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News of the live TV USB device was leaked last week, with Boxee confirming the leak Wednesday. The Boxee Live TV device is running for $49 with no monthly fee and will be available in January 2012. "Plus for people with families where one person is tech-savvy and the others are not - having everything in one place makes it that much easier for everyone to get along," added the Boxee rep. "For our users, having stuff from the Web, stuff from their computers, stuff from their friends, and now stuff from broadcast TV all in one place gives them a consistent experience across all the things they watch. And as "89 of the top 100 shows are on broadcast" - Ronen's satistic, mind you - getting rid of cable can mean putting lots of good TV out of the user's reach.īoxee puts entertainment "all in one place," said a Boxee representative to VatorNews.

But the problem is that live broadcast TV events have a lag before they're on the Internet. Many people are nixing cable TV plans these days, because most cable content is available in relatively cheap online platforms like Netflix or Hulu, explained Ronen. "The stuff on Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Vudu, Vimeo keeps getting better and you can watch it everywhere," said Boxee CEO Avner Ronen via his blog post. The general appeal of Boxee is that it provides the myriad choice of Internet video platforms with the easy viewing of a cable TV hook-up. Now with Boxee Live TV, users can access broadcast TV, too. The service also offers a built-in Spotify application. The "Live TV stick" is a USB TV tuner device that essentially digitizes non-cable channels, like NBC, FOX, and ABC. The user plugs the device directly in to the Boxee Box, sets up the antenna, and gets access to broadcast channels.īoxee's claim to fame is its aggregation of Internet video sites like Hulu, Netflix, and Vimeo for the TV, through it's TV-top hardware called the Boxee Box. Home theatre application Boxee has announced the launch of a new system called Boxee Live TV. You can pre-order Boxee Live TV from the website for $49 to be shipped this month.Boxee ups its game, adding broadcast channels to its Internet video aggregation service Plus, you can browse a listing of the most popular TV show recommendations from other Boxee users. This adds the ability to share live TV shows along with the online content you are already sharing with your Boxee friends. Part of the Boxee experience is sharing what you are watching with other Boxee users. If you don’t want to get rid of cable, you can choose to connect a ClearQAM (unencrypted basic cable channels) to the Boxee Live TV dongle and can set it up to show the shows available from your cable provider. Premium content from Netflix and a variety of other online streaming sources along with your local ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox channels are combined in the Boxee experience. Better than connecting an antenna directly to your TV where you simply surf through channels, connect an HD antenna to the Boxee Live TV USB dongle and browse cover art for TV shows on broadcast TV channels you receive.īoxee believes that by adding live TV, more people will be able to “cut the cord,” that is quit their cable service. To offer an alternative to cable, Boxee offers hundreds of channels of online content, a web browser and now live TV.