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At least the best of all these alpha-release media software 
- Version: 0.9.14.6992, 10/28/2009 05:59AM PST
Emilia
BEWARE! BAD INSTALLER HOSES CRITICAL SYSTEM LIBRARY - Version: 0.9.14.6795, 7/27/2009 02:17PM PST
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summerstormpictures
AFTER INSTALLING THIS VERSION OF BOXEE, I WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON MY HARD DRIVE FOR LEOPARD 10.5.7!
THIS BOXEE INSTALLER DELETES THE CONTENTS OF THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB FOLDER AND LEAVES ONLY THE BOXEE PACKAGE RECEIPT.
THE ONLY WAY I WAS ABLE TO RESTORE PERMISSIONS REPAIR CAPABILITY WAS TO COPY THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB/ FOLDER OVER FROM ANOTHER MAC, SET PERMISSIONS CORRECTLY TO ROOT-ADMIN AND THE PERMISSIONS REPAIR CAPABILITY RETURNED.
THIS IS NOT THE PROPER WAY TO DO THIS, HOWEVER, BUT CONSIDERING THAT A PRE-SNOW LEOPARD 10.5.8 UPDATE IS PROBABLY COMING AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, THIS WILL HAVE TO DO FOR NOW.
THIS IS A CRITICAL THING. I VERIFIED IT BY RUNNING IT ON THE OTHER MAC, BUT BACKING UP THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB FOLDER FIRST, WATCHING IT GET HOSED AND THEN MOVING MY BACKED UP CONTENTS BACK.
Boxee Rocks! - Version: 0.9.11.5774, 7/26/2009 09:29AM PST
libertyforall1776
This is like Apple TV for regular Macs, and it's so much more functional than Front Row -- even better with the free Boxee iPhone/iPod Touch Remote app!
All we need is live OTA (Over The Air) TV streams, and I would be really happy
All we need is live OTA (Over The Air) TV streams, and I would be really happy
requires login/registration - Version: 0.9.11.5774, 6/24/2009 02:55AM PST
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bobics
I don't like the fact that it requires login / registration, so I uninstalled it.
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Excellent TV complement - Version: 0.9.11.5774, 6/9/2009 12:40PM PST
MacCollector
I love this Boxee solution for my new TV set-up. Already in Alpha status and almost everything works perfectly. Got some problems finding any subtitles. But I can wait.
- as many of these media center solutions it is labeled "alpha" and it will probably stay that for ever...
- it comes with yet-another micro-social-network share idea which forces you to "subscribe". However its easy and you can disable most of it.
At first test it was surprisingly stable and had nice feature like labeling all my local TV-series episode automatically. But after some months use crashes are becoming more frequent.
Boxee like other programs promise you easy access to online media, video sites, RSS feeds etc. Its doing fine with popular feeds like Revision3 but fails most of the for user selected feeds. This is not really a surprise as most RSS subscription to video feeds do *not* work with external software but are designed to be displayed in Web-Browsers.
Also the promising build-in Torrent client did not work for me at all. Providing Torrent RSS feeds picked the right files but never managed to download anything.
So for the moment I keep it on the Mac and hope for an update (last version already 5 months old).