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Internet TV Arrives (for Mac users) with DTV

Posted by timothy on from the don't-they-deserve-it dept.

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!"

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  1. Pretty cool stuff by d'oh89 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Why is is Mac only? by slthytove · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

  3. simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Mac is hella easy to write software for.

    Neener, neener, we got something first for once.

  4. Re:Buzzphrase Alert by reynhout · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:INTERNET TV ARRIVES!!! by aristotle-dude · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is WinAMP still in development? Is is cross platform compatible? Is it open source? This one is.

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