13 thoughts on “Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup with great ideas and beautiful design failed to conquer the living room”
With a rumored acquisition price of an insignificant $30 million, Samsung effectively pays off the investors in exchange for the Boxee team – an acquihire as I suspected. We’ve been in contact with Boxee, will follow up with their designated new Samsung spokesperson, and post should we learn anything new or interesting.
Oh well. That was fun while it lasted.
I guess I’ll be boxing up the Boxee shortly. The kids will be happy when I put the Roku back in the living room.
Yeah, one of the tech blogs is reporting this morning that Samsung will be shutting down the Boxee Cloud DVR as soon as next week! Great exit,..
the beta Cloud DVR functionality we provided to certain Boxee TV users will be discontinued on July 10th. You will not have access to your existing recordings after that date.
Perhaps the biggest flaw in allowing others to manage your content.
I was thinking acquihire too Dave. They are super smart guys, nice guys too and I’m hoping this is a win/win situation for both sides.
Super nice guys with super buggy software and hardware.
“Super nice guys with super buggy software and hardware.”
Well, if the eventual goal is an acquihire, that’s a feature, not a bug…
Remarkable issues here. I’m very satisfied to peer your post. Thank you so much and I am taking a look ahead to contact you. Will you kindly drop me a e-mail?
Samsung is just positioning themselves to compete with the future Apple Television. It’s smart.
This is why i’d never trust a “cloud” DVR service. As “crappy” as TiVo is, my HDD is upgraded; No bandwidth usage to worry about; my recordings can be played anywhere there is electricity and a TV. No cable outage to stop the viewing recorded shows.
The instructions were easy to understand and everything went into place easily, thank goodness.
If you maintain your belt well and keep it properly lubricated it will not only
make your belt last longer, but also keep your
treadmill running better for longer. One may
also do fast upgrade walking on this specific treadmill.
Should you don’t employ a devoted area at home, a folding
unit may be finest. During the real estate boom,
condos in Sands Ocean Club were bought up like crazy.
twenty five HP constant duty digital generate motor, a large duty incline
motor, a VCS cushion system and a pre-waxed functioning deck that enables for
optimum teaching performance, higher functionality and superior dependability.
Your style is so unique compared to other folks I’ve read stuff from.
I appreciate you for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I’ll just book mark this page.
With a rumored acquisition price of an insignificant $30 million, Samsung effectively pays off the investors in exchange for the Boxee team – an acquihire as I suspected. We’ve been in contact with Boxee, will follow up with their designated new Samsung spokesperson, and post should we learn anything new or interesting.
Oh well. That was fun while it lasted.
I guess I’ll be boxing up the Boxee shortly. The kids will be happy when I put the Roku back in the living room.
Yeah, one of the tech blogs is reporting this morning that Samsung will be shutting down the Boxee Cloud DVR as soon as next week! Great exit,..
not
Boxee themselves have been reporting that… http://www.boxee.tv
the beta Cloud DVR functionality we provided to certain Boxee TV users will be discontinued on July 10th. You will not have access to your existing recordings after that date.
Perhaps the biggest flaw in allowing others to manage your content.
I was thinking acquihire too Dave. They are super smart guys, nice guys too and I’m hoping this is a win/win situation for both sides.
Super nice guys with super buggy software and hardware.
“Super nice guys with super buggy software and hardware.”
Well, if the eventual goal is an acquihire, that’s a feature, not a bug…
Remarkable issues here. I’m very satisfied to peer your post. Thank you so much and I am taking a look ahead to contact you. Will you kindly drop me a e-mail?
Samsung is just positioning themselves to compete with the future Apple Television. It’s smart.
This is why i’d never trust a “cloud” DVR service. As “crappy” as TiVo is, my HDD is upgraded; No bandwidth usage to worry about; my recordings can be played anywhere there is electricity and a TV. No cable outage to stop the viewing recorded shows.
The instructions were easy to understand and everything went into place easily, thank goodness.
If you maintain your belt well and keep it properly lubricated it will not only
make your belt last longer, but also keep your
treadmill running better for longer. One may
also do fast upgrade walking on this specific treadmill.
Should you don’t employ a devoted area at home, a folding
unit may be finest. During the real estate boom,
condos in Sands Ocean Club were bought up like crazy.
twenty five HP constant duty digital generate motor, a large duty incline
motor, a VCS cushion system and a pre-waxed functioning deck that enables for
optimum teaching performance, higher functionality and superior dependability.
Your style is so unique compared to other folks I’ve read stuff from.
I appreciate you for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I’ll just book mark this page.