Boxee TV is in stores now, and in its current form, I can’t recommend anyone buy it. Boxee has done this kind of thing in the past with the Boxee Box, which was also basically broken at launch and was slowly fixed with firmware upgrades, but that doesn’t make this acceptable. It performs like an early alpha–as it stands, it is not usable. What does make it bad is that the thing is nowhere near ready for retail. That doesn’t make it bad, though–as a component of a larger cord-cutting scheme, I think it has a lot of merit. The Boxee TV isn’t the one-size-fits-all solution I’d thought and hoped it would be. In its current form, I can’t recommend anyone buy it.But he was kind of right. ![]() I thought he was just trying to play nice with the content providers like Comcast and Viacom, feigning modesty so they wouldn’t see Boxee as an enemy. He said it was just a component, not a complete solution. That’s everything! But Ronen repeatedly insisted that the Boxee TV was not a cure-all for cord-cutters. It would have apps like Netflix and YouTube, sure, but it would also be a Boxee, so it’d play downloaded videos in that great, clean way Boxee always has, and then it’d have this cool new cloud DVR so it could record live TV shows and play them back on any device. ![]() When I spoke to Boxee CEO Avner Ronen in the run-up to the release of the Boxee TV, it was hard not to see the nascent set-top box as the best new tool for those wanting to ditch cable.
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