“Boxee’s performance was regrettably not as good on the Apple TV as it is on my Mac Pro. Once I got the atv-usbcreator hack installed I had problems off and on with Boxee,” Breen reports. “Some content played back nicely–shows from Revision 3, for example–while others were problematic. Just about every show I streamed via Hulu was choppy.”
“To ensure that this wasn’t a bandwidth issue (my DSL connection runs at approximately 5Mbps down) I played a few movie trailers within the Apple’s TV’s movies area. They all streamed perfectly,” Breen reports. “I checked with a Macworld colleague on his experience with Boxee on his Apple TV and it echoed mine–some crashes and poor performance from Web-based videos. This confirms that the Boxee beta on the Apple TV is very definitely a beta.”
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