ColumnColumn ArchivesColumn: Election Night: The Plane TruthColumn: Rudolph Has a Sexy MamaColumn: Giving Up TV Is No Real SacrificeColumn: Boxee Leads Way to ConvergenceThe Internet has a new designer drug and its name is Boxee. Sure, the name is clunky. And yep, the service is even clunkier. But consider what Boxee does: It brings Hulu to your television set. Boxee is a new service that’s popular among the just-graduated-from-college-crowd and the tech cognoscenti. That also means Boxee might never amount to anything more than a beloved geek product that doesn’t make it to the mainstream. However, Boxee has the potential to pave the way for more defections from the cable mothership to the renegade world of broadband-only video viewers—the world I now inhabit. In the ongoing saga of my current cable-free and over-the-air-less lifestyle, I decided to install Boxee on my AppleTV. You can use Boxee as a sort of one-stop shop that aggregates a ton of online video programming on your computer. But that wasn’t my goal. My goal with this experiment has been to beam—magically or otherwise, but not illegally—as much programming as possible via broadband back to my TV set. Since Boxee loops Hulu, as well as CBS.com, CNN.com and ComedyCentral.com, into AppleTV, I did what any self-respecting new-media journalist would do: I instructed my husband to download the software...More » |
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