Today we’re announcing a new partnership with Sonic Solutions, the guys behind RoxioNow, who are the guys behind digital delivery for companies like Best Buy (CinemaNow), Blockbuster, and Lionsgate to name a few. That’s a a lot of guys (and girls too), and we don’t want you to miss out on any of them.

This alliance with Sonic will enable us to partner with some of the best known content providers and deliver more premium content on Boxee over the coming months.  As users, we’re huge believers in the power of choice – we want you to be able to use any web service you’d like on Boxee to view content and this partnership opens a big door to making that possible.  RoxioNow serves a broad range of premium content to a growing ecosystem of home and mobile devices including PCs, connected TVs, set-top DVRs, Blu-ray Disc players, smartphones, and mobile devices.

We will be licensing Sonic’s RoxioNow entertainment platform across all Boxee-enabled devices to let us partner with companies who can deliver huge catalogues of digital content including brand new movie releases to users in HD with 5.1 surround sound.  Stores powered by RoxioNow enable users to instantly rent and purchase content to be watched watch on multiple devices so eventually you’ll be able to purchase a movie on Boxee through a RoxioNow store, then watch it on multiple devices in your house or on the go.

While the platform integration with RoxioNow is already in the works, you’ll begin to see RoxioNow partner content appear on Boxee over the coming months… and in time for the Boxee Box by D-Link launch.

-Andrew

Earlier this week we got confirmation that the Boxee Box by D-Link will ship this November in US and Canada. We realize many of you have waited months to purchase the Boxee Box, and we know how frustrating this is. Believe us when we say that both Boxee & D-Link want to start selling Boxee Boxes yesterday.

The original plan was to have the Box out by the end of Q2 (i.e. just about now), but that time-frame proved overly ambitious.

Our vision is to make the Boxee experience on a set top box as good as (and where we can, better than) the one you already know on a PC. The goal is to play HD videos from the web or a local network in 1080p and use hardware acceleration whenever possible. And to provide a TV browser experience that can handle almost everything you throw at it, including Flash 10.1. Not to mention making all this happen for an affordable price and on a quiet device that will not feel obsolete 12 months after you buy it.

We are looking forward to the  November launch with D-Link and believe it will deliver a user experience that sets the standard for accessing stuff from the Internet and from your home network on your TV.

Moving forward we want to keep you up to date so we will share progress via Boxee’s Development Blog and the Boxee Box by D-Link Fan Page on Facebook.
In the meantime, it feels good to have a date set for the release of the Boxee Box, and we can’t wait to get it to you.

My Damn Channel and it’s cavalcade of award winning shows have just stormed the beaches at Boxee.

With over 1500 original videos, My Damn Channel makes Miley Cyrus look like a peanut with comedy from huge names like David Wain, Sarah Silverman, Illeana Douglas, the Sklar brothers, Harry Shearer, and Coolio to name a few.  They’ve even got a channel dedicated to all original music run by Don Was. My Damn Channel acts as both an entertainment studio that creates its own content and as a new media platform empowering comedians, musicians, and filmmakers to co-produce, distribute, and monetize original episodic video.   All you really need to know they make fresh original videos you can now enjoy from your couch thanks to Boxee.

As part of their launch on Boxee, My Damn Channel has given us exclusive off-site rights to the latest episode of David Wain’s award winning series Wainy Days for the next week!  While many say the show is David Wain’s excuse to make out with a myriad of beautiful women like Amanda Peet and Elizabeth Banks, others know that Wain has played a key role in crafting some of the most original comedies of the past 15 years including The State, MADtv, Stella, Strangers with Candy, and movies like Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer.  Wain is just one of the stars that’s chosen to call My Damn Channel home, which is why we see My Damn Channel as one of the leaders challenging traditional TV distribution.

You can see the new video with Megan Mullally (best known as Karen from Will & Grace) right now on Boxee – check out the featured section on your Boxee home page!

Outside of Wainy Days my favorite has to be You Suck at Photoshop! – never before have photoshop tutorials, drama, and comedy been so well dodged, burned, and blended. Check it out now on the My Damn Channel App for Boxee.