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Boxee media center adds Hulu support
by Brad Linder Oct 20th 2008 at 5:00PM
Now that you can stream full length television episodes from web sites like Hulu, it only seems natural that you should be able to access them using a media center application. Or maybe I just say that because I prefer web video and an HDTV antenna to paying for cable.
Microsoft has yet to add support for Hulu, even though you can watch Hulu videos at the MSN Video site. But the developers behind the open source media center applicaton Boxee have done it. The latest version of Boxee was released today and it adds support for streaming video from CNN, Hulu, CBS, YouTube, and Comedy Central.
Boxee is still in Alpha, and you need to request an invite to install it. The software runs on Mac and Linux, and today's update brings support for the AppleTV. A Windows version is expected soon.
You can see a video of Boxee in action after the break.
[via eHomeUpgrade]
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Bill Minton said 10:20PM on 10-20-2008
I think it needs to be mentioned that this "borrows" the XBMC code as it's core.
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