If you have a computer, I will show you how to get rid of your cable/satellite and not miss a thing. You can watch all the TV episodes and movies you want via your hard drive or the internet.
Hopefully you've heard of Boxee by now. Basically its the latest and greatest in multimedia entertainment. Boxee works on PC, Mac, Linux, and AppleTV.
Watch this video:
Here's a few highlights in case you missed it (and Boxee has new stuff since this video):
- Automatically scans your hard drive and network to add videos
- Automatically adds artwork, organizes media, and provides info/trailers
- Streams videos straight from Hulu
- CBS.com video (including MacGyver, Price is Right, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, etc...)
- MTV
- Youtube (which now has select full length movies and TV shows)
- Control it with your remote (ATI Remote Wonder, Logitech, iPhone, etc...)
- Plays ANY kind of video (AVI, divx, xvid, mkv, mp4, dvd ISO images, etc...)
- *New* Pandora Radio
- *New* Netflix
An much, much more!
If some of you are using Windows Media Center (Vista or XPMCE), the only advantage it has over Boxee is that it can act as a DVR. Other than that, Boxee is the most extensive media center.
I prefer having TV shows and movies downloaded to my hard drive because it loads faster and is organized in one place. In case you forgot, I reviewed how to download TV shows here, and movies here.
Here's how to get Boxee:
- You must first sign up for Boxee over here
- For Macs or Ubuntu Linux, go over to Boxee download and grab the appropriate version
- For appleTV, follow the directions found here. BTW, given the nature of the AppleTV box and cost, this is the easiest Boxee to run.
- Boxee is in closed testing mode for PC users. Fortunately for you, I Spoon have acquired the latest PC Boxee version for you at Rapidshare. You can sign in just fine to Boxee with your newly created Boxee account.
Notes:
- If you have TV episodes downloaded, make sure to format them correctly (Season 2 episode 13 is not good enough. The correct way is: S02E13). Otherwise, Boxee might label some TV shows as movies.
- **Boxee can play dvd's that you have ripped to your computer. I'll post about how to rip movies to your hard drive later.**
- If you have tons of movies/TV shows like I do, it may take a few hours to automatically recognize your library.
- Macs run version 0.9.11.5774 and Ubuntu Linux runs version 0.9.11.5777
- Boxee for the PC can sometimes crash unexpectedly more than the Mac/Linux version. That's because its developing slower (version 0.9.9.5324)
If you have a computer, I will show you how to get rid of your cable/satellite and not miss a thing. You can watch all the TV episodes and movies you want via your hard drive or the internet.
2 comments:
But you will miss all of those great TV commercials!!! How can we get those?
Sorry, I had to say it... oh and you miss sporting events because they aren't anywhere online....
That's true about sports. Most playoff games and championships are on torrents, but not the small games. I'll see if there's anything on that.
btw, that video makes me wonder every time when he says it adds your videos automatically. I swear he's saying auto-magically
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