OTT Specialist Boxee Working with CE Manufacturer to Develop Dedicated Boxee Box

In a posting on over-the-top-TV specialist Boxee's corporate blog last week, the company's founder and CEO, Avner Ronen, announced that it has signed its first partnership with a consumer electronics manufacturer, and that the manufacturer is developing a dedicated Boxee box: "We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES," Ronen wrote. "During the show we met with several device manufactures interested in embedding Boxee into their existing devices or building a dedicated Boxee device. I am very happy to announce we have signed our first partnership with a CE company. At this point we can not say more about the partner or the specs of the device, but we can tell you we are working closely with them to make sure we deliver a great Boxee experience on it."

Ronen added that Boxee plans to show mock-ups of the box and provide more information about it at the Boxee Beta unveiling event it is holding in Brooklyn on December 7th. He also stressed that Boxee would continue to be a multiplatform product: "We are building Boxee as a platform that would: make it easy for users to consume and find content--no matter what the source; give content owners, aggregators, and developers the tools to create unique experiences with a variety of business models; enable CE companies to enhance their connected devices. This will be the first connected device running Boxee, but the idea is to provide consumers with a way to get Boxee in their living rooms, no matter whether it's on a connected TV, game console, set-top box, Blu-ray player, computer, etc. Our goal is to be on every connected device in the living room."