After wating a couple of weeks I was finally approved by Boxee to become an alpha tester for Apple TV.  I’ll be installing Boxee on my Apple TV later tonight.  As a part of the Alpha test I’ll be testing Boxee on Apple TV AKA watching a whole lot of Hulu.

I’m really excited, but what a risky venture for Boxee.  I would be very surprised if Apple lets this slide very long.  I know they fought iPhone hacks tooth and nail, which seemed much more difficult to hack then the Boxee hack for Apple TV.

On the other hand this could be exactly what Apple TV needs to combat things like the Roku and Xbox 360 in the long term.  I’d be very disappointed if Apple gave up on this venture.