Samsung buys Boxee

[dankellys]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23170757

Interesting to see what happens next... Samsung TVs with Boxee built in I wonder?

[Dooms]

I like this. I like samsumg and I liked the idea of Boxee (it just suffered from a few issues)... bring on the Boxumg or the Samee or something.

[Lil-Diabo]

I hope they make decent updates for my boxeebox
(One can dream)

[Funkstar]

I think we can safely say that the Boxee hardware and service is dead in the water.

Samsung didn't buy a product, they bought some software, some experience and a bunch of guys that built it.

Samsung have already announced that the Boxee servers will go dark this time next week:
Boxee Cloud DVR to shut down following Samsung deal, goes dark July 10th [Engadget]

[Splash]

Got a Boxee at home actually, really hoping that if they're killing off the infrastructure they'll at the very least release a patch to allow you to use it locally.

[azy141]

i heard the boxee hasnt had an update in over a year so this should help put an end to that

[Funkstar]

i heard the boxee hasnt had an update in over a year so this should help put an end to that

Do you mean that you think Samsung will issue updates to existing Boxee devices?

Going by how swiftly they shut down the cloud servers, all support for the Boxee devices will end very shortly and the technology will be left to be integrated with Samsung's own smart TVs.

[Spud1]

Going by how swiftly they shut down the cloud servers, all support for the Boxee devices will end very shortly and the technology will be left to be integrated with Samsung's own smart TVs.

Isn't Boxee basically just a modified old version of XBMC though with a custom UI and some plugins? Plus a few bits of standard hardware from theri Dlink/Iomega partnerships. I'm really surprised there is enough IP there for Samsung to consider it worth buying them, especially for $30M