Download Boxee Box 1.5.0.23267 Beta

Boxee is cross-platform media center software with a social twist. The program can of course play audio and video files, but also adds social interaction with other Boxee users. For example, Boxee friends can follow your activities and you can recommend certain content. D-Link has released a beta release of the new software for this device. This includes a new user interface, an html5 web browser based on webkit and new apps based on html and javascript, instead of the native python and xml applications. For more information about this player, please refer to our review of the Boxee Box and the user experience topic in our forum. The announcement on the Boxee Blog looks like this:

Boxee 1.5 & Fall Software Update

Version 1.5 of Boxee is currently being tested by Boxee Box Early Access users and will soon be available in Beta. We plan to release 1.5 together with Live TV later in January. Here’s some of the new features you can look forward to on the Boxee Box…

• Home Screen
  We’ve added links to the standard menu to launch the Browser and Live TV (once you’ve attached the dongle). We also gave the featured section a small facelift.
• Menu
  The Menu is now more accessible, popping up as an overlay that lets you quickly navigate between different sections or search. we also optimized search to minimize the number of clicks.
• Movies & TV Shows
  We updated the layout of Movies and TV Shows for easier navigation by Genre and Source as well as providing quick access to trailers.
• Boxee Streaming Movies
  There is also a new Movie details screen with extended synopsis and cast & crew information. For TV Shows it is now much easier to jump between seasons and see which episodes you already watched.
• Watch Later & Friends
  We expanded the thumbnails in Watch Later & Friends sections and now let you filter between clips, TV Shows and Movies.