Long the nerd connoisseur ’s do - it - all media software , Boxee has bigger ambitions . Not justa box . But the conquer - the - whole - world , embedded - on - every - TV variety . And the newest waiver of Boxee looks mighty subject of doing just that .
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The UI ’s been redesign with a new family page ( up top ) , that ’s divided into three section : The provender , which pulls in telecasting and picture recommendations from your friends via Twitter and Facebook ; Featured content , which is stuff Boxee highlights ; and the waiting line , where you ditch everything you want or design to look out ( for instance , you could add up the video recording from any entanglement page to your queue with a Boxee bookmarklet ) .
The other major UI change is the fresh spheric carte du jour , which’ll like a shot drop you into any of Boxee ’s major sections , like moving-picture show , photograph , goggle box or your favorites .
What looked impressive during the demo was how cleanly it aggregate both local and on-line sources of video content — that is , it garner and treats all video the same , whether it ’s from Netflix or on your heavy cause . It ’s just all one big , searchable program library . TV shows are organized more cleanly , too , by seasons and sequence .
Boxee ’s pushing its “ apps ” hard , and there ’s a few new 1 , like the Suicide girl one here — essentially , they ’re custom-make browsers that drop off you into video or picture or whatever . Clicker is in all likelihood the most interesting , in that it ’s a video show search railway locomotive of sorts , scouring the web for display from multiple content source , gain it easy to drip into your Boxee queue .
On the technological side , Windows users will be a mountain happier , since the backend has been rewritten to practice DirectX instead of OpenGL , and it supports full graphics quickening from Nvidia ’s Ion chip , mean brassy PCs will be able-bodied to play 1080p TV through Boxee . ( Which make us opine even more powerfully thatthe Boxee boxis gon na be an Ion - base machine .
We ’ll see more of the Boxee box tonight , hopefully , and emphatically more at CES next month , where it ’s gon na make its full debut . Which is where we ’ll hear more about Boxee ’s other “ machine partners , ” who ’ll be sticking Boxee on their own boxes in 2010 . In other words , Boxee may very well be the next Netflix rain buckets app — plant on anything that ’ll do by it , from TVs to Blu - beam players .
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