Boxee integration with Roku?

[lesmikesell]

I get what you are saying, but you've turned Boxee into an entirely different product, now becoming a server to stream Internet video.

Agreed, boxee isn't quite what I want, but at the moment neither is anything else. I'd like to have something more like vlc in its ability to both play locally and stream to peers but with a nicer user interface. And I'd like to be able to use a really minimal piece of hardware (like the roku) for the HD TV connection with any DVD, hard drive storage, or extensive CPU power needed for decrypting or transcoding on a computer elsewhere. Think of it like playing to a slingbox and watching on slingplayer elsewhere except I'd also like to have multicast to more than one instance.

[larrydavis]

Then you want a SageTV HD Theater combined with PlayOn.

[lesmikesell]

Then you want a SageTV HD Theater combined with PlayOn.

Looks considerably more expensive than roku + boxee, though - if boxee could do dlna output like playon. Having the option of using a PS3 as the output device would be nice too, to eliminate the rat's nest of cables and switches you need to play games, blu-ray, and network content.

[wizzle]

It's also unlikely that the Roku has enough juice to run Boxee anyway. I'm not 100% on this, but I think it uses the same Sigma decoder chip that the Popcorn Hour and all the other media streamers use. You'd see Boxee on the PS3 before any of these devices.

On a side note, my experience with PlayOn was very poor. I'm surprised they're even able to charge for the software.