Used boxee box for sale5/8/2023 Vudu’s HD On-Demand Movie Service Arrives on Boxee (except for PC, MAC and Linux users!) VUDU’s awesome on-demand movie service will soon be available to Boxee users in the US on Mac, Windows, and Boxee Box platforms.” “Vudu’s HD On-Demand Movie Service Arrives on Boxee It’s headlines like this that really burn. * It’s a deal breaker * – why bother with Boxee or VUDU if HD content is not available? I almost gave my credit card info but was trying to find the promised 1 free movie first and noticed all the free previews – were in SD only – and that led to finding a post where someone had signed up (and created a balance with their credit card) only to discover they could get no HD content. I wish I had found this blog/story before I went to the trouble.īecause no one is forthcoming with the details – that there is no HD on Boxee or VUDU for Boxee users on PC, Mac, Linux. Netflix isn’t perfect, but at least it doesnt fallaciously assume I’m a pirate if I’m using a pc as my media center. I will remain a non-subscriber of VUDU content until I can get that HD content on the device I choose to use, not the one you want me to. It’s because of the deals you’ve signed with device manufacturers, it’s because your parent sells these devices, and dare I say it’s because you just don’t get it. Pardon me, but your assertion that the “content providers” force you to do that is complete and utter bullshit. This is only underscored by the fact that someone running Boxee/VUDU on their computer rather than on an embedded device can only get SD content. The sell TVs, BLU-ray players, and the like as well. Services like Vudu are clearly as much about selling devices as the movie service - Walmart didn’t buy the company just for that. The commenter above has one opinion about having to upgrade i disagree - i’ll happily deL with the minor work of upgrading some software once in a while, if it means I retain some control over what software I use. More importantly, when the monitor is out of date, I’ll upgrade that. When the pc or software is out of date, I’ll upgrade one or both. I carefully and intentionally stuck with my purchase of a plain (but very large and high-quality) plasma set along with a media pc so that I would NOT be forced to accept whatever software that Vizio, Samsung, etc. Also, not everyone wants to leash themselves to a device on which software that is not under their control, provided by the device manufacturer and upgraded or feature-enhanced only by them. Not everyone that uses Linux is a pirate, and many users of Mac and Windows are. Anyone with a brain knows darned well that you’re using Linux to do that it sure as hell isn’t Windows or MacOS! It is common, and completely disingenuous to not support Linux, and then turn around and do just that but only on embedded devices like the Boxee box and various TVs and other such things. I’m technical enough to agree with the last post above asking about Linux support. I’m a Boxee user, also a Netflix customer and the owner of a pc on which I run both Windows Media Center and Boxee.
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