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A new way to see broadcast TV

By Hiawatha Bray

 |  Globe staff  

  March 05, 2012

Boxee Box and Boxee Live TV They’re the cable TV industry’s nightmare. “Cord cutters’’ - people who give up on paying cable bills because they can get all their TV over the air or online. Boxee caters to would-be cord cutters with a simple, attractive device that streams Internet video services to standard TV sets. You can get thousands of popular TV shows and movies, many of them free, or hook up to popular subscription services like Netflix.

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