!
it’s the saviour of my AppleTV.
in fact, it’s good enough i’d say i’d recruit people to get an appleTV just to run boxee on it, and free themselves from cable. When they added Hulu support, it got to be nearly game over for any other kinda TV
i see the source code is available. unfortunately i have no mac dev box…there are some features i’d love to see (bookmarking, setting up playlists, tagging and rating) that i wouldn’t mind giving a go at
j.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:35 am
looks like they finally gave up and left. apple tv update that kills boxee and nothing out of them.