Video Distribution Platform Aiming to Kill TV

skaterperson writes "I just read about Downhill Battle's new open source video platform - a publishing tool based off of BattleTorrent and a video player written in Python. They've started a whole new organization to sponsor the project. They say "TV channels" will be made out of RSS feeds and anybody can subscribe to another user's content channel. The system is being designed for the express purpose of putting broadcasting in the hands of individuals. I like this idea of using recent advances in filesharing and syndication to allow aggregated content to be delivered to your desktop. There is a radio show on the project available at echoradio." The project is just getting underway, with a (hopeful) launch date sometime in June of this year.

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Re:Ten Commandments Be Damned

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the !@#$ing hippies and thier !@#@$ free love bullshit that caused the backlash that got us into this mess with demogoguing republicans...

I wish you, and your entire self-serving, self-involved, self-aggrandizing generation would jump off a !@#$ing cliff.

Re:Absurd

[Anonymous Coward]

Connect your fucking computer to your TV. Doesn't everybody have an old P2 400 with a NVidia TNT that has TV-out?