![]() Effectively Boxee V1 goes end of life and any remaining bugs (HD Audio, etc) will not be fixed.ģ. What does maintenance mode mean? If it's anything like what we've seen in the lack of new firmware over the past six months it means that it is highly unlikely that we will see any further FW update. Boxee will provide a "small update" to the Boxee Box V1 to update Flash and other things and then Boxee V1 goes into 'maintenance mode'. This product will be released in November 2012.Ģ. This box is based on Broadcom SOC chip solution that will not be as capable of playing high quality local content (think similar to Roku). Boxee is releasing new hardware with a focus on cloud storage and DVR type TV recording. ![]() Just an update all and I will be editing the 1st post to reflect the latest info.ġ. The box will still be useable for local content but it might become necessary to use file browser mode to view/play files.Ī few of the users at the old boxee forums have set up forums here:Īnd another user is trying to get the boxee subreddit up to speed with info: When that happens, all online content will cease functioning as Boxee downloads apps from Boxee HQ each time they are launched. Boxee kept the carrot of new firmware going right up until the acquisition but it is extremely unlikely that it will ever be released.įor those that want to keep up with the latest goings on regarding Boxee (help with firmware recovery, news about trying to hack Boxee, etc) refer to these forums Īlso worth noting, we do not know if and when Boxee will pull the plug on their servers. Samsung has acquired Boxee and the Boxee forums are shutdown.
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