We now have some excellent news and bad news. The excellent news is: Boxee 1.5 would be entering public beta soon, with a suitable release scheduled for January alongside Live TV . The update will finally bring the desktop software up-to-date and deliver the more streamlined UI found at the Boxee Box on your Windows, Mac or Linux computer. The bad news is: this would be the overall version of the HTPCsoftware. Going forward Boxee plans to focus all of its efforts on streaming appliances, like its namesake Box and connected Blu-ray players and TVs. The software will even lack access to premium apps like Netflix, because of the tangled web of DRM woven by content providers. When CEO Avner Ronen said that the downloadable app would, “potentially lag behind the versions of Boxee for devices,” we didn’t realize just how far behind he meant. At the plus side, you can be getting that open source release .
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