I was a Boxee Box early adopter and got it as soon as it came out. I think what crippled it is that what you got with the Box wasn't anything like Boxee was bef

I was a Boxee Box early adopter and got it as soon as it came out. I think what crippled it is that what you got with the Box wasn't anything like Boxee was before, it was an entirely new Beta UI, and then right around the same time they killed the standalone version. So in one fell swoop I went from an awesome media center to the buggy Boxee Box. Unfortunately the thing just barely worked. They patched over the next few months and eventually it became okayish but at that point it was just too much of a hassle and I returned it. It never met the user experience of the downloaded version + a standalone computer; which is weird because I bought the box to skip the hassles of a normal PC, updates, noise, OS issues, etc. The remote is brilliant though, I bought a standalone version of the remote that I still use today. I mostly use Roku's now, and while the older ones were sluggish the new Roku 3 has a nice fast UI that lets me watch what I want. It's nice to have a system level search that looks for content on both Netflix and Amazon at the same time. But the Boxee had this awesome feature where it put the content first, the TV show was the top level item. So you would find the show you want, and then it would present you the sources. On the Roku I have to remember if the show I was watching was on Netflix or Amazon. I can't imagine content providers would be happy with this though, it basically backshelves their brand. For local content Plex with a Roku is a pretty nice setup.