Boxee API Kicks Video Out Of The Box
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I have been trying to get myself excited about Boxee for sometime now. The idea is sound, but when they lost support from Hulu, suddenly I found myself wondering why in the world I would be interested in what Boxee had to offer anymore? So they have released an API. Okay, where is the benefit? Because honestly, I am not sure why I would care at this point?
Considering Hulu has sent them packing and I have not seen any other content that would compel me to use them over say, Miro, who has enough content to at least keep my interest through any software glitches.
Boxee’s loss of Hulu is not a good thing in any way shape or form. And in my estimation, the longer it is that Hulu is away in the legitimate sense, the harder this is going to hurt Boxee as it will be a software provider with no content. While I realize that Boxee has other content channels available, I would say that without Hulu, no one is going to bother using anything Boxee has to offer.
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Jeremy
April 8th, 2009
at 10:09am
Unless Hulu wants to start blocking every Mozilla based web browser, they cannot block boxee. Hulu’s content providers need to realize that boxee is just another ‘web browser’ and a TV is just another computer monitor, the separation that was there in the past is no longer valid for the present.
Jeff Blais
April 8th, 2009
at 8:25pm
Boxee does still have Hulu support, just not as “natively” as they did in the past. Also you may want to watch their NYC meetup video. They did make some great announcements about some things that are coming. They were not astounding but they are definitely moving the right direction. People need to remember that Boxee is still in Alpha and has a long way to go before it is really ready for primetime.
Mike
April 8th, 2009
at 8:47pm
You stated several times in this article that Hulu support isn’t in Boxee. While there have been some ups and downs, for the most part, Hulu support has been there. Since the switch to XUL-based access, it has been solid. And while it isn’t ‘native’, it is provided via the App Box API as is everything else. The user doesn’t see any difference. Just go to Videos -> Internet -> Hulu Feeds.