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Boxee Alpha testing for Windows

boxee_logoIn case that you have been living under a rock lately, or running Windows exclusively, you might not have heard about Boxee. Boxee is basically a 10-foot interface for you computer to be displayed on your flat screen tv. Where it differs from most though is that not only is it possible to view your local content (videos, music, pictures, etc.) but you can also view lots of content that is streamed down from the internet.

Boxee is not the first people to do this, the Popcorn Hour device will also do it, but it has a dedicated hard ware device. Boxee can just run similar to Media Center for Windows on top of everything else. Oh and all of the feeds for the internet tv are RSS so you get all sorts of great stuff from Hulu to PBS to Joost and the BBC.

So anyway I signed up a few months back to take part in the alpha phase testing of Boxee on Windows and I got the email last night to download the app. So far they have done a great job, the only issue I have had as of yet is that the items from the BBC would not play last night. But over all I am very happy with it so far.

I will keep everybody up to date regarding the findings as they happen.