National Film Board of Canada supports Boxee

Written by Kelsey Brookes Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:14

Boxee, the social media centre software based on XBMC is gaining a supporter in the National Film Board of Canada.

The lead developer for the NFB recently contacted Boxee, announcing the release of a plugin for the platform that allows the entire 700+ film catalog to be viewed online by anyone using the media centre application.

Boxee are very much tapped into the idea that people want options when it comes to how they access their media. Applications such as Boxee, Plex and XBMC allow users to setup attractive, usable interfaces on common hardware and that accesses all the media on their network. While many people use these platforms as a presentation tool for their media, it's also one of the easiest ways of liberating your viewing from the computer: hook up one of these boxes to the TV and your entire media collection is available from the couch.

That the National Film Board of Canada is willing to explore this type of option speaks volumes as to how mainstream the idea of the networked media centre is becoming.

Full blog post at the Boxee Blog.