Boxee Payments Platform Coming This Summer

Boxee has just announced that this summer they will be launching the Boxee Payments platform. The announcement can be summed up as, “we plan to release a Payment Platform this summer where users will be able to make purchases with one click on the remote.” Today’s news comes just weeks after the company launched their Boxee Box at CES.

Boxee wants to make sure they balance users wanting to view content and producers wanting payment for their productions.

From the announcement, “The content partners we launch with will offer shows, movies and channels that were previously not available to Boxee users. The content owners will be able to package and price as they wish, including pay-per-view and subscription. Content partners will have the flexibility to decide what they make available, whether it’s premium content, content from their existing library, or extras that will never make it on air.”

Boxee will take a fee for each transaction — while they don’t note the percentage, they do state it will be less than the 30% other app stores take.

I would totally use their platform if they allowed me to purchase television shows from the UK and Europe.

Boxee is currently looking for content partners for their initial launch of the Boxee Payments platform.

Update: I asked Magnify.net Community Manager Billy Linker for his thoughts on the Boxee announcement and he replied, “it’s great for @magnify (we have boxee app) Opens up another door for our channel owners to monetize content”.