Comments on: Democracy Player | HD Arrives As 200 Channels Are Added http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/ The Business of Internet Television and Video Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:59:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Miro - The New Democracy Web TV Player | Open Source Online Video » Web TV Wire http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/comment-page-1/#comment-4758 Miro - The New Democracy Web TV Player | Open Source Online Video » Web TV Wire Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:27:23 +0000 http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/#comment-4758 [...] Miro - The New Democracy Web TV Player | Open Source Online Video Posted in: News, Video Blogs & RSS, Internet TV Software & Tools and Internet HDTV by Clayton Moulynox The Democracy Video Player, a free player for online videos, has been re-branded and re-launched as “Miro” by its developers, the not-for-profit Participatory Culture Foundation. The new Miro player is more polished and more stable than ever, according to Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of PCF. The restructured channel guide makes finding videos easy, and the addition of Veoh.com as one of the inbuilt video search engines opens up even more available content. The new name and logo (which was designed by Jon Hicks, who designed the Firefox logo) represents the next evolution of PCF’s vision: To reach more people through open source video standards. The company believes there’s an imminent danger that threatens the future of online media – the danger being development of proprietary systems and the monopolization of video content. It’s striving to prevent this scenario through promotion of open standards. Miro currently has 1571 channels, many of which are in high definition. Similar to RSS news aggregators, the software can subscribe to channels and automatically download new content for you. Videos from YouTube can also be downloaded and saved I found the software slick to look at and easy to use – within minutes of downloading and installing it, I was watching HD video about transforming waste in to clean energy (my good deed for the day!). [...] [...] Miro – The New Democracy Web TV Player | Open Source Online Video Posted in: News, Video Blogs & RSS, Internet TV Software & Tools and Internet HDTV by Clayton Moulynox The Democracy Video Player, a free player for online videos, has been re-branded and re-launched as “Miro” by its developers, the not-for-profit Participatory Culture Foundation. The new Miro player is more polished and more stable than ever, according to Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of PCF. The restructured channel guide makes finding videos easy, and the addition of Veoh.com as one of the inbuilt video search engines opens up even more available content. The new name and logo (which was designed by Jon Hicks, who designed the Firefox logo) represents the next evolution of PCF’s vision: To reach more people through open source video standards. The company believes there’s an imminent danger that threatens the future of online media – the danger being development of proprietary systems and the monopolization of video content. It’s striving to prevent this scenario through promotion of open standards. Miro currently has 1571 channels, many of which are in high definition. Similar to RSS news aggregators, the software can subscribe to channels and automatically download new content for you. Videos from YouTube can also be downloaded and saved I found the software slick to look at and easy to use – within minutes of downloading and installing it, I was watching HD video about transforming waste in to clean energy (my good deed for the day!). [...]

]]> By: Chris Tew http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/comment-page-1/#comment-2838 Chris Tew Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:35:55 +0000 http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/#comment-2838 Hey Sheryl, Contact me to arrange an interview on webtvwire (at) googlemail.com if you like :) Hey Sheryl,

Contact me to arrange an interview on webtvwire (at) googlemail.com if you like :)

]]> By: Sheryl-Ann http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/comment-page-1/#comment-2832 Sheryl-Ann Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:21:37 +0000 http://www.webtvwire.com/democracy-player-hd-arrives-as-200-channels-are-added/#comment-2832 We're really excited about all of the new content that's been added recently, and would love to hear what people think about it all. Just to let everyone know we're almost ready to launch with our new name Miro [www.getmiro.com] but don't worry even with the new name the player stays free and open source, it just means we get a new logo. We’re really excited about all of the new content that’s been added recently, and would love to hear what people think about it all.

Just to let everyone know we’re almost ready to launch with our new name Miro [www.getmiro.com] but don’t worry even with the new name the player stays free and open source, it just means we get a new logo.

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