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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. Wow, only 3 comments in 10 minutes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Everyone must still be on the Apple thread.

    So I wonder whether the remote possibility that we'll ever get useful IP multicast for video streams is going to be forgotten now that we have Bittorrent. I mean, at least BT is here and useful now.

    1. Re:Wow, only 3 comments in 10 minutes. by m50d · · Score: 2, Interesting

      No, it's just everyone trying to post a comment is getting 503'd. I think slashdot finally bit off more than it can chew in terms of visitors, the millions of rabid apple fanboys have managed to slashdot slashdot itself.

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      I am trolling
  2. Intranet only? by Dare+nMc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am tempted to setup their Broadcast Machine on the company intranet, for the videos we share internally (I am at a remote location, with a T1 connection to the most viewers, who are all interconnected 100MB links)

    My question is, with the now torrentless operation of azures, protecting just the torrent file on the intranet, does the video immediatly become world accessable with the first viewing by any client, even if that is inside our VPN (with internet access)

  3. Open Source TV = an evolution of Public Access TV? by jason718 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In the US, Public Access stations, for a number of years, have been giving people a voice within their own neighborhoods.

    Taking this model to the Internet, using technologies such as that mentioned in the article, will definitely enable much broader distribution channels (but not necessarily larger audiences).

    Now, of course, technology is just part of the solution. The real meat is in the content (same applies to podcasting, of course).

    One final thought - how long before we see Nielsen ratings for online programming? (as well as Arbitron ratings for podcasts?)