The Boxee team, flush with cash and excellent exposure, is seeking feedback on the prospect of directly embedding their experience into a hardware platform. (Of course, you can hack an AppleTV today to run Boxee… If you’re willing to deal with an underpowered system, incapable of Netflix streaming.) The Boxee blog presents several survey items, including the types of features and hardware we’d like to see. Elaborating on my Twitter feedback yesterday, I’d only be interested in a Boxee box that also incorporated an OTA ATSC tuner with DVR capabilities. While most of us are tired of adding boxes to our sets, basic television viewing and recording coupled with the existing media playback and Internet streaming would appeal to me. However, Boxee faces challenges regardless of the path they take, as the field crowds. And there are a finite number of folks interested in running the existing software on a computer.
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