Boxee Adds Hulu, CBS and Comedy Central Support to Apple TV
Boxee.tv has announced that they are offering Hulu.com, CBS.com and Comedy Central streaming support into their media management application.
Boxee is a free personal media application that is installable on your Apple TV. Boxee provides your Apple TV with playback support for a wide variety of media types across local networks and the internet. While the process has been simplified, installing Boxee on your Apple TV still requires a multi-step process involving a bootable USB flash drive. Their latest announcement, however, may push some into giving it a try.
Hulu and CBS both offer full streaming episodes of popular television shows. Many of the same episodes are available for purchase on iTunes. Hulu is backed by NBC Universal and is the industry's response to both YouTube and iTunes content. Boxee also coexists with the default Apple TV software which can still be used.
The software is still considered to be in "alpha" so readers should proceed with caution, however, Apple TVs can be easily reset to factory default settings. Our existing invitation thread can be used to ask for invites to the service -- any Boxee user can invite an unlimited number of individuals.
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Hulu.com is U.S. only. I don't know what restrictions CBS and Comedy Central have, but may likely be U.S. also.
No invite requests in this thread, use the invite thread
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Has a great new GUI which is clean and professional looking while also very fast to use, however unfortunately for me it is not as stable as the last release resulting in random crashes that don't appear to have any pattern.
Let me know how everyone else gets on.
It also includes BBC iPlayer, although I couldn't actually figure out how to get it to play a video from iPlayer, pressing play just bought an info screen (although I didn't try for too long)
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Hulu.com is U.S. only. I don't know what restrictions CBS and Comedy Central have, but may likely be U.S. also.
No invite requests in this thread, use the invite thread
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Comedy Central works here in Europe.
Upgraded to the new version last night on a Mac Mini 2GHz Core 2 Duo.
Has a great new GUI which is clean and professional looking while also very fast to use, however unfortunately for me it is not as stable as the last release resulting in random crashes that don't appear to have any pattern.
Let me know how everyone else gets on.
This sounds so awesome. Why does Apple not better support this!? Maybe :apple:TV would be worth actually getting then.
Upgraded to the new version last night on a Mac Mini 2GHz Core 2 Duo.
Has a great new GUI which is clean and professional looking while also very fast to use, however unfortunately for me it is not as stable as the last release resulting in random crashes that don't appear to have any pattern.
Let me know how everyone else gets on.
how do you run it on the mini? do you still need to boot from the stick?
how do you run it on the mini? do you still need to boot from the stick?
It's a normal .app that can be run on any mac and runs in Fullscreen mode (I haven't figured out how to get it to run in windowed mode, mind you). So you just download the dmg, drag the app in to the Applications folder and run it, as you would with any other .app :)There is a "Run Boxee at login" option somewhere in the settings, but I haven't tried it yet.
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