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Posted 2 years ago

Hulu pulls the plug on Boxee, but there are better alternatives.

Boxee, the socially networked media platform, has just lost one of its key features: Hulu integration. Due to the wishes of Hulu’s content partners, Hulu’s CEO Jason Kilar has announced that they will be pulling the plug on Boxee’s access to their content.

Thankfully you can still get Hulu on your big-screen TV (And a better media experience to boot) by using the Hulu plugin on either Plex or XBMC.

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Posted 3 years ago
It didn’t have to be this way. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you’ve never been a good listener. You seem more interested in your friends the Advertisers than me. And you’re terrified that I’ll steal your content, without realizing that (a) I already am and (b) you could offer me so much more.
A Valentine’s Day Card to the Media Companies
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Posted 3 years ago
Aeon Stark: your media centre PC, on drugs. If you’re the kind of person that takes his Home Entertainment seriously, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a HTPC. And if you know about HTPC’s, you probably know of XBMC and its excellent mac spinoff, Plex. Both of these free applications represent the most full-featured and flexible media centre front-ends available. Over the last few months, the XBMC/Plex community has been awaiting in anticipation as Duncan Harris a.k.a djh, one of the community’s finest skinners, has been quietly putting the finishing touches on what looks like a truly inspired media experience: Aeon Stark.  Stark is a massive overhaul of djh’ previous Aeon effort, a skin which, although never officially out of alpha status, is still widely use by the community. By the looks of the screens that djh has made available so far, Stark also looks to be one of the most functional interfaces available on any HTPC platform. After much speculation about when Stark might finally be released, a post by djh on the XBMC forums a few days ago finally provided the XBMC community with an answer: 30/03/09. Just enough time to build that HTPC you’d been thinking about. Make sure to head on over to the beautiful Aeon Project site for all the details. you can also find an in-depth interview with Aeon’s creator, djh, here. Zoom

Aeon Stark: your media centre PC, on drugs.

If you’re the kind of person that takes his Home Entertainment seriously, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a HTPC. And if you know about HTPC’s, you probably know of XBMC and its excellent mac spinoff, Plex. Both of these free applications represent the most full-featured and flexible media centre front-ends available.

Over the last few months, the XBMC/Plex community has been awaiting in anticipation as Duncan Harris a.k.a djh, one of the community’s finest skinners, has been quietly putting the finishing touches on what looks like a truly inspired media experience: Aeon Stark. 

Stark is a massive overhaul of djh’ previous Aeon effort, a skin which, although never officially out of alpha status, is still widely use by the community. By the looks of the screens that djh has made available so far, Stark also looks to be one of the most functional interfaces available on any HTPC platform.

Stark promises to make your media shine

After much speculation about when Stark might finally be released, a post by djh on the XBMC forums a few days ago finally provided the XBMC community with an answer: 30/03/09. Just enough time to build that HTPC you’d been thinking about.

Make sure to head on over to the beautiful Aeon Project site for all the details. you can also find an in-depth interview with Aeon’s creator, djh, here.

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Posted 3 years ago

Replace FrontRow with Plex

If you happen to own a Mac and a big TV, and you haven’t used Plex, you simply haven’t lived. A spinoff of the original XBMC project, Plex is a highly optimized media centre (and now Media Server) application for Intel macs running Leopard.

It can index all of your media in any format, from sources such as IMDB, integrate with your iTunes and iPhoto libraries, and much more. And best of all, it’s FREE.

My top tip as an avid PLEX user is to combine it with the gorgeous Horizons skin available here. You’ll never use FrontRow again.

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