Boxee Opens Beta To All

DeviceGuru writes "Boxee has quietly moved its long-awaited Beta release onto its public download site, reports OpenBoxeeBox.com. The new version of this free Internet- and local- A/V streaming player currently supports PCs running Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu OSes, with an Apple TV version coming soon. Key enhancements include a vastly redesigned homescreen and new global menu, which collectively make it much quicker to locate content, an improved search function that now treats online and local media equivalently, so you can locate and play movie or TV show titles much faster, plus — at long last — a fully functional Netflix instant-downloads player appears in the Windows version (but not in the Linux version). Also of significance is that Boxee's graphical engine has migrated from from OpenGL to DirectX, allowing it to take advantage of Direct X video acceleration. The free public Boxee Beta A/V player software is available on Boxee's website."

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[HermMunster]

It isn't a beta product. It is still alpha. And alpha it is with tons of problems. They need to hire some usability testers because they made some aweful mistakes that only a programmer would do. As Dave Thomas says ... they hired hackers.

If Boxee is to make it to retail in products they need a lot more work. I used boxee from the time it was released to Alpha more than a year ago and it has been trimmed back as to what features it allows.