Monday, September 2, 2013

Boxee TV Offers A Decent Alternate To Cable

By Cornelius Nunev


There are numerous people who have had it with satellite and cable. For those types of people, there's a new product, called Boxee TV that can be worth looking at.

Boxee Television follows format of Roku, SimpleTV

A number of businesses make and sell web-based television boxes that offer a severe challenge to cable and satellite businesses. The idea is pretty simple; the box connects to Wi-Fi and streams Netflix, Hulu and so forth, and also usually has a DVR function where they can record it.

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

You can pay $99 for the Boxee TV, making it pretty cheap, and you only have to pay $14.99 a month if you want DVR services. That is pretty good.

An antenna on it already

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 apps 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 call for 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.

The box is nice because you have unlimited room for DVR recording. You will not need short term loans to pay the $14.99 fee for it more than likely.

Not available to everybody

The Boxee TV comes with DVR, but that is only accessible in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., New York, Los Angles, Chicago, Dallas and Houston right now. The business plans to expand that in the next year, but not everybody has access to the DVR services.

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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