Boxee is launching a… (wait for it) BOX!
Yeah! I love Boxee, but instead of just watching it my Mac, it’s mind blowing when hooked up to the large plasma in the living room! So I have been running it on an Apple TV with a hack (anyone interested do a search for ATV Flash, from Firecore), which is great for the most part, but the hardware is just too slow for HD shows, which lag and jerk a fair bit, so I was super pleased to hear that Boxxee is launching it’s own “box”: According to Engadget: Color us shocked and elated. Boxee, the white-hot startup that has risen from nothing to everywhere thanks to its...
read moreOnline TV Shows are trending towards a subscription only model
It has been fascinating watching the tentative forays of broadcast networks coming to grips with putting TV shows online. Many Gen-Yers are taking the trend towards placing all TV content online for granted, and perhaps in the larger strategic sense it makes perfect sense for advertising industry and broadcasters to team up in order to take advantage of the Internets capacity to deliver more targeted advertising content. However, robust business models for incorporating profile driven advertising for TV shows do not really exist yet, and the jury is still out on if this translates into buyer...
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