Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Those Looking To Ditch Cable Should Look At Boxee TV

By Cornelius Nunev


There are a number of people who have had it with satellite and cable. For those types of people, there's a brand new product, called Boxee TV that might be worth looking at.

Boxee TV makes it difficult on cable and simple on consumers

There are many boxes accessible to hook up to your TV. Then, it will record shows if you need it to with a DVR function, and it can access Netflix, Hulu and more through the internet.

A couple of years back, the Boxee Television got released. It failed miserably. According to Time magazine, the company is intending it again with a brand new twist. All DVR recordings will be held in the cloud.

You can pay $99 for the Boxee Television, making it pretty inexpensive, and you only have to pay $14.99 a month if you need DVR services. That is pretty good.

An antenna on it currently

Customers can use the Boxee Television as a DVR box since it has a cable port. It may also be used to pick up NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, CBS and other publicly broadcast stations because it has an antenna. It has applications on it for YouTube, Pandora, VUDU, Netflix, Vimeo and more.

The way it differs from similar boxes such as Roku or Netgear, which are less expensive by half, is that Boxee TV doesn't have any on-board memory, nor does it require an external hard drive for storage, such as the recently-released Simple.TV, according to CNET. Storage is done via uploading content to a cloud "locker," which customers can access at any time. It is a dual-code DVR recorder and can record two programs simultaneously. Users cannot stop live programs, like on TiVo, however.

The box is nice because you have unlimited room for DVR recording. You will not need short term loans to pay the $14.99 fee for it more than likely.

Not accessible to everyone

The DVR services on the Boxee TV are pretty exciting, but only some cities have access to it at the moment, though the business does have intends to expand that in the next year, according to TG Daily. The service is offered in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago, New York and Los Angeles at the moment.

Everyone else can only use it as a streaming device, until DVR services are available everywhere. At that it fails, since other set-top boxes for those who want to cut the cord are much cheaper and have more or the same streaming native apps.




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