Comments on: Boxee officially pulls the plug on PC client

By: Michael Bastos

Michael Bastos — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:52:39 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/boxee-for-computers/

Some of us are forking Boxer for PC but could use some help if anyone wants to get involved. Check out the site above, developer or not we could use your help.

By: Exivus

Exivus — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:24:32 +0000

Way to completely abandon your old supporters. Half-ass your way through a BS version of your computer-based software that doesn’t work, release it with no developer support, then after you can say you released “one more version”, yank all links to download it AND the links to download the last stable version. The free version we supported, bug fixed, donated to, etc. – ultimately making you marketable – was just too much of a competitor to the Boxee Box, eh? I hope you know that the rest of the world knows this BS so you at least get the black eye you deserve.

By: Raymond Jolly

Raymond Jolly — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:16:37 +0000

I completely agree with @gonzo90017. I was never impressed with Boxee. The fact that it always crashed on the PC and Mac kept me from buying the D-Link solution. I always found the Roku to be a much more simplified approach. Although there is no DVR, the interface is more elegant. The Roku box is not everything that I desire but I will say state it is stable.

By: Serg

Serg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:58 +0000

at this point I only used boxee to watch revision3 programs on my htpc. I can do the same in WMC. other than that I didn’t really like their apps and subscribing to rss video feeds one music blogs only worked some of the time. youtube leanback is a better substitute for mtv than boxee was.

By: Nikato Muirhead

Nikato Muirhead — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:39:49 +0000

Mac users should be furious. The final version of Boxee crashes on most intel mac mini’s. The program won’t even open. Boxee knew about this issue, and killed the Mac version without fixing it.

By: gonzo90017

gonzo90017 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:31:35 +0000

And I for one am glad that Boxee for PC is no longer being developed. It was always very buggy and only worked less than half the time.

They only time they released updates was whenever they threw an event. And of course they always made a big deal about it. (Instead of releasing timely fixes once in a while).

Fans had been waiting for this release for a long time. And when they finally decide to release it a ton of stuff is broken and premium Apps are disabled. It’s basically only good for local file playback which Plex does a whole lot better.

Support was a joke. You register at the forums. Post your question. And some Mod tells you, you need to file a support ticket on some other website . .

In my opinion they got a lot of undeserved attention and praise for a buggy piece of software.

Boxee relied way too much on the users creating apps. It was good thing at first since it brought a ton of apps. The problem was that whenever an app was broken if the creator lost interest it was abandoned. Since there was really no incentive for them I don’t blame them. So they ended up with a lot of apps but a lot of them didn’t work. Boxee didn’t bother fixing their own apps so why bother fixing someone else’s?

By: gonzo90017

gonzo90017 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:02:48 +0000

I’m very underwhelmed with the TV Guide used in the Boxee Box. And no DVR capabilities? I for one do not believe that they are waiting for people to ask for DVR functions. I’m sure they are working on it but are a way’s away from having it work properly. They just said that to buy some time and to later say “You asked for it and we listened. We’re all about the customers!” (which we all know isn’t true)

I’m currently using Windows Media Center with a dedicated 1.5 TB drive for recordings. I have 2 OTA dual tuners. Which allows me to record 4 shows and watch a previously recorded show all at the same time. $0 monthly fees.

No need for Hulu Plus. And I can record CBS shows which aren’t even available on Hulu Plus.