03-25-2009

Boxee vs a Big Boy and the future of tv

This past week Avner Ronen, founder of Boxee, had a healthy heated debate over the future of TV  with media mongol Mark Cuban.

Boxee is being marketed as a  ‘Social Media Center’, enabling users to view, rate, recommend their own media in addition to a variety of internet sources. From Flickr to Twitter to your DVD collection Boxee can handle it all.

From Mark Cuban

The concept of “users always want choice” really really sounds nice. It makes for a great panel argument. But the reality is that its not true. Ultimate choice requires work. Consumers like to think they have choice, but their consumption habits say they prefer easy.

From Avner Ronen

Innovation in the living room will not come from the set-top makers or the networks. if you would like to see the wild creativity of the Internet come to the TV screen, well you need to let the Internet come to the TV screen.

An enlightening read.
For anyone who is curious to see where TV is going, and what some of the hurdles that lay ahead I highly recommend reading the full conversation.

Read the debate : http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/03/21/a-lively-debate-with-mark-cuban/

Review of what Boxee is : http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/theres-something-about-boxee/

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2 Comments to “Boxee vs a Big Boy and the future of tv”

Cameron March 26th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

"This past week Avner Ronen, founder of Boxee, had a healthy heated debate over the future of TV with media mongol Mark Cuban."

I had no idea Mark Cuban was even from Mongolia.

veryMickey March 26th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

I am a bit of a linguistic master. The more you read my blog, the more you will find this to be true :D

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