Samsung has partnered with AKG to bring new wireless headphones to the U.S. Samsung’s blistering 219-inch Micro LED TV will cook your eyeballs, blow your mind Samsung’s QLED 4K TVs have never been cheaper than they are this Cyber Monday If Samsung sees the same potential (somebody up top decided Boxee was worth $30 million, after all), maybe we can look forward to the best crop of smart TVs yet at CES 2014 – a fruitful future for what is arguably already the best smart TV software out there. But with 40 seasoned smart TV developers now on staff, along with the code they’ve been cracking on since 2007, the promise is there. We don’t yet know how much of this Samsung will salvage, or whether the existing apps made for Boxee will work with whatever Samsung conjures up. ![]() And with the support of third-party plugins written by developers, it allows you to play just about anything you can imagine. Of all the smart TV software I’ve used, Boxee has come closer than anything to getting me to give up my beloved Windows home-theater PC for a set-top box. No, if Samsung wants to elbow in among the ranks of Apple, Microsoft and Google, as a creator of worlds instead of a mere hardware manufacturer, it needs its own OS, not a paint job on somebody else’s. Might as well try to build a real-estate empire by renting out properties … that you rent from someone else. That likely means we’ll see plenty of attention to Samsung-specific Android tools too, like showing developers how to make the most of the S Pen in its Note products, creating custom themes for its modified Android UI, and using the AllShare network across all its devices.īut Samsung doesn’t own Android, and the company should realize that building a “developer community” around its own little tweaks to Google’s OS is a dead end. The announcement email calls it a “cross-platform, cross product conference,” and a Samsung representative refused to comment on which platforms specifically would get the spotlight. Of course, there’s no guarantee that DevCon will turn out to be BoxeeFest. Boxee’s backyard garden of apps could soon turn into a Monsanto-scale farm, with combine harvesters chucking bales of cash back to those devs who have sown their seeds early. Throw Boxee onto even a fraction of them, not to mention in Blu-ray players and standalone boxes, and developers will start to take notice. That could change very quickly with the world’s largest technology company now in control. But with only 200,000 Boxee Boxes in the wild (at last count) and 2 million users, it simply doesn’t sit in front of enough eyes to command the attention of major developers. Samsung is expected discontinue the Cloud DVR service and Boxee’s retail set-top business.… maybe we can look forward to the best crop of smart TVs yet at CES 2014 – a fruitful future for what is arguably already the best smart TV software out there.Fortunately, Boxee already comes with serious street cred in the videophile community, and more than 200 already-built apps. The startup struck a deal with Walmart to stock the Cloud DVR box in 3,000 stores nationwide and online, but Boxee suffered from consumer complaints that the device and service didn’t work as expected. In addition, the device provided apps for Internet-delivered services such as Netflix, YouTube, Pandora and Walmart’s Vudu rental service. markets, promised unlimited DVR recording of free over-the-air TV (or unencrypted basic cable channels) for $9.99 per month. The Cloud DVR service, launched last fall in eight U.S. In 2012, the company sold fewer than 70,000 of its Boxee Box set-tops, according to IHS iSuppli Boxee phased that model out late last year. The startup - which focused marketing efforts on providing a cheap alternative to pay TV services - generated considerable buzz in the media and attention from industry players but failed to achieve commercial success. Originally Boxee launched as a software application for TV-connected PCs, but the company discontinued that product last year to shift its model to selling $99 set-tops manufactured by D-Link and a “Cloud DVR” service. Company will post an official statement later in the week, he added. ![]() SEE ALSO: Boxee Cozies Up to Broadcasters With Rebranded DVRīoxee CEO Avner Ronen said in an email that he and other employees will be joining Samsung.
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