Comments on: Hulu Brushes Off Boxee, and Boxee Comes Back for More

By: Cablevision Promises to Introduce Your PC to Your TV | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:02:20 +0000

[...] Hulu’s attitude about people watching the TV programing it delivers via the Web on a TV screen has ranged from the disapproving to the downright hostile — just ask Boxee. [...]

By: Boxee: Either Jeff Zucker or Jason Kilar Are Lying About Booting Us Off Hulu | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:32:39 +0000

[...] Technology and the Internet subcommittee, asked NBC head Jeff Zucker about last year’s incident where Hulu tried to bar Boxee from using its [...]

By: Web Video Darling Boxee Gets Another $6 Million: Are Zero Revenues and Big Plans Worth $25 Million? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:14 +0000

[...] users, and it’s gotten a lot of attention this year, much of it via a fight with Hulu, which doesn’t want its video showing up on Boxee [...]

By: Why It Took More Than Four Months, and Millions of Dollars, to Get “Lost” on Hulu | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 01 May 2009 15:45:58 +0000

[...] executives at his partner networks — who are the same guys who forced him to cut off Web upstart Boxee, remember — says that the door is shut for CBS, at least in terms of an equity deal like ABC [...]

By: Boxee CEO Avner Ronen Gets a Crash Course in the TV Business | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:36:10 +0000

[...] That’s a long way from happening, but just the notion of it seemed to be enough for GE’s NBC (GE) and News Corp.’s Fox (NWS), who apparently forced their Hulu joint venture to stop working with Boxee last month. Now Hulu and Boxee are in a cat-and-mouse game, where Boxee’s engineers try to find ways to get Hulu’s stuff onto their browsers, and the Hulu guys try to stop them. [...]

By: Weekend Update, 03.07.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:15:54 +0000

[...] Hulu Brushes Off Boxee, and Boxee Comes Back for More [...]

By: Phil Leigh

Phil Leigh — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:10:08 +0000

Actually, Boxee does not make it easy for you to plug the computer into your TV. Instead it provides a different interface that will work with the Apple remote unit. But given all the hassles that Hulu is presenting, it is doubtful that the Boxee interface is easier to use than the familiar browser.

Connecting a laptop computer to the TV puts a familiar browser on the TV. The TV is merely acting as a giant monitor for the computer while the computer is an Internet gateway for the TV. Given a remote mouse and keyboard the user gets a comfortable viewing experience 15 – 20 distant from the TV screen.

The following video demonstrates that the set-up is not complex.

http://insidedigitalmedia.com/.....net-geeky/

Our TVs are becoming dual-function devices. In one context they are conventional televisions and in a second they are giant monitors into the Internet Cloud. It’s similar to the iPhone functioning as a phone when we get a phone call and also functioning as a hand-held Web-browsing device when we visit Websites.

This is Third Generation Television.

http://www.insidedigitalmedia.com

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Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:14:55 +0000

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