We’ve got timeshifting and placeshifting (and the CE devices that rooted them in consumer consciousness, TiVo and Slingbox, respectively), that’s well and good. But tonight I’m coining a new term to describe the third and perhaps (or hopefully) last shift your media must undergo: boxshifting.

Boxshifting is what happens when you take that content and move it from set top box to computer to streamer to portable and back again out of necessity of finding a better interface, user experience, or maybe just something that will play whatever format it’s encoded in. So you can shift the time in which the media is consumed and the place where one consumes it, the meta-function of movement of the actual media data is boxshifting. Expect to see it pop up on Engadget in the coming months, I’m sure. [Muse: Jeremy Toeman]