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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Disgruntled Cable Subscribers Could Consider Boxee TV

By Cornelius Nunev


There are a number of those who have had it with satellite and cable. For those kinds of people, there's a brand new product, called Boxee Television that may be worth looking at.

Boxee Television follows format of Roku, SimpleTV

There are many boxes accessible to hook up to your TV. Then, it will record shows if you would like it to with a DVR function, and it can access Netflix, Hulu and more through the internet.

A couple of years back, the Boxee Television got released. It failed miserably. According to Time magazine, the business is intending it again with a new twist. All DVR recordings will be held in the cloud.

The new Boxee Television also isn't terribly expensive, beginning at $99 for the box. Adding DVR services is $14.99 per month, which is more than some competing models but much less than it would cost with satellite or cable.

Basic cable all you want

Customers can use the Boxee TV as a DVR box since it has a cable port. It may also be used to pick up NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, CBS and other publicly broadcast stations because it has an antenna. It has applications on it for YouTube, Pandora, VUDU, Netflix, Vimeo and more.

According to CNET, Boxee Television is good because it does not have an on-board memory and does not require an external hard drive like other boxes require, such as the newly released Simple.TV. The system does not allow for pausing programs while watching them live on Television, but it does have a dual-code DVR recorder and can record two things at once.

You do have to pay the $14.99 monthly fee, which most likely will not cost you short term loans, if you need to get the DCR service, though it is nice because there are no memory requirements.

Not everybody has access

The DVR services on the Boxee TV are pretty exciting, but only some cities have access to it at the moment, though the business does have plans to expand that in the next year, according to TG Daily. The service is offered in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago, New York and Los Angeles at the moment.

Everyone else can only use it as a streaming device, until DVR services are available everywhere. At that it fails, since other set-top boxes for those who want to cut the cord are much cheaper and have more or the same streaming native apps.




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