Redux.com brings new vision for TV programming to Boxee
Today we add a huge new content discovery application to Boxee from the guys at Redux.com
As David McIntosh, the founder of Redux, will tell you, there’s 20 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute. Within the heaping pile of user-generated content, probably lies a tiny nugget of golden, undigested, raw goodness. Do I want to dig through hours of video and photos to find it? No. That is the Internet’s job. This is where Redux comes in.
Redux lets people create channels of content around certain subjects like Internet memes, favorite shows, music, celebrities, and art… Once a channel is created, other users can submit content into it. A few popular channels from Redux: 110% Awesomeness, Best Music Videos Ever, Art, WTF?, Fail Moments, Top Gear videos. All submissions are timelined, and can be played back to back as a playlist. Users can also give props to their favorite content as well as comment on it, which bumps the item to the top of the timeline.
On the web, Redux.com has a full-screen “TV Mode” that endlessly plays crowd-sourced videos from a specific channel. Don’t like one video, hit the arrow key, and skip to the next. It’s great for killing some time and catching up on the latest memes – whether you’re in a specific channel, or just watching all items as they’re submitted in real-time.
They’ve brought TV mode to Boxee and created a great app. Anyone can run the app and start watching channels while Redux users can login to their accounts to get a more personalized experience. The controls are a bit different than you’re probably accustomed to as there’s no Boxee on screen display, and hitting ESC or back will actually switch between full screen and menu mode. To get out of the app you can select “Exit Redux”. Let us know what you think!
Favorite use case so far: Getting all of the PSAs to play back to back from the GI Joe PSA’s channel. Porkchop Sandwiches anyone?
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Gross.
Great application!! Any comments on the VEVO app?
Hooray! Love it.
Gunna go celebrate by sitting back and searching for “cats”.
It looks nice, but I can’t deal with the non-standard controls. My remote mouse only has so many programmable buttons!
I love that you keep adding content and new ways to find what you’re looking for. What I feel is still missing, though, is the ability to channel surf. What I really like about Boxee is the ability to flip through Internet content from the couch via my remote, and as much as I like the ability to get shows on-demand, the thing I miss most about cable is the ability to flip through channels at random and find interesting stuff I wouldn’t have chosen. Boxee keeps perfecting the tools to find exactly what you want without considering the beauty of the “chance encounter” with content.
Seems like it’d be easy to add a channel surfing mode that randomizes the thousands of items you’ve aggregated, so you can go surf through them at the touch of a single button.
Well this application it is the closest thing to channel surfing that I have found. I think it is great because it allows you to “tune” in this channels they have and you discover new stuff in you tube.
I’m not a big fan of the non-standard controls. There’s no flow with this app.
…also ESC should exit/back me out of any app. I shouldn’t be force to have to click some “exit” link to do it.
One of the channels I’ve loved so far is the short films channel: http://redux.com/stream/channel/shortfilms
Has some awesome stuff and lots of different films
Your blog made me think of a quote: “Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work, by All Capp”
Think it over my friend
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