Comments on: Hacker community takes over as Boxee phases out Box support

By: iakath

iakath — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:29:35 +0000

I have had my BB for several months. GREAT system. when you get 3rd party repos like fuzzthed. This system can do it all, but dlink dropped the ball and now has released the boxee tv, an INFERIOUR product?! I have had Roku and WD boxes… they are junk. The new boxee tv is just like them. Boxee+HACKS is good. A few issues, mainly the box sometimes wont tirn off untill I visit settings. Otherwise a great idea. I am glad someones is taking this on.

By: Tim O

Tim O — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:29:43 +0000

why would anyone buy any of their products or even trust them after this?

I gave up on it and got a Roku, maybe it will be the one that works right

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:58:37 +0000

Still waiting for the promised flash player update for well over a year now. I just use my box for viewing downloaded media on my pc. i will look at Boxee+

By: Whizzy1966

Whizzy1966 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:08:54 +0000

Will void the devices warranty if people hack into it. Well Boxee has dropped support for the Boxee Box so what would be the big deal. They will not replace a box that they no longer support..DUH…

By: Rick Filiere

Rick Filiere — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:06:21 +0000

After a month of monitoring chats i added boxee plus. So far so good. Works great and no issues. The guys running it actually offer support unlike boxee. I wish boxee would grant them full access so they can really get the box running full throttle instead of a back door hack

By: jaspio

jaspio — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:45:38 +0000

Boxee has just caved in to the manipulations of the content industry: make it impossible to use outside the United States. Done. Lock down the ecosystem to prevent external manipulation and man int he middle hacks. Done. Make it so unattractive to the original user base and try to market high technology to mouth-breathing middle America. Fail (done). — A very p-d off European 1st edition Boxee Box owner

By: Paulie Walnuts

Paulie Walnuts — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:43:51 +0000

Boxee Box has always been a piece of garbage. NO customer support (that excludes non paid moderators aiding Boxee customers out of the goodness of their hearts) and tons of bugs. I downloaded the hack install. It’a a hell of a lot better. Now all I look forward to is a class action suit by current and former Boxee customers because of failure of promised service.

By: Brent Price

Brent Price — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:16:27 +0000

I actually had purchased this unit.. here’s the thing. If you use cable.. it works fine.. except for the fact that the numbering system of channels is very strange.. like 22.3 for fox.. or 76.5 for syfy.. if you can live with this fine. I didn’t care for it because I had to learn where the channels were that I wanted to watch.. plus.. the dvr function.. at the time I bought it.. would only work if you used an external antenna.. not with cable. The supplied antenna – was able to get 1 (one) channel to pull in to watch (and mind you I live close to Houston).. and another antenna I owned which normally could draw in about 22 channels.. was only able to get about 2 channels using the tuner. I was very disappointed that a company could make such rubbish. First thing, out of the box was an update which wasn’t terribly bad but still.. I would have thought it might have improved the service this thing provided. So, needless to say.. I re-visited wal-mart and enjoyed wasting my money on something else..

By: Paulie Walnuts

Paulie Walnuts — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:59:36 +0000

I’m already reading Boxee t.v. customers are being duped . Tons of bugs and NO customer support.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:04:54 +0000

I have one of the 1st BoxeeBox’s and it has worked well in spite of the lax support it has received from Boxee. I do love the Box for being the best all around media streamer out there, so I am happy to have installed BoxeeBox+ and gotten a lot of the improvements we have waited for since day one from Boxee. If you have a boxeebox gathering dust in the closet then get it out and install Boxee+, you will be happy you did. The Hacker community will do a MUCH better job of improving the box than Boxee ever did.