By Chris Foresman,

Boxee has announced that Boxee Box – a set-top box for streaming video content is produced in collaboration with D-Link – is now available in 33 countries of compatibility.

While the device is launched with an impressive array of online sources and in many codecs, the company also promised that Netflix and Hulu More support will come in the near future.

Boxee has announced that Boxee Box – a set-top box for streaming video content is produced in collaboration with D-Link – is now available in 33 countries of compatibility. While the device is launched with an impressive array of online sources and in many codecs, the company also promised that Netflix and Hulu More support will come in the near future.

The Boxee Box hardware is built on the same Atom-based platform as Google TV, and runs Boxee’s eponymous media center software.

The device sells for $199, making it more expensive than Apple TV or Roku XD|S but still cheaper than Google TV options from Logitech or Sony.

Like Google TV, the Boxee Box can access a variety of online sources, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and VUDU. It can also access video content on network websites, including those sites specifically built for a TV interface.

The Boxee software uses an app plug-in architecture to add additional content, much like Roku’s “channels” system. The device can also access content from a local network or storage device saved in almost any popular codec.

Two of the most popular subscription-based services, Netflix and Hulu Plus, will shortly be joining in the Boxee Box fun.

Boxee’s Andrew Knippen said that Netflix support should be ready by the end of this year, taking away one advantage of the Apple TV and Roku players. Boxee is working to bring Hulu Plus to the device as well, though no specific timeframe has been given.

Boxee has had an off-again, on-again, off-again relationship with Hulu ever since the software first gained support for displaying Hulu content.

There is still some unofficial support for Hulu, and the Boxee Box includes a full WebKit-based browser for viewing standard Web content. But Hulu has worked to block software like Boxee from accessing its content due to demand from its content partners.

Hulu launched its Hulu Plus service earlier this year to free that content from the browser and bring it to HDTVs, set-top boxes, and mobile devices.

It has been expanding the service ever since, most recently to Sony Bravia HDTVs and is coming soon to Roku. Hulu Plus will, for the first time, give Boxee officially sanctioned support for Hulu content.

Google has recently been trying to shore up support for his platform of Google TV, which found itself fighting the major networks have moved to block Google TV devices using their web-based content.

So far, the networks are not trying to do this and boxing. But Boxee Box is just starting to make its way into the consumer audio / video furniture, so that he could become a problem later.