Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Content producers try to limit Boxee, the media center conversion software

Boxee a software that can convert computers, Apple TVs and other
products into media centers is being restrained by the major studios
content owners. The big feature here is a free access to Hulu's entire
catalog on your TV. Boxee now announced that Hulu will no longer be
supported.

From Boxee blog:
"two weeks ago Hulu called and told us their content partners were
asking them to remove Hulu from boxee. we tried (many times) to plead
the case for keeping Hulu on boxee, but on Friday of this week, in
good faith, we will be removing it. you can see their blog post about
the issues they are facing. "

Again how much handle you, as a producer have, on a free content on
other media outlet. This software is allegedly easy and intuitive - If
that means fewer ads and the link to partner sites is not as strong as
login to Hulu.com directly through a computer, then you can see the
reasons.

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