Boxee @ CES Wrap-Up
6 days, 4 awards, 2 booths, 1 suite, dozens of meetings, hundreds of interviews, thousands of demos, multiple all-nighters… The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was a mixture of excitement, adrenaline, exhaustion, and a lot of hard work. Quotes like this one from the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones about the Boxee Box by D-Link make it all worth it though, “finally we had a device that could do what few in the tech industry have managed – make Apple’s rival product look distinctively second best.”
First and foremost. a big thank you to all of our users who have carried us this far, especially those who have been vocal about what they love about Boxee and what we could do better. We continue to rely on your feedback to improve Boxee and bring connected devices into the living room that are driven by your needs.
Secondly, it’s been great working with D-Link and Nvidia on our first hardware device, the Boxee Box. Now that it’s been announced, we can’t wait to bring it to market in the 2nd quarter of this year. Meanwhile our BD team is hard at work ensuring Boxee will arrive on TVs, game consoles, and other living room devices soon.
As a quick recap, here’s some of the awards and articles we garnered over the course of the show…
Awards:
LAPTOP’s Best of CES 2010: Best Home Entertainment – Boxee Box by D-Link
Winner Last Gadget Standing
Best of CES: Popular Science Products of the Future
CEA Best of Innovations: Home Theater Accessories
G4 Best of the Best at CES
Dave Graveline’s Top 10 @ CES
CNet Best in Show Finalist: Home Theater
Articles:
BBC – dot.Rory: CES 2010: Last Gadget Standing
CNN – Boxee Box crowned ‘Last Gadget Standing’ at CES
NBC Washington – Boxee Box Just Made Couch Potatoes’ Lives Even Easier
Wired.com Gadget Lab – Hands-On With the Boxee Set-Top Box and Remote
Engadget – Hands-on with the Boxee Box
Scobleizer: Part I — Hot Startups to Watch in 2010
TechCrunch – Boxee Beta Now Available To The Masses
Lifehacker – First Look at the Boxee Beta – Boxee beta
Gizmodo – Beta Now Available for Public Download, Box Has Tegra 2 Chip
Mashable – Boxee Beta Goes Public and Boxee Box Specs Revealed
Ubergizmo’s Best of CES
…more from Google
Videos:
Here I am presenting Boxee at Last Gadget Standing. The intro video was streamed from Adult Swim’s site for Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job (a recommendation if you ever enjoyed Mr. Show with Bob & David).
And here’s Avner running through a demo of Boxee’s Beta software at the D-Link booth.
Photos:
We had a pretty busy booth… lots of people came over to get demos and hear more about Boxee and the Boxee Box by D-Link.
(to see 3 photos from the show and 36 other photos of us partying… go here)
We couldn’t have asked for a better start to 2010. Thanks for all the support and we look forward to bringing you much more in the months to come!
*Special thanks to Boxee users @BobSuicide, @JaylinSuicide, and @iMelody who worked our booth with an air of professionalism, intelligence, and passion we could not have paid for.
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Congrads dudes… you all know I’ve been a HUGE cheerleader since damn near day one, and it’s great to see you all get everything you deserve! Here’s to a great Boxee experience in 2010!
thanks. we’re super excited about 2010!
Thanks for having me again, guys. This next year is looking super bright for the digital living room, and I have a feeling that open source and consumer choice is leading the movement.
was great working (and partying) together. see you again soon.
–The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades–
LOL
Congratulations. I’ve become a recent boxee convert after all the publicity surrounding the boxee box lead me to install the beta version on my laptop. I’m very impressed and have definitely found my next media streaming device! Looking forward to seeing what boxee brings in the near future.
thanks and welcome. we have big plans and lots of ideas, so it should be a great 2010
Bring on the box already!
Wow game consoles? Does this mean the xbox will get even more BAD ASS? Sorry P(iece)S(hit)3
we’d love to run Boxee on PS3. need to convince Sony though.
Just make it powerpc compatible and ps3 owners can run it using linux.
Please send me an e-mail. We are the biggest marketing company with distribution in all the major retailers in Southern Africa and would like to discuss selling the Boxee for you here.
People of Boxee: Congratulations on the great success at CES! You guys are crushing it.
Avner,
Last year, I stopped by your booth and discussed Boxee with your team. I knew that your product would be the next big thing and this years show has proven that so.
Good Luck,
Ronan
PS. I use Boxee on 6 machines at home and work.
No Hard Drive? Unbelievable. This sounds like nothing more than a WDTV clone. Why not at least have an internal SATA connector so users could add a hard drive themselves. I hate to say Im disappointed. I have been looking the last two years for a media player that has a good, easy to use UI, access to online and streaming content and an internal storage solution where I could store my entire DVD/Music/Photo collection. One box that does all media. I was hoping finally the Boxee Box would be able to do something all these other media players couldnt. Eventually some company is going to get it right.
I tried out the beta and it looks pretty slick–only a very few minor glitches.
BUT… A number of the providers refuse to send content (ABC, NBC, Hulu–I’m talking to you!). Until that gets straightened out, this is only merely interesting, rather than world-changing. (And I’ll continue to surf the net in my spare time, rather than returning to TV-watching again.)
Technical detail: I’m on a 64-bit Ubuntu box, if that matters.
Awesome!!!
Great interface. Remote is a dream: what a brilliant idea to combine keyboard and pointer.
Bring it on, I have my hard-earned cold cash in my hot-blooded sweaty hand, and ready to roll.
Sign me on!!!
Boxee is great I expect to come to Europe soon, Unfortunately the Hulu and ABC in general all American television networks are not available in Europe. I am from Greece and Internet connections are at very low speeds(the high speed is NOT cheap). To learn people the Boxee should I bother with the subtitles on an open source system with available translations of their users boxee but with more seriousness. many broadcasts, documentary series web series, etc. etc. many people want in all languages an idea and a good website is dotsub.com where each user to translate own language also have the option to translate groups.
We wait more for Boxee we need to see more
(I have the beta with 4 CPU and 4 GB RAM Nvidia 1 GB and works Great)
Well,
I live in France and with my internet and television subscription i get a cool little box called sfr media player.
Guess what i don’t need cables to connect and its run through wifi also it configures automatic my pc and TV. so there’s no work in setting it up or buying cables.
I can also store on line any documents on my pc for life.
Now why has boxee not figured this out yet you seem years behind and have not thought about the Mr average and the masses.
Anyway i tried boxee but i’m not buying cables and the content at best is minimal.!!!
So when is this Boxee device will be available for purchase? I can’t just wait forever.
Congrats! Can’t wait to get the Boxee Box!!
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