Boxee Offers Major New Features to Apple TV Owners

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/01/boxee-offers-major-new-features-to-apple-tv-owners/



Scott Davilla has released a method to (relatively) easily install Boxee onto your existing Apple TV. The process involves using the atvusb-creator software (Intel Mac only) to create a bootable USB drive which you plug into your Apple TV. That bootloader will subsequently patch your Apple TV to install the Boxee interface as a separate menu option in addition to the existing Apple TV functionality.

Boxee is a free personal media center that offers an alternative and flexible media browser for several platforms. Boxee originated from the XBox Media Center project but has added social networking features and multiple platform support, now including the Apple TV. CNet took an early look at the software back in June and thought it was going to be the "next big thing" in media center software.
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So what does Boxee do? If you've ever used Joost, it's somewhat similar. You can plug in feeds of Web videos and browse through them, complete with video thumbnails and meta data. What makes it different is that it taps into your local media like videos, photos, and music you have saved on your hard drive. Both layers of media (online and offline) are wrapped up together with a social network of other Boxee users, so if you like something you're watching you can recommend it to friends.
While the social networking features are nice, Apple TV owners will also enjoy the ability to browse media on their compuetrs, across a network, or on the Internet and playback a wide variety of video/audio formats including hard-drive saved DVD video with menu support. iTunes protected content, of course, is not available under Boxee, but those can still be played with the original Apple TV menu options which are preserved.

A demo video shows off the interface for Boxee. Boxee remains in alpha testing, so users should proceed with caution. At present Boxee is invite-only but users can easily apply and we've been assured that they will try to issue invites "as quickly as possible".

http://blog.boxee.tv/2008/10/01/xbmcboxee-on-apple-tv/

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this looks cool

i think this is great for apple tv owners

yeah that looks pretty neat. maybe we will check it out one day.

let's hope apple doesn't try to stop this

this seems great

i bet there are a lot of apple tv owners out there who have this installed

i think so too, i don't think apple will stop this, but they might

they might

yeah i doubt they will stop it.

you never know with apple

i don't think that they will stop it either

yeah, hopefully i can try out apple tv one day.

i would like to as well

how different is it from regular tv?

it's nothing like regular tv. you watch either movies or tv shows that you buy from the itunes store or put on the apple tv yourself

it's not like regular tv, but you can watch tv shows on it, lol

still, if anyone is interested, you can check it out at your local apple store

oh ok. so then why would a person want apple tv then? seems like a waste if you have regular tv

movies, movies, movies

if you have movies, music, photos, or podcasts you want to show people on a big tv, you can use your apple tv to get you multimedia from your mac wirelessly, and also instead of going to blockbusters or netflix, you can buy a movie from itunes and transfer it directly to your apple tv

those are just a few things that you can do

just go to apple.com and read about it

From the Internet straight to your living room
Apple TV turns your living room into an on-demand movie theater. With a few clicks of the remote, you can rent HD movies from the same place you watch them — your widescreen TV.

thats cool i guess. but i think i better just stick with regular tv and dvds.