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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?
The Mac is hella easy to write software for.
Neener, neener, we got something first for once.
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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or WWW+RW.
Just be careful, because WWW-RW and WWW+RW each only work in certain browsers, and if you accidentally browse to the wrong kind of website because you didn't notice the stupid 2-pixel difference, CompUSA isn't going to give you your time back.
...will there be a ABC News videoblog?
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more likely:
it's just a lot easier to develop for the mac.
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I think the problem is that you're evaluating it as a video player. The "we play video" feature is the least interesting aspect of this software. The goal, as far as I can tell, is to provide a new network where anyone can publish their video online. So the success of the software should be evaluated based on how easy it is to find interesting content, and find interested viewers for your own content.
In short, we might have to wait years before rendering a final verdict.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Is WinAMP still in development? Is is cross platform compatible? Is it open source? This one is.
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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.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.