Very Important missing features - beta vs. 1.0

[homerbryan]

To me, (having 500+ local movie files), the sorting of movies by genre was a KEY feature, which seems to no longer be available.

Also, the quick toggle between local media and online content in the Movies or TV Shows menus is no longer there, and I reallllllly want that back...if not that, then some way of defaulting the main menu items to use local OR online content.

The main reason I love(d) Boxee, was its ability to handle everything my PS3/XBOX360 could not deal with, and then on top of that, provide the metadata to accompany the files, and then having the "one click" access to MY media. Now, with the 1.0 version, It seems a tad too "kludgy" to get where I need, quickly.

I have a few other gripes with 1.0 (slow metadata retrieval, lock ups, not being able to "frequently" monitor media folders, etc.). Some of these features will hopefully be re-implemented in the software.

It's a really cool Box...it really is...But i am LONGING for these features back. I realize that maybe a lot of it had to do with getting the performance to a certain point for launch, but now that we have launched, I would like to see my favorite features put back in... in the near future.

[newboxeeuser]

I have a thread (linked below) to use as single place to confirm all missing, removed or flat out broken features, the mods should really sticky it maybe in this forum?

http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=21778

Oh and if you need better codec support for your 360/PS3, if you have a decent CPU, on the fly encoding via TVersity is an option. PlayOn works great too for Hulu and everything else. Cheaper than Boxee.

[homerbryan]

I have a thread (linked below) to use as single place to confirm all missing, removed or flat out broken features, the mods should really sticky it maybe in this forum?

http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=21778

Oh and if you need better codec support for your 360/PS3, if you have a decent CPU, on the fly encoding via TVersity is an option. PlayOn works great too for Hulu and everything else. Cheaper than Boxee.

....Yeah, I have experimented with PlayOn in the past, as well as PS3 Media Server...but what drew me to Boxee was the fact that I didn't have to "hack" around with getting full codec support...It was just there...Plus having the metadata auto populate to show genre, year released, cover art, etc... was extremely appealing. Plus, you do not have to involve another computer to "serve" and transcode your media

[newboxeeuser]

....Yeah, I have experimented with PlayOn in the past, as well as PS3 Media Server...but what drew me to Boxee was the fact that I didn't have to "hack" around with getting full codec support...It was just there...Plus having the metadata auto populate to show genre, year released, cover art, etc... was extremely appealing. Plus, you do not have to involve another computer to "serve" and transcode your media

I 100% agree. That's why I started by building a HTPC running Boxee. Codecs...

But the other features really put it over the top, Hulu (now gone even on PC version), no Netflix, Fancast is a tiny box, No VUDU, No Amazon unbox even (never had it but that would be nice, since Amazon sells them), the GUI now doesn't genre sort your local files, god help you if you have multiple folders deep of media, like a ton of music and tv and movies like I do...

Boxee took a leap and went in the wrong direction. It was a complete 180 degree about face. Now all it offers is Codec support, and well, I need all my other devices still...Codec support alone does not a device make. Thats what a PC is for. So your choice now is Boxee for Codev support or a HTPC running Tversity or PlayOn...the HTPC offers live TV, streamed to your other devices, DVD and BD disc support (or your PS3 for that), and Hulu...Netflix is on everything these days...except Boxee..

[homerbryan]

I 100% agree. That's why I started by building a HTPC running Boxee. Codecs...

But the other features really put it over the top, Hulu (now gone even on PC version), no Netflix, Fancast is a tiny box, No VUDU, No Amazon unbox even (never had it but that would be nice, since Amazon sells them), the GUI now doesn't genre sort your local files, god help you if you have multiple folders deep of media, like a ton of music and tv and movies like I do...

Boxee took a leap and went in the wrong direction. It was a complete 180 degree about face. Now all it offers is Codec support, and well, I need all my other devices still...Codec support alone does not a device make. Thats what a PC is for. So your choice now is Boxee for Codev support or a HTPC running Tversity or PlayOn...the HTPC offers live TV, streamed to your other devices, DVD and BD disc support (or your PS3 for that), and Hulu...Netflix is on everything these days...except Boxee..



...We'll see how the Boxee Team responds to everyone's issues/complaints...Since they probably had to remove features that the beta had to make everything on the boxee box "go smoother for launch"...now they can focus on bringing that "core" functionality back....hopefully.