mattlehrer: bijan: Boxee Blog » Boxee Beta Goes Public, Download Now The Boxee beta goes public today. Follow the link and you can download it to your Mac, Windows or Ubuntu machine. New UI and loads of new functionality. Check it out! The UX/UI improvement from the alpha is enormous and I know they are just getting started. It couldn’t be a better time to cancel your cable. ESPN pushes back hard against anything that threatens their cable subscriptions.  (They charge cable companies more per subscriber than any other content provider.) I don’t understand why they can’t offer ESPN360 on its own for now at $5/month for a niche audience:  either they’ll make additional revenue from cable subscribers who want more access or they’ll replace one revenue stream with another from people who cancel their cable. (Cancellations are unlikely in the short-term because cable providers simply charge more for internet access when services are not bundled.  Sometimes it even costs more to have only one service than to have two.)
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Boxee Blog » Boxee Beta Goes Public, Download Now

The Boxee beta goes public today. Follow the link and you can download it to your Mac, Windows or Ubuntu machine. New UI and loads of new functionality. Check it out!

The UX/UI improvement from the alpha is enormous and I know they are just getting started. It couldn’t be a better time to cancel your cable.

ESPN pushes back hard against anything that threatens their cable subscriptions.  (They charge cable companies more per subscriber than any other content provider.)

I don’t understand why they can’t offer ESPN360 on its own for now at $5/month for a niche audience:  either they’ll make additional revenue from cable subscribers who want more access or they’ll replace one revenue stream with another from people who cancel their cable.

(Cancellations are unlikely in the short-term because cable providers simply charge more for internet access when services are not bundled.  Sometimes it even costs more to have only one service than to have two.)

Source: blog.boxee.tv

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  1. anpanism reblogged this from fred-wilson
  2. joshcairney reblogged this from makingofmovies and added:
    It’s finally here and it’s running so well!
  3. charllieblack reblogged this from makingofmovies
  4. riccardo-la-rosa reblogged this from bijan and added:
    the windows version still looks like the alpha version 0.9.20.10261. Your screenshot look much better
  5. dauthan reblogged this from catbird and added:
    I’m giving Boxee a shot. It didn’t get off to a good start - the first two times I opened it, it crashed. However, I...
  6. suzzlo reblogged this from makingofmovies and added:
    Amazing improvements!
  7. thebrianhayes reblogged this from fred-wilson and added:
    I’ve been using this for a couple of weeks now and not only is this 1,000,000 times better than the old version but...
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  9. robbiemitchell reblogged this from mattlehrer and added:
    ESPN pushes back hard against anything that threatens their cable subscriptions. (They charge cable companies more per...
  10. fourstorylimit reblogged this from fred-wilson and added:
    Flippin’ sweet. Getting it now.
  11. chrshrrs reblogged this from catbird and added:
    Looks like I should give boxee a try again? Used it a while ago and mostly didn’t see the point, and then i tried...
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  13. catbird reblogged this from fred-wilson and added:
    This is already is 1,000,000,000% improved over the prior version I had installed.
  14. makingofmovies reblogged this from fred-wilson and added:
    bijan:Boxee Blog » Boxee Beta Goes Public, Download Now
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  16. mattlehrer reblogged this from bijan and added:
    UX/UI improvement from...alpha is enormous...I know they are...
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