Democracy Player Reloaded

As bandwidth increases, television moves from offline to the online realm, and even if you don't have a TV tuner card, but your bandwidth is large enough, you can easily watch a lot of TV stations and get access to HD video content. Joost was one of the first programs to step into this realm, closely followed by Democracy Player, which became in the meantime Miro, and one of these days, Miro got its first update after the "maturity" version, 1.0, bringing the current version number up to 1.1.

Now, I will try to tell you a few things about Miro and its features. If you didn't use any such program so far, I am sure you'll be really excited to try this one, so here we go...

Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), Miro is, basically, an Internet TV application that doesn't stream live media from the Web, but can automatically download videos from a very large list of RSS-based channels, helping you to manage your video content and, of course, play it. Since it uses the BitTorrent protocol for downloading files, Miro integrates an RSS aggregator, a media player and, of course, a BitTorrent client.

Since Miro is not the only product developed by the PCF, its design allows easy integration with Video Bomb, a social video tagging site, and Channel Channel, a TV guide for Internet TV, both coming from the same producer.

I guess that most of you have downloaded and used Joost already, or at least you heard of it or see it used by a friend, so I think it's great to see two reasons why Miro claims to be better than Joost. According to their official site, Miro has 2,500 unrestricted channels, while Joost has only 250 DRM ones, and while Miro has a huge selection of HD content, there's no such thing to be seen in Joost!

At last, here's the download link for the Windows version - click here. If you're using Mac OS X or Linux, check this downloads page, with versions for more operating systems. Enjoy!

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