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Jul 27
project out Roku and Boxee, there’s a new kid in town. Due to be released in the next month or so and priced at $129, the Popbox set-top box streams Netflix videos on take, has interactive ‘popapps’ to use on Facebook and Twitter. The clever box can also scans your home neted computers and show your home videos and photo slideshows.
Supplied by Syabas, a global provider of set-top box software and hardware and creators of laurels winning Popcorn Hour C-200, the new Popbox has been configured to cater to the new tech savvy consumers and will be competing with the likes of Roku (famous for inexpensive Netflix-streaming) and Boxee (which just unveiled its $200-ish, D-Link-manufactured Boxee Box).
Popbox Rival To Roku And Boxee
The Popbox interface has navigation tabs along the top of the screen, a row of “popapps” with widgets for time and date, current weather, and Twitter, a “movies” screen that displays notice art and other info from IMDB for any movies that get to be on your local network, and icons for a variety of online streaming services, ranging from Netflix and Photobucket to Facebook, Revisions3 podcasts, and streaming Shoutcast channels.
The Popbox list of more or less 20 providers/partners are:-
BlipTV: Distributes 48,000 independently-produced Web shows
Clicker: An Live Internet TV guide that catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, making it easy to discover what’s usable to watch (and what isn’t) online, where to watch it and what’s worth watching
Eyecon: Enables consumers to connect to their content and seamlessly route it to any compatible playback device in the home
FunSpot: A casual gaming service that offers everything from multiplayer board, arcade and card games to puzzles, strategy and quizzes
Internet Movie Database: (IMDB) A video search railway locomotive that supplies the metadata that integrates a consumer’s video collection with the corresponding movie’s artwork.
Internet Video Archive: The entertainment industry’s in the lead aggregator of movie and TV trailers, game previews and music videos. The channel features 500,000 unique video assets from over 1,200 content providers
Livestation: Live video streams of international news channels to give you more natural selection and perspective where you are.
Mediafly: An Internet service for managing digital media shows such as video and podcasts and downloading them to many types of devices
NextNewNetworks: Producer of online television networks that creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web’s most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming
Photobucket: The premiere site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics
PicoChannel: A service that makes it easy for people to share their personal photos and videos with friends and family on connected TVs and picture frames
Twitter: A free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables consumers to send and read messages up to 140 characters in length
WeatherBug: The leading provider of weather entropy services that manages and operates a proprietary network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking StationsSounds good, although you may have noticed the omission of the correctly Hulu, Syabas would not discuss their plans for future “popapp” except to assure that more are in the works. However do not expect Hulu anytime soon. Hulu are not big fans of sharing their TV shows and streams with third-party TV set-top boxes.