Thanks Ernest. This product looks like a cross between “me-too” and “solution in search of a problem”.
I thought I’d like the Boxee — but the setup was a POS, and the config interface was a POS, and the tuner wasn’t configurable unless the box was hooked into the www first. THAT was moronic. A quick search just now turned up two things, one, the company (or those assets anyway) were sold to Samsung; and two, there’s a gadget called SimpleTV that appears to offer a similar, cloud-based DVR thing.
I guess none of these companies has ever heard of Roku. My only bitch about any of the streaming boxes (including Roku) was and is, no digital tuner for local broadcast channels. And my bitch about Boxee was their incompetent approach to the idea.
Google Chromecast offers more questions than answers
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/31/technology/innovation/google-chromecast/
And I was ready to get one and get going...
Man....what a thicket of ...STUFF!!
A roku with a tuner card built in. Oh yah, that would be very nice! And if they could have a neat little app for your smart phone to control the whole thing, it would even allow casual web surfing without a faux mouse and keyboard.