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Re: Boxee

Tommy Weir — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:40:36 -0000

I'd really appreciate an invite to boxee...

thanks for this.

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:05:08 -0000

Haas

Great question. You've inspired a blog post

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/11/getting-a-piece...

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:35:10 -0000

I wish we could do that

There are all kinds of regulations that get in the way

Hmm, gonna think about it

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:08 -0000

Invite sent

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:10 -0000

Just sent

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fredwilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:01:38 -0000

Invite sent

Re: Boxee

Mark Mayall — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:49:04 -0000

Fred,

I would love the opportunity to view this app. Please send an invite when you get a free moment, if you have any left. Thank you sir!

Re: Boxee

Hass — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:07 -0000

I heart boxee too – run it off by new alunibody macbook.

question for you VC types: is there a way for us normal folk to get in on the investment action – a la online "micro-lending" and akin to the Obama campaigns solicitation of small donations (except those don't offer an ROI of course).

i definitely see the "media center firefox" potential of boxee and would like to place a modest amount of cash into it, if it could be structured in a way that provides a small percentage of equity!

Re: Boxee

marcelorpm — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:48:58 -0000

I'd love to alpha test it; I've been in line for a couple of months now and a shortcut addition would be great!

Re: Boxee

alwayslookaround — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:57:03 -0000

I'd love a boxee invite, Fred. Many thanks in advance. :-)

alwayslookaround at gmail

Re: Boxee

Jason — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:47:34 -0000

I signed up a few weeks ago and I would love an invite.
I'd like to test it to see if our sites pending video rollout could incoprorate high bandwidth HD encodes that would be made available for Boxee

Jason@FutureSounds.com

Re: Boxee

andrewparker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:57:07 -0000

Boxee is open source and wil continue to be open source, and thus
free. The "commercialization" Fred mentions is the process of builing
a busines around an open source software project, which has plenty of
precedence in other successful open source services (Red Hat, MySQL,
etc...).

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:53:55 -0000

I sent an invite

It's totally usable in europe although some of the streaming services might
require you to set up a proxy (you can do that in boxee)

Re: Boxee

Thorsten — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:45:25 -0000

Sounds interesting.

Is it usable in Europe too? If so I would like to test the alpha.

eMail would be thorsten.gueltekin (at) ebs.de

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:13:56 -0000

I just heard about this

Boxee has a fix that should be out today or tomorrow

Re: Boxee

andrewwise — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:10:25 -0000

It looks like the Apple TV update to 2.3 voided my Boxee experimentations... After receiving my Boxee invite I bought an Apple TV with version 1.0, then proceed to update to 2.3, which was released yesterday.

Let's hope we see a quick update and hopefully Boxee hasn't created an enemy in Apple.

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:57:58 -0000

Prakash I sent you an invite

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:56:55 -0000

It is free to end users

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fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:54:56 -0000

Invite sent

Let me know what she thinks

Re: Boxee

Thomas L. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:17:57 -0000

I wonder if my daughter will react the same way as yours. If you have some invite's left. I'd be happy to let you know. Seems to be an interface we are all waiting for.

Re: Boxee

robbinjanssen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:51:26 -0000

I've invited you :)

Now a question from my side, in your post Fred you mention Boxee becoming commercial?

I thought it would be free? Or will it be commercial when they pass the beta status?

Re: Boxee

Prakash — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:16:45 -0000

Fred, I would love to get an invite.

Thanks!

prakash at winitsoftware com

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:11:58 -0000

Invite sent

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:42:01 -0000

Invite sent

Re: Boxee

julieallen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:13:00 -0000

i'd love an invite...
julie.allen.mobile [at] gmail . com

thanks!