I agree. The newer versions of Boxee have been much heavier, and crash or slow down significantly the Apple TV. I had a lot of hope for Boxee on Apple TV with their beta, but it's clear to me that their focus is on selling their boxee box now.
The alphas ran decently on it. Since there is no HD decoder hardware in the Apple TV (there's a minipci card you can apparently buy for like $50 that replaces the minipci wifi card that adds on hardware HD decoding), so you can not watch HD obviously. However, even the interface and regular SD videos are slower than heck on it now.
Apple and Boxee dropped the ball.
What would have been real genius (no pun intended), was if Apple bought Boxee from Avner, -or- they collaborated together for the Apple TV and Apple TV HD.
I'm not holding my breath though. It'll never happen, since their philosophies are so different, and Apple would want the iPhone OS SDK on it, which would require a rewrite of Boxee.
The alphas ran decently on it. Since there is no HD decoder hardware in the Apple TV (there's a minipci card you can apparently buy for like $50 that replaces the minipci wifi card that adds on hardware HD decoding), so you can not watch HD obviously. However, even the interface and regular SD videos are slower than heck on it now.
Apple and Boxee dropped the ball.
What would have been real genius (no pun intended), was if Apple bought Boxee from Avner, -or- they collaborated together for the Apple TV and Apple TV HD.
I'm not holding my breath though. It'll never happen, since their philosophies are so different, and Apple would want the iPhone OS SDK on it, which would require a rewrite of Boxee.