Comments on: why we made boxee social

By: LCD TV Blog

LCD TV Blog — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:20:34 +0000

I think you guys are onto a good thing and hope to see continued development in the right direction. The FB integration, atm, is great.

By: John

John — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:08:51 +0000

Isn't a social networking media center/player an open invitation to Hollywood to gather intelligence about who has what unlicensed media (and/or is playing or sharing it)? In the litigious environment of DRM-laden video, "illegal" players, "statutory" damages, and mass lawsuits of consumers, why would anybody use a player that reports what they're doing to ANY central server anywhere?

Or is that boxee's business plan — be bought by the MPAA after accumulating a nice juicy database? The record companies did >20,000 lawsuits, trying to settle each at $3-5000. If MPAA bought Boxee for $40M, they could double their money just by suing every customer whose records showed they weren't being good little "streaming clients".

By: tinkertoytech

tinkertoytech — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:00:23 +0000

alright, how close do I get to replacing my tivo(s) with tivo desktop on the network that up and downloads to/from the pc? and as with twitter, if you don't have any tweeting friends, how do I get anything out of this extra piece nailed on of the social network? The biggest problem I can see atm is that I can go from hulu, et al. directly to my tivo. How close is the media center aspect of the experience is in boxee? Is there the attention to details (creeping featurism) in boxee that there is in say SageTV?

By: qdddmn

qdddmn — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:49:43 +0000

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By: Andreas Setterlind (

Andreas Setterlind ( — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:22:12 +0000

@JoeBorn, XBMC (the framework core BOXEE builds on) uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer as the hardware API so it could be built to use DirectFB/XDirectFB for graphic acceleration (which I assume Neuros OSD2.0 HD supports), but currently XBMC is only designed to run on a x86 CPU (and also begun being ported to PowerPC) so you would have to port it to run on a ARM CPU.

By: avner

avner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:28:06 +0000

@plooger that's exactly how we have it on our roadmap. the current alpha is only reflecting local media in 'recently added'. beta version should start to include stuff from the Internet

By: avner

avner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:26:01 +0000

@Andrew just sent you an invite. will be interested to hear what you think. the social features in boxee are just the beginning. we have lots in the pipeline.

By: avner

avner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:22:48 +0000

@JoeBorn gidon who handles all our BD stuff will reach out to you. would be great to have boxee running on Neuros.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:16:15 +0000

Agreed avner – I think a text input device of some sort will become commonplace as this convergence continues. It's certainly no secret that tomorrow's generation prefers conversation by text. And the Logitech one you referenced definitely seems like a step in the right direction.

If you're still feeling generous: agwsmail [at] gmail [dot] com I'd love to participate and provide real feedback.

By: plooger

plooger — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:06:27 +0000

@avner, thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, "recently" should help me get to the latest media, wherever it resides and however it was published. And then "recently" can be sliced-up in many different ways, by media content type; genre; local vs internet; how recently published, etc.