#Live tv in boxee tv#

If I used to spend $75 on my cable bill, and now IвЂ™m spending $20 that goes right to Louis CK or the NBA or whatever it is IвЂ™m passionate about, I have more control. Boxee will begin shipping its new Boxee Live TV tuners this week according to a post on the companyвЂ™s blog. ThatвЂ™s putting a lot of pressure on intermediaries because it used toa be a lot harder to connect demand to supply. He also offered tickets for his show live at the venue and cut out the middleman. It is a great feature to have so you donвЂ™t miss out on local news, live sports and much-awaited episodes of your favorite shows. Although it has added features, Boxee TV is about half the price (99) of the original Boxee Box. What's more, Boxee TV is unique in the way it records and plays back TV shows. Boxee TV has many of the same features of Boxee TV, yet adds adds a dual tuner and DVR function so it can receive and record live TV. Louis CK sold his comedy-show video online for $5, directly to his fans. The company sells a Live TV tuner add-on to the Boxee box, which lets you access live high-definition TV shows from channels such as such as ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC without paying a monthly fee. Boxee announced its latest innovation, the Boxee TV that will go on sale in November. The Internet created some havoc, but it also made it much easier for artists to have a direct relationship with viewers. Long term, if you look at the media industry, thereвЂ™s reason for content producers to be extremely optimistic. вЂњWe have to make sure the incumbents understand: we are not trying to destroy their business.вЂќ If you can offer ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, and add them to Netflix and Hulu and YouTube, for many people that would be a great experience. What weвЂ™ve seen is that the broadcast networks are still very dominant 96 of the top 100 shows last year were broadcast. Boxee Live TV is an add on for the Boxee Box that connects through the USB port and allows you to connect a regular television source either from an over. ThatвЂ™s why we decided to concentrate on providing the broadcast networks to our users. Just telling people, вЂYeah, you should go ahead and cut the cordвЂ™ without being able to watch the Olympics or the American Idol finale doesnвЂ™t work. вЂњWhen we started, we werenвЂ™t as intimately familiar with how this industry worked.

BoxeeвЂ™s recent tuner add-on lets users of the Boxee BoxвЂ“an open-source media-streaming deviceвЂ“watch HD broadcast stations on their televisions.