Less than one month after Hulu pulled its content from the web-to-TV service, Boxee has started fighting back with a pair of new deals for content and distribution. At the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, Boxee announced that it’s now offering 20 to 30 shows from online video service blip.tv...
Media companies could be training consumers to become pirates, Daisy Whitney warns in the latest edition of her New Media Minute. Hulu recently yanked its content from both TV.com and Boxee, a move that might send some consumers over to the dark side to get their TV shows. Daisy shares her advice to...
Online television convergence play Boxee got hit with some bad news: It must remove Hulu from its service at the end of this week. Boxee, which landed $4 million in funding late last year to help make above-board content deals, brings Web sites including CBS.com, CNN.com and ComedyCentral.com directly...
On soap operas, the sexy leads will often kiss, date, mate, hiss, throw things, break up, make up and kiss again. And that works on a soap. But the whole on-again-off-again thing isn’t quite so cute when it comes to the digital television transition. Many consumers are fed up with the mixed messages...
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The Internet has a new designer drug and its name is Boxee. Sure, the name is clunky. And yep, the service is even clunkier. But consider what Boxee does: It brings Hulu to your television set. Boxee is a new service that’s popular among the just-graduated-from-college-crowd and the tech cognoscenti...