"We want to pass the babysitter test." says Avner. Rebooting the product as Boxee TV and adding live television and a killer DVR to the mix allows Boxee make a serious claim to input one - and a serious claim to being the go-to device for cord cutters. "We’re not going to spend a lot more energy on that," says Avner. Without TV tuners, those devices have to rely on hundreds of apps to stream content over the top, an approach Avner calls "a failed concept." That was ultimately the problem with 2010’s Boxee Box, a sharp-looking device that failed to gain traction as an app-based media streamer. But that’s input two stuff - Roku and Apple TV territory. There's even a Pandora apps for listening to music. You also get all the other stuff you’d expect, of course: Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo, movie rentals from Vudu. which is a very liberating notion." The downside to putting all the storage in the cloud is that you won’t have much to watch if your internet goes down - Boxee TV doesn’t have any local storage. "The cost of storage is going down all the time. You want six seasons of Seinfeld? Go for it." The vagaries of copyright law mean that Boxee has to upload and store an individual copy of each show to the cloud for each user, but Avner’s not worried about it. "I compare it to moving from film cameras to digital cameras," says Boxee CEO Avner Ronen. Buy three Boxee TVs and you’ll get six tuners. Not enough? Eventually you’ll be able to buy another Boxee TV and have those two tuners record to the cloud as well. You can even start a recording and watch it quasi-live from your phone with a slight delay. Pay $14.99 a month and you get access to a second radical feature: a cloud-based DVR with unlimited storage that lets you play multiple shows simultaneously on PCs, phones, and tablets. Plug the Boxee TV into your existing basic cable line or an HDTV antenna, and you’re watching television using a fast, fluid interface light years beyond anything from a cable company. Boxee Live TV will ship in January 2012 but you can already pre-order your sample here.The new Boxee TV is an unassuming $99 device with a surprisingly radical feature: dual TV tuners. There is no mention of a DVR (recording) function either. Boxee says that the USB dongle only works on the Boxee Box and not with the Boxee Media Center software for PC or Mac. The Boxee Box gets a Live TV USB dongle inn January 2012 The USB dongle works with HDTV signals (using ATSC) or unencrypted cable connections (ClearQAM), and Boxee has also included a portable antenna in the package. The solution makes the Boxee Box one of the few to combine traditional live TV with internet streaming TV such as Netflix, Vudu, Hulu etc. You just plug in the USB dongle to your Boxee Box, plug in your antenna cable to the dongle, and you are all set. The Boxee Box gets a Live TV USB dongle inn January 2012 The solution is really simple. In January – at CES 2012? – Boxee will officially unveil their Live TV USB dongle for the Boxee Box. Live TV dongle for Boxee BoxIf you are a happy Boxee Box owner you can start counting down to January 2011. The USB dongle will be available in January 2012. Boxee has confirmed that they will introduce a USB dongle with an antenna input connector, which means that US users can enjoy live TV from antenna on their Boxee Box.
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