I hate, like most other consumers, my cable company (Comcast) but it is hard for most consumers to switch (Comcast is also the provider of Internet and home phone service to me) to something else.  Boxee may be interesting but I have no hope for companies who have no idea how to conduct business.

From The Times:

Avner Ronen, Boxee’s 33-year-old founder and chief executive, said the company could make money after it built up its user base, perhaps by licensing its software to consumer electronics companies like TV manufacturers — which are clearly not experts at creating elegant interfaces or simple remote controls. Mr. Ronen also shared what he called his “politically incorrect” vision of how the Internet would upset the television business by giving people on-demand access to the array of Web content. “The challenge for the cable industry is how they grapple with the fact that this is in some way a substitution for some of the things they do,” he said.