Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Those Looking To Ditch Cable Should Look At Boxee TV

By Cornelius Nunev


Who out there is sick of satellite, what with the ever-changing rates, dropping channels simple cable has and those god-awful commercials? One might think about first checking Boxee TV, a web-based television system that can save cash and get a lot of the same programming.

Boxee Television follows format of Roku, SimpleTV

Numerous corporations make and sell web-based television boxes that offer a severe challenge to cable and satellite corporations. The idea is fairly simple; the box links to Wi-Fi and streams Netflix, Hulu and so forth, and also usually has a DVR function where they can record it.

Boxee TV is a new one coming out, but it is a bit different from the rest, according to Time Magazine. The new Boxee TV utilizes cloud storage for DVR recordings, which makes it very different from the TV box it released and failed with a couple of years ago.

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

Simple cable all you need

The Boxee Television comes with applications on it for VUDU, YouTube, Pandora, Vimeo and Netflix, making it really easy on consumers. It also can plug in to the cable port to be used as a DVR box. The other nice thing over it is that it has an antenna, meaning you can pick up ABC, CBS, NBC and other public broadcast stations through it.

According to CNET, Boxee TV is great because it does not have an on-board memory and does not require an external hard drive like other boxes require, such as the newly released Simple.TV. The system does not allow for pausing programs while watching them live on Television, but it does have a dual-code DVR recorder and can record two things at once.

You do have to pay the $14.99 monthly fee, which probably will not cost you short term loans, if you need to get the DCR service, though it is nice because there are no memory requirements.

Limited markets to start

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 promises 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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