Timely: Online TV program released
2 years, 4 months ago
via Boing Boing:
A new suite of free and open tools let you watch TV, make TV, and recommend TV in a way that’s easier, cheaper and more accessible than ever before.
A pakage like the Democracy suite was inevitable - combining the technologies of RSS (syndication/subscription), BitTorrent (scalable distribution), and VLC (multi-format, multi-platform video player) to form an essential tool for the new internet-based grassroots video distribution model.
Democracy has just been released as beta for PC, with a Mac version already released and Linux on the way. It seems well-suited to take its place as an ubiquitous technology to replace conventional TV.
The experience of Democracy is great. Fire it up, pick some channels, and leave it running. Flip to it whenever you want to watch your video — it’s as easy as turning on a TV…
I’m sure those of you who pay an interest to this blog will know that my colleagues and I are working on an epidsodal, free-range video narrative called Carrie & Vostok (more information through its dedicated site). Essentially it brings the stylistic diversity of the world’s budding video poducers/artists together in a conceptually coherent narrative about two characters - capturing the postmodern nature of different gazes apon any scenario. I don’t really need to explain how Democracy has arrived at the perfect time to fit the needs of this project. Serendipity or providence? 