Boxee plugs into Joost, MTV Music

Boxee, one of the more promising media applications out there today, is announcing the launch of a few new content sources today at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Boxee now has added support for content from Joost and MTV Music. Joost is bringing its usual assortment of video content to the table, while MTV provides a huge amount of music videos. In the United Kingdom, Boxee has also added the BBC's popular iPlayer to its arsenal of content.

In addition, Boxee will be totally opening up its Mac, Linux, and Apple TV alphas to anyone who wants to sign up. The Windows version, however, will not be entering an open alpha, but rather an invite-only alpha while it scales.

Boxee, for those of you who don't know, is a media application that can act as a player for content on your computer or, where it really shines, as a conduit for viewing Web video from a variety of sources. Video sites that currently have a plug-in on Boxee include Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, CNN, Apple Movie Trailers, Revision3, CBS, Comedy Central, and more.

Boxee really does a great job of handling all of these different sources of content and presenting them in an easy-to-navigate way. In addition to these video sources, Boxee also integrates music sites such as CBS' Last.fm and Shoutcast. (Editors' note: CBS publishes CNET News.)

As you can see, there's a lot to be excited about here.

MTV Music rocks Boxee.

(Credit: Boxee)

After its excellent implementation of Netflix instant streaming, people have been begging Microsoft to bring Hulu and other video sites to the Xbox. Boxee is beating Microsoft to the punch, even offering a Netflix implementation that is more full-featured than the Xbox's.

If Boxee can find a way to get its software off of computer monitors and on to more TVs (as it is doing with Apple TV), I think we could be looking at the next big contender in media software.

Joost gets the Boxee treatment.

(Credit: Boxee)

[divisionbyzero]

Mac csers could also just put Boxee on a mini. It would be fairly unobtrusive in a living room. Of course it costs more than AppleTV but you can also do DVR on a mini which you can't with AppleTV. However everyone should wait a bit till the new mini is released which should be RSN.

[mpitogo]

I've got boxee, on my macmini connected to an HDTV. The macmini does EyeTV with HD ATSC programs, boxee for online content and frontrow for local library content stuffed into a 500GB 2.5 HDD. I wish them well and success on boxee.

[nukepicnic]

the only problem with a macmini over an Apple TV is the lack of HDMI connectivity... the Apple TV picture looks fantastic whereas the Macmini pictures I've seen are a bit fuzzy... (of course it wasn't my setup I was looking at, so who knows what the settings were on the connection)... can someone with a macmini comment on how they connect to an HDTV and what the settings are and how clear their picture is for HD content? Just curious since I've already got an Apple TV that I'm relatively happy with...

[nuteav]

Yes the future is now in interactive tv's. There is a huge movement of users and companies to bring the whole web to the TV full force. Internet tv and web browser is here and lets face it, its going to be great.
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