Gadgetory

okay so this is andrew kippen of boxy and he's going to show us the new boxee beta which is going into closed preview on Monday the seventh of December all right take it away hey everybody so this is andrew with boxxy this is our brand new beta home screen and for those of you who already know boxy you'll remember that the menu was kind of hidden on the left-hand side and we had some social recommendations as well as your history and a variety of things across the screen so what we've done is kind of pull out that menu and give you access to your photos or your music your movies or TV shows your apps and the file so this is just going to let you go through the files on your hard drive in case you can't find something and then we've built in these three different columns so the first is your feed that's a knack tivity stream of recommendations from your friends not only on boxee but also it's going to pull in stuff from Twitter or Facebook if you let us so you'll be able to get all those links that people share two photos or music or movies on on those different social networking sites in Tubac see the featured area right here is going to be where we announce new content partners and we're content partners can kind of sponsor new shows or new movies they want to promote and then lastly over here here's your cue so this is stuff that you're saving for later just like a normal q but similar to a tebow season pass you'll actually be able to add a show to your favorites and anytime a new episode comes out you'll get it in your queue so it'll always be relevant to you so if we jump into TV shows you notice this is very different than what you had on the Alpha we've implemented and brought in a lot of different TV shows from netflix and other sources across the internet and build a TV library that you can search so if I know I want to go si si si I can just start typing it and we'll make some recommendations there's CSI right there click on it get a little brief description and then boxing's going to break it down and show me what's available online and I can hop right into an episode either via netflix or actually in this case i know this one is available on CBS so we're we're essentially getting to that point where instead of having to know what app you want to go into you just have to know what you want to watch and then you can search for it and we'll pull up wherever it's available so here's a bunch of TV shows i have i can stream on the internet can also stream stuff for my hard drive so these are all things that I either have locally or I've added to my TV shows so I get a notice whenever any new episodes come out and we're running right now on what platform so we're on a mac mini okay great I'll know as 10 Snow Leopard all right so tell us about availability so we're making the the beta available in pre-release between december soda and CES we hope so we'll be letting in a couple hundred people every every week maybe a little more than that every week just to kind of test things out get bug reports test out some of the new features that we've a minute and then we'll make it available publicly in early early 2010 hopefully at CES okay great and oh one last thing so this is the new kind of global homescreen new global menu so you can quickly get to your queue your feed settings we've got the main menu up in the middle and then these are shortcuts so if you have a favorite show like daily show you can put it here it'll always be here you can hop right in and get to the latest episode right away all right great and it still does photos and home movies and movies and stuff like that yeah photos music movies TV shows everything okay great Andrew thanks a lot yeah