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Hola Hulu!

our forums, twitter and inbox are filled with messages such as “now if I could only play Hulu on boxee…, give me Hulu!, or my personal favorite if you somehow figured out how to make Hulu work… I will kiss you on the mouth. ;) (hey @beiting we figured it out! hope you’re a good kisser)

we just released a new alpha version of boxee that includes:

  • streaming TV shows, movies and clips from Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central and MySpaceTV (we integrated their players into boxee)
  • major changes to the UI
  • web interface to adding RSS feeds
  • improved performance

and yes the new version is also available for Apple TV (click upgrade and its there).

we are very excited and anxious to hear your feedback. boxee is now faster, stronger. there is more work for us to get done before we feel we could call it beta, but we are getting closer. message us on Twitter, comment on this blog, post in our forum. tell us what you think. we’ll listen and go work on the next version based on what you tell us.

already have an alpha account? click here to download the new version.
still waiting for an alpha invite? you may get one today (we’re sending 10,000 new invites), if you didn’t get one ping us on Twitter or and we’ll make sure you get an invite.

in case you’re one of the few billion people who have not signed up for an alpha account click here to do so.

a quick intro video to the new version:


more notable news:

  • we launched a new version of our homepage. now a person visiting boxee.tv will actually know what boxee is doing… (we need to get better at this marketing thing)
  • there is a new version of app.boxee.tv. you can now use it to manually enter RSS feeds that will appear on your boxee client

*** update i: we have just uploaded a version refresh resolving stutter issues on Apple TV. please update boxee if you encounter these issues.

*** update ii: not seeing the new sources under boxee? head to our forum thread on the subject.

*** update iii: issue with some Hulu streams blanking out has been fixed! head to our forum thread on the subject.

October 20, 2008 at 10:00 am

67 Responses to “Hola Hulu!”

  1. Sultan says:

    Amazing! Boxee rocks i also used to watch movies from http://www.watchfreemovieslive.com...
    Boxee is awsome.

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