For those of you you haven’t heard, Boxee will be leaving Alpha status and entering into Beta on December 7 at 7pm EST.
Boxee is a cross-platform freeware media center software with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV. It’s a cross between Facebook and the Apple TV. Better yet, Boxee can be easily installed onto your Apple TV by creating a USB patchstick and booting from it while still retaining all the original Apple TV functionality like rentals or purchases from iTunes.
Once installed you get some of the missing features many Apple TV Junkies want to see in the Apple TV such as:
- Support for additional video and audio codecs and containers (such as DivX, ISO/VOB, MKV and so much more)
- Support for streaming media from network shares (such as a NAS)
- Support for streaming media from various Internet sources
- And so much more
Another expected announcement is that Boxee will be partnering with a vendor to embed Boxee software into a standalone consumer electronic device or set top box.
Click here for details on how to signup for early-access to the Boxee Beta.
Stay tuned for our wrapup of the event. Let us know in the comments what you hope to see in the Boxee Beta
