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Hands on with Boxee beta on Apple TV

Apple Online Store“As we reported Thursday, the Boxee beta has come to hacked Apple TVs. It’s available via either atvusb-creator or aTV Flash ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice )–two utilities that allow you to hack the Apple TV by jacking a USB flash drive into the Apple TV’s USB port,” Christopher Breen reports for Macworld.

“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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