Another look at Boxee - BBC iPlayer & Hulu

Well things are certainly hotting up and getting more exciting recently with all this talk of these different applications for IPTV content on your HTPC. I can't wait to try out the new Hulu MCE add-in and I've really been getting in to TunerFree MCE as well lately.

I decided to have another quick look at Boxee today, whilst this is not an application that run's within the MCE UI, it is still a very promising option. The guys at Boxee seem to be taking a different approach to the integration for the online content sources. I'm a layman when it comes to application development, but it seems to me like they are not just displaying the BBC iPlayer and Hulu websites for example within their application.

The integration seems to go further and certainly looks more seamless to me, than some of our already favourite MCE add-ins. Some welcome news is there are also some inbuilt options and settings for HTTP proxies which will come in handy no doubt!

I've said it before and will say it again Microsoft we need something like Boxee native to our beloved Media Center, please please please!

BBC iPlayer in Boxee

Hulu in Boxee

Proxy Options

MCE BBC iPlayer plug-in

I saw a thread on the green button here where a chap has written his own Media Center plug-in for the BBC iPlayer. The home page for the plug-in can be found here. I haven't had chance to try this as yet and I am actually moving to Thailand at the end of the month so I won't be able to access BBC iPlayer services out there as it is a UK only based service. However MCE has been crying out for a BBC iPlayer plug-in for ages and this could be the answer until the BBC decides to get their act together and bring out their own MCE plug-in.