boxee alpha opens up on Mac, Ubuntu January 8; Windows invites to follow

Six months and 150,000 signups later, boxee is preparing to move from alpha to beta status, ready to drop any unsent invites on all interested parties by the 25th ahead of the open alpha period starting January 8, 2009. While OS X / Apple TV / Ubuntu have been the required attire so far, Windows users won't be out in the cold much longer, as CEO Avner Ronen revealed in comments on the boxee blog that the Windows alpha program will start "early 2009" with thousands of invites sent out every week. That enough to pique your interest in this media streaming set-top box software?

[Via A VC]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2008 9:06PM]

Just downloaded boxee, so far it's a nice addition to my MacMini. I can see this as a viable replacement for FrontRow. The streaming of Netflix: Instand Watch is just as reliable as watching from a web browser. I've yet to try some of the other features but it's looking very promising.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2008 5:42PM]

I received an invite and downloaded onto my MBP - not too bad, some things aren't as I would have liked / expected - such as the extremely long time it takes to add your music that's been added through iTunes.. still worth taking a look at though.