Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment

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:or...

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Or make it uncrippled. I heard the Boxee box was more or less a bait and switch making it impossible to add local sources.

In much the same way I prefer Debian over Ubuntu, if you want the real deal just get XBMC. There are plenty of ION chipsets out there that will do 1080p without blinking.

Re:How the heck do I attach to my TV?

[jjohnson]

To limit yourself to a single output method and limit your customer base

... that is growing, while not wasting dollars on investing in the shrinking "legacy connector" customer base.

The more time passes, the more your connectors will be irrelevant, and the less money Boxee will have wasted on trying to capture your smaller and smaller slice of the market.