I have not had TV in my apartment for almost five years! That is to say, I have a flat screen, Apple iTV, Bose 5:1 Lifestyle channel system and a Netflix account, but I have not had any kind of cable or TV connection for almost five years.   Ok, I have a Slingbox hooked up at my In-laws, who have 500 channels, but I’ve only watched it a total of 10 times in a year, three of which was to show my friends and family how cool it is.  I know, lame! But remember that we started Trulia a little over four years ago and I had my first kid 14 month ago, and so I haven’t done much outside work and sleep (a little) for at least that long.  I also travel extensively for work and pleasure, so I need my media to be portable!

So when I read all the news about New York based and funded Boxee last week it seemed cool, but I wasn’t sure it was really relevant to me. Also, I honestly couldn’t figure out how it was different from what I already had when I first read about it.  Well, I had a few extra minutes to check it out the other night.  Three hours and a few House episodes later I was totally hooked!

Here are the top 5 things I love about Boxee and what makes it the perfect all-in-one entertainment platform for busy people like me:

1. The Netflix streaming service only works with Windows and I use a Mac to play my media on my TV.  Given Netflix is well over a $1B company, this has puzzled and frustrated me for the last year. But it doesn’t matter anymore, as I can access my Netflix account from Boxee and Boxee works with Mac!

2. Boxee plays media from my Apple iTV! Need I say more?

3. I can login to Pandora, access my channels and create more on my TV using Boxee!

4. The Boxee Bookmarklet lets me add videos from anywhere on the web to my Boxee Queue so I can watch them in bulk when I have some “free time” instead of stopping what I am doing to watch videos as I come across them. More Scobleizer for me!

5. I can watch anything, anywhere from my laptop or TV. Boxee is basically a media vertical search engine that enables you to pull media from anywhere and play it in one slick, and easy-to-use platform. If you are time starved like me, you need everything packaged as simple as possible if it has any hope of seeing the light of day more than once!

If I wanted, or could fit, another electronic device in my apartment, I would have easily added the Boxee Box and Boxee Box Remote to my list, as both look incredible cool!

My top wish list items for Boxee are:

1.  Let me access my Slingbox! Then Boxee will truly be a all-in-one for me!

2. Give me a Boxee iPhone app that will truly enable me to access all my media, including my Slingbox (who’s app cost $30 BTW) anywhere, anytime!

Thank you Boxee! You just put entertainment back into my busy, transient life!