Comments on: Here comes Boxee TV: A $99 box with over-the-air TV and cloud DVR

By: John

John — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:50:40 +0000

Requires instant update. It has failed three times so far. Two hours lost… Returning to retailer and advising friends to stay away.

By: igor

igor — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:01:56 +0000

If you never record is the additional monthly fee optional?

By: Paul R

Paul R — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:02:55 +0000

But the Monsoon Multimedia doesn’t have it’s own tuner…looks like you have to connect it through a cable box or another tuner to get Live TV

By: Mr Lizard

Mr Lizard — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:10:24 +0000

Is your Boxee Box going to suddenly stop working?

Was a promise of lifetime firmware updates promised to you when you purchased it?

Would you rather see Boxee fold, their employees laid off and no further products ever released because they didn’t pursue a revenue-generating opportunity?

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:44:50 +0000

On the new Boxee TV, will it have the capability to connect to your home network??

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:57:19 +0000

Turns out the new box is a complete mess and the firmware is a joke.

Which isn’t all that surprising since its the same team who made a mess of the boxee box.

By: Susan Yasue Grogan

Susan Yasue Grogan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:45:28 +0000

I heard that Boxee TV was supposed to be able to unscramble local channels for local channels via an existing cable line. Does that still hold true? I know the FCC caved and allowed cable companies to scramble local channels, so does this mean people will have to pay the cable company for their local channels now? Is the Boxee TV only able to use OTA?

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:38:34 +0000

Dont let Boxee foul you. Just see what they did with the Boxee Box.
That product never worked like it should, and now they dropped all those people who supported them.

By: Professor Ping

Professor Ping — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:47:50 +0000

Sounds like a(nother) stopgap product to me. Boxee have pinched bits from their decode/player software, boxee box, tuner dongle & cloudee app & lumped it all together into one (dull looking & decidedly un-innovative) $99 black box.
Sounds to me like they have realised the boxee box spec & feature set was too much of a reach for them. This is absolutely the case (ask 90% of boxee box users).
I suspect one of two things…
1) This product is Boxee’s last gasp attempt to milk some revenue from the product lines they have already developed, in order to pay off investors before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
2) This product is a “safe” stopgap to appease the rightly hacked-off boxee box community, and gain some market traction before emerging at some point in the future with a new all-singing-all-dancing boxee box. The product they should have made in the first place.

To be fair, they *did* make the product in the first place… almost. The published spec proved to be unachievable in the real world, and they badly underestimated the resources needed to support their product, for even a tiny user base. The result of which was a “vocal” user base, all of whom feel utterly conned & mistreated by this company who promised so much and singularly failed to deliver.

Avner Ronen – Ditching XBMC “was very liberating for us”. Really?
Extreme irony, given XBMC was the one piece of the Boxee jigsaw which actually worked. And XBMC has a very active & extensive multi-platform dev & user community, which Boxee proved woefully incapable of leveraging & integrating with.

Avner Ronen is a politician & spin doctor extraordinaire. Big pinch of salt when you read any of his promises and assurances people. Don’t give Boxee any money you aren’t prepared to write off before you start.

By: Trevor Heisler

Trevor Heisler — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:55:37 +0000

Boxee has one last firmware update planned for the Boxee Box that will update Flash and fix several known issues. After that, the Boxee Box will not receive firmware updates in the future. :(