Apple TV Junkie

The latest version of the Boxee Alpha was released this morning with the biggest new featuring coming as Netflix support. All though, and most important to Apple TV users, Netflix support is not available to the Apple TV yet. Apparently they just could not get it to run on the Apple TV and the Apple TV’s slow processor seems to be the culprit. The good news is that they are continuing to work on it. Other new features coming to this latest version of the Boxee Alpha are:

• a new Hulu – looks more like hulu.com, enables you to login (so you can get your Hulu Queue), works faster, and playback should be greatly improved on Apple TV

• a new YouTube – new look, as well as higher quality video playback. some of these YouTube clips look pretty good on your 46” LCD

• a new CNN, Flickr, Picasa and Apple Movie Trailers – we’ve re-written all of these plug-ins to work faster and look better

• Boston Globe’s The Big Picture – it’s a great photo-blog, which we really like, and thought could be pretty cool in a 10-foot experience. if you’ll like it we could bring much more of these type of services (let us know!)

• integration with MTV Music – when you click on an album you’ll see a new option to let you watch music videos of the artist. check it out. MTV said they can give us higher quality videos, and we have a few more ideas for providing a great music video experience on Boxee

• theWB – on our quest to bring more TV content to boxee theWB is the latest addition. it means shows like Buffy, Babylon5, Firefly, One Tree Hill and The O.C. are now available on Boxee

For all the details on this latest version of Boxee, and where to grab it, head on over to the Boxee Blog.