Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 1, 2011 @06:47AM from the take-the-money-and-run dept.

DeviceGuru writes "Boxee, maker of the free Boxee multimedia-player software platform for PCs and Macs, and the smarts behind D-Link's recently introduced Boxee Box, has just received $16.5 million more funding. Following several significant firmware updates and the addition of new apps for Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and other content sources, all pushed automatically out to users' devices, the $199 D-Link Boxee Box is finally stating to feel more like a finished product than a beta-test device. What's next for Boxee? The D-Link device will soon be joined by two more Boxee-powered devices: a Boxee NAS device from Iomega and a ViewSonic TV running Boxee, and one of the main uses of the company's new funding will be to 'sign up more device and distribution partners,' says Boxee CEO Avner Ronen."

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Re:How the heck do I attach to my TV? by eric_brissette · 2011-03-01 07:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, it sure is awful trying to hook up blu-ray players, video game consoles, and these new-fangled internet devices to my 1982 Zenith television.
Luckily, Amazon still sells those 75-to-300 ohm adapters with the forks on the end that you have to screw down.
Re:Only good in the USA... by squidflakes · 2011-03-01 07:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Careful mate, returning a Boxee Box on Boxing Day is one step away from creating a linguistic tesseract.