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Holmes Wilson Interviewed About Open-Source TV

Posted by timothy on from the turn-key-to-the-kingdom dept.

flippy writes "Videoblogger Steve Garfield has a new interview with Holmes Wilson of Downhill Battle and Participatory Culture Foundation, talking about the F/OSS internet TV platform that Participatory Culture is developing and their recently released video publishing package, Broadcast Machine. Their RSS / BitTorrent / VLC application ("TiVo for the Internet") is expected to be released for Mac and Windows by the end of this month."

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  1. Redundant, no one likes subject lines. by Kwirl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love slashdot. comparing this service to video.google.com or whatever...there should be a time-delay before posting is allowed.


    The first and obvious benefit of this service is that it lays a very solid groundwork for any future public defense of the bit torrent protocol. However, my initial happy world is crushed as I wonder what limits will be used to prevent us from basically hijacking cable programming to rebroadcast to the world free of charge?


    Quick, name the organization that is going to join the *IAA fight against piracy!

  2. A little advice. by Zangief · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do not call it "Open TV". Call it something else, even "Open Video Broadcasting System, that is in no way similar to TV".

    Because if they claim they have a TV system, soon the FCC will get regulation rights over it. It has just happened ot the guys of IP telephony...

    My 2 cents.

  3. The problem is content, not distribution. by Animats · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Distribution is not the problem. Crappy content is the problem. There just isn't that much good amateur video around. In SF, you can go see this stuff at film festivals, and most of it is awful. Bay Aree Video Coalition and Artists Television Access have been providing facilities for making and editing video for decades now, and most of it still sucks. It is not a technology problem. It's a creative problem.

    There are already sites that will host your video for free, and cheap commercial hosting services that don't charge for bandwidth. If your stuff has any merit at all, it's not hard to get it hosted. Unless it's porno, you probably won't get that many viewers. The Internet Archive has vast amounts of video, but few people watch it.

    Bittorrent only works well because many of the users are pirating the same stuff, yielding economies of scale.

  4. Broadcasting machine sucks by thetr0n · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I find the name broadcasting machine to be missleading

    You can get the same functionality out of this software as wordpress or any other blogging software.

    My definition of a program call Broadcasting machine would be something that includes: Video editing, Live video switches/faders and broadcast servers

    Thats what i esentially what i need need with our own project http://www.freematrix.us/