The end of MSM

[Elwar]

The Boxee Box (http://www.boxee.tv/box) is the answer we've been looking for to the Mainstream Media.

The box is basically a device that you plug into your TV. You either connect it by wire or through your wireless Internet and you can play all sorts of Internet video channels.

The interface is set up like the Iphone Apps. They have a Netflix App, Hulu App, CNN App, etc.

Basically, anyone can create a Boxee App and deliver content. We could create a new Liberty TV channel to deliver pro-liberty news.

This is the foot in the door of breaking up the MSM monopoly over the news we get on our TV.

The box hasn't started selling yet but from what I've seen, it'll sell for less than $200.

[SelfTaught]

I just hook up my laptop to my HD flat screen TV. Bigger picture, add in the wireless mouse and keyboard, and wallah! Internet TV! Makes watching porn a whole lot more satisfying too since the picture is bigger. Porn and Youtube on my TV, what else could a guy ask for.:D

[catdd]

I just hook up my laptop to my HD flat screen TV. Bigger picture, add in the wireless mouse and keyboard, and wallah! Internet TV! Makes watching porn a whole lot more satisfying too since the picture is bigger. Porn and Youtube on my TV, what else could a guy ask for.:D

Pretty funny.

[reardenstone]

I have been wrestiling with internet TV options for a long time. What really is the best bang for buck solution?

Xbox 360 with netflix?
Wii with the various mods?
playstation 3? (which also plays BlueRay)
Hulu?

We need a thread on this. I only watch about 10 cable channels and would prefer a la carte options or just choosing my own content from online.

[Elwar]

I just hook up my laptop to my HD flat screen TV. Bigger picture, add in the wireless mouse and keyboard, and wallah! Internet TV! Makes watching porn a whole lot more satisfying too since the picture is bigger. Porn and Youtube on my TV, what else could a guy ask for.:D

Ya, I used to have a good setup with my computer hooked up to my TV with an optical audio output that went to my surround sound. It's great for playing video games.

But the average person isn't going to go through the trouble to get that type of setup.

The Boxee is something I could see my technically challenged mother using. You just plug it into your TV and go.

And the interface seems very intuitive, which is important with the older folks. My mom went from calling text messages on cell phones a "tex mex" to getting the iPhone and texting like a teenager.

[reardenstone]

Any idea on the cost?

[Elwar]

I have been wrestiling with internet TV options for a long time. What really is the best bang for buck solution?

Xbox 360 with netflix?
Wii with the various mods?
playstation 3? (which also plays BlueRay)
Hulu?

We need a thread on this. I only watch about 10 cable channels and would prefer a la carte options or just choosing my own content from online.

I have the Xbox 360 with netflix and don't really watch the TV stuff because it doesn't offer much. There is some software that you can pay for that will link Hulu to your Xbox so you can watch TV from there but it's not all that great.

The boxee seems like it's focussed on replacing cable. I've been looking for something like this for quite a while and this is the first (outside of a gaming console) that I've seen.

[Elwar]

Any idea on the cost?

One link I saw said less than $200.

[KAYA]

I just hook up my laptop to my HD flat screen TV. Bigger picture, add in the wireless mouse and keyboard, and wallah! Internet TV! Makes watching porn a whole lot more satisfying too since the picture is bigger. Porn and Youtube on my TV, what else could a guy ask for.:D

Football!

[reardenstone]

Boxee looks good and simple but I tried something similar with the Wii.

Does anyone here use the PS3 for internet and home media? So far the PS3 looks like the best all-in-one option offering games, built in wireless and Blu-Ray.

[lester1/2jr]

Porn and Youtube on my TV, what else could a guy ask for.
a life


jk

[Blueskies]

Boxee looks good and simple but I tried something similar with the Wii.

Does anyone here use the PS3 for internet and home media? So far the PS3 looks like the best all-in-one option offering games, built in wireless and Blu-Ray.

Just build an HTPC. If you don't know how, learn.

[BuddyRey]

I thought I saw someone else on RPF's talking about an alarm-clock with internet streaming capability that would retail for 90 bucks, but I can't find the thread now.

Still, this Boxee idea looks pretty sweet, like an instant window to a world of Public Access TV without local boundaries or government restrictions. Decentralized information, bottom-up journalism, and proletarian punditry. Whoever gets in on the ground-floor with this technology will probably make a killing.

[BlackTerrel]

This is the foot in the door of breaking up the MSM monopoly over the news we get on our TV.

TV news hasn't been a monopoly for a while. It may technically be so but the vast majority of people, especially young people, no longer get their news from the TV anyway. O'Reilly claims great rating when he gets 3 million viewers - Adam Carolla's free podcast on his website gets almost as many downloads. And many YouTube get many many more views.