Saturday, March 29, 2014
Boxee Television Offers A Respectable Alternate To Cable
By Cornelius Nunev
Who out there is fed up with satellite, what with the ever-changing prices, dropping channels basic cable has and those god-awful commercials? One might consider having a look at Boxee TV, a web-based television system that can save money and get a lot of the same programming.
Boxee Television makes it hard on cable and simple on consumers
There are a lot of boxes you can choose from that connect with Netflix, Hulu and more and have some sort of DVR function for recording. You just have to hook the box up to Wi-Fi, and you start challenging cable and satellite companies.
A couple of years ago, the Boxee TV got released. It failed miserably. According to Time magazine, the company is intending it again with a new twist. All DVR recordings will be held in the cloud.
DVR services can be added to your Boxee for only $14.99 a month, which is more costly than some businesses but not that bad. On top of that, the Boxee Television only starts at $99 for the box.
An antenna on it already
The Boxee Television receiver has a cable port, so customers can use it as a DVR box and thus an accessory. It also has its own antenna, so publicly broadcast stations like NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and PBS could be picked up. It also comes with native apps for Netflix, Vimeo, VUDU, YouTube and Pandora.
The way it differs from comparable boxes such as Roku or Netgear, which are less expensive by half, is that Boxee Television doesn't have any on-board memory, nor does it require an external hard drive for storage, such as the recently-released Simple.TV, according to CNET. Storage is done via uploading content to a cloud "locker," which consumers can access at any time. It is a dual-code DVR recorder and can record two programs simultaneously. Customers cannot stop live programs, like on TiVo, however.
That said, unlike DVR systems that are hampered by the memory, cloud storage is unlimited. However, getting the DVR service does cost the $14.99 monthly fee, though that's hardly enough to send an individual out for short term loans to cover.
Not accessible to every person
The DVR services on the Boxee TV are pretty exciting, but only some towns 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 LA 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.
Boxee Television makes it hard on cable and simple on consumers
There are a lot of boxes you can choose from that connect with Netflix, Hulu and more and have some sort of DVR function for recording. You just have to hook the box up to Wi-Fi, and you start challenging cable and satellite companies.
A couple of years ago, the Boxee TV got released. It failed miserably. According to Time magazine, the company is intending it again with a new twist. All DVR recordings will be held in the cloud.
DVR services can be added to your Boxee for only $14.99 a month, which is more costly than some businesses but not that bad. On top of that, the Boxee Television only starts at $99 for the box.
An antenna on it already
The Boxee Television receiver has a cable port, so customers can use it as a DVR box and thus an accessory. It also has its own antenna, so publicly broadcast stations like NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and PBS could be picked up. It also comes with native apps for Netflix, Vimeo, VUDU, YouTube and Pandora.
The way it differs from comparable boxes such as Roku or Netgear, which are less expensive by half, is that Boxee Television doesn't have any on-board memory, nor does it require an external hard drive for storage, such as the recently-released Simple.TV, according to CNET. Storage is done via uploading content to a cloud "locker," which consumers can access at any time. It is a dual-code DVR recorder and can record two programs simultaneously. Customers cannot stop live programs, like on TiVo, however.
That said, unlike DVR systems that are hampered by the memory, cloud storage is unlimited. However, getting the DVR service does cost the $14.99 monthly fee, though that's hardly enough to send an individual out for short term loans to cover.
Not accessible to every person
The DVR services on the Boxee TV are pretty exciting, but only some towns 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 LA 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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