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Internet TV Arrives (for Mac users) with DTV
luigi6699 writes "The fine folks at Downhill Battle just released a Beta of their Internet TV software for Mac OS X, called DTV. Mac users can download it now. It's totally free and open-source. The Windows version and full DTV launch is coming in just a few weeks...
DTV is an Internet TV player: you can browse the built-in Channel Guide and subscribe to dozens of channels. Watch full-screen: music videos, documentaries, video blogs and more.
You can submit your channels to their open Channel Guide, or make your own channel with Broadcast Machine. And you don't need to be a videomaker to have your own channel -- use Broadcast Machine to link to videos from all over the place. Check out this latest iteration of the read/write web!"
Just downloaded and fired DTV up. I'm real impressed. I never knew how many vblogs are out there. Already found a really cool show (Rocketboom). I'm thinking that this software is going to help push this more mainstream. Definitely worth the download to check it out.
Will internet TV players and video blogs be able to steal any market share from standard broadcast, cable, and sattelite TV? Perhaps with an array of quality video blogs, the internet could make a dent in the ratings for mainstream's low quality offerings (read: Reality TV). I think the more important question is: will the networks or producers of mainstream programming being to offer their product on line as well?
A quick peek at the Sourceforge CVS seems to indicate that the meet of things is done in Python, and they already have directories for Linux and Windows (although they're both sparse at the moment). My guess is that whoever was taking the most initiative in getting this done was/were Mac users, and so they wanted to see results there first.
It's also possible that they wanted to get a small sampling of the kind of activity they'd expect - releasing it Mac-only for now would allow them to gauge interest, and prepare for the bandwidth onslaught that will occur when the Windows version is released... maybe?
"read/write web" is going to make a very annoying buzzphrase
But the real question is - does it hog your bandwidth?
Go to the w3.org and put Slashdot.org through the validator.
The Mac is hella easy to write software for.
Neener, neener, we got something first for once.
Um it says in TFA that a Windows client is due out next week. Did you even read the summary.
Video channels on the internet are the next wave, and thank God, with all the crap the broadcast and cable networks are putting on TV.
This perplexing pseudo-dialog.
Uhm, yes?
there's more than one way to do me.
Oh sweet mother...
I don't know if it's the coffee in me buzzing me up beyond belief or if this has worlds of potential. Slashdot is great for listening to people comment about things from all around the world. The social networking sites (LinkedIn, MySpace, etc) are good for meeting people both personally and professionally. And now you have this, which could be many things to many people. Some could use it as their ranting platform. Others use it to discover talent (talent in writing, talent in gathering interesting video and compling it, talent in editing, etc). I can't wait to get home and download it (you Mac users out there please hold off and don't slashdot the page so I can get it).
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Imagine, the traditional TV shows we're used to, viewable over the internet, commercials intact. How can that not make everybody happy?
Viewers get a legit avenue of watching TV over internet, and the show producers can track download stats and validate commercial impressions to advertisers in much more concrete numbers than the current model (if significantly less in volume)
Man, I can't watch that show at work. One look at her and I'm bonerfied for the rest of the day. I'd crawl a mile through broken glass to suck off the last guy who tapped that ass. What a total fox.
Oh my dang, rocketboom lady, I love you so much! Wait, who's this faggot in the vest? Rocketboom lady, don't tell me you love him. Look at his stupid hipster glasses! Rocketboom lady, say you'll be mine and I promise you a future without a man in silly glasses. I promise I'll never wear a vest, especially not with a t-shirt because rocketboom lady, I am not gay. This man on your show, clearly he enjoys sexing up other guys, and rocketlady, that is so not what I'm all about. Please, lady, please say you'll be mine and not go out with that gay dude any more.
...will there be a ABC News videoblog?
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Has anyone heard of a little program called WinAMP? Internet TV has been around for a while now.
'Cause we Mac users are always ahead of the curve. Thpbpbbt!
I've downloaded and tried DTV -- looks ok, but nothing great. Nothing that iTunes 4.9 doesn't already do for both Mac and Win platforms (yes, you can watch videos in iTunes -- look to the album art pane).
more likely:
it's just a lot easier to develop for the mac.
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1. Do I need a biger pipe?
2. Does it count if I point the video camera at my cable TV?
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okay. So the pages are slashdotted. I'm looking for increasing the content, since it seems like a neat program.
Public domain tv like cartoons?
clever, possibly missed daily show clips
Classic moments in Television
Those funny clips that people sometimes share online
This works pretty well: I like the RSS aspect of it, I can see it to be a new type of podcasting.
That first girl...she's hot!
RTF . . .uh, yes. They're coming soon, perhaps in a week. Sorry, I forgot where I was.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
You can knock out a prototype of the UI in minutes with Interface builder and have something that you can play with.
Once you are happy with it, you just wire up the code/objects and hit build.
Notice that they have several features which have not been implemented yet but the UI controls are already there in this beta.
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Everyone can have a TV channel.
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Glade is just as simple for linux to layout an interface.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
I'll have to give it a try when I get my shiny new *Book soon. I'm just waiting for commercialization of MythTV. If console makers licensed it, It could probably become extremely popular, and us Geeks wuold be payed to set up Myth servers....
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GORM, the GNUstep version of Interface builder, makes this equally easy (actually, easier in some cases since you can add Smalltalk scripts directly to GORM making it a complete RAD platform, as well as an object modeller like IB). The place where OS X wins is QuickTime - if all you are doing is playing video that QuickTime is trivial to use (and to port to Windows, although *NIX is another matter).
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And who wants to mod parent up "informative"?
Does anybody know how the video is downloaded on this app? I'm running it now and can't tell. If they could combine it with bittorrent, it would be an incredibly powerful distribution model.
I'm very impressed. (and very pleased to see it come out for the Mac first!)
Spoken like someone who's never actually used IB / Xcode (and possibly not even glade?)
- tristan
Please God, someone convince Isaac to write a Myth module for this.
I'd much rather watch this stuff on the real TV than on my ancient iMac.
--saint
Then why did the summary call it a beta? Is it my fault if I quoted their mistake?
No, I've never used IB / Xcode, give me a Mac and I might try it. But Glade is damn simple. And yes I have used it. I've also used Delphi and other RAD environments. Granted these RAD environments might be a little easier since its part of a larger IDE, but Glade is still pretty simple. Try pyglade or glade#.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
I just did the download it this rocks!! I ma was waiting on this it seems like forever because I got a plasma monitor back in the day when they cost an arm and a leg and ofcourse I always wanted to watch t.v. thru it. This is no doubt one of the coolest things Mac has rolled out in awhile.
Give it a shot sometime in an Apple store if you can. You can create a web browser with 0 lines of code using IB. It's by far the best MVC based designer I've ever used. And with the new Cocoa Bindings you can even populate portions of your interface with data without writing more than a couple lines of code.
- tristan
Once you have Cocoa bindings under your belt, be sure to look into CoreData as well. I've just started working through some samples, and it's some very impressive technology, taking a lot of the grunt work out of app development. Definitely worth the learning curve!