APRIL 13, 2005: Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project is non-profit, open source, and built on open standards. Today we’re announcing the project and releasing our current sourcecode. The software is launching in June. We’re working to cover both sides of the TV equation:
DTV
A desktop video player application that brings internet TV to the fullscreen. Subscribe to channels: videos download in the background and the player notifies you when they’re ready to watch.
Broadcast Machine
A video publishing tool built on Blog Torrent. Publish fullscreen video to thousands with virtually no bandwidth cost. Simple, flexible, installs on a website in seconds. Easier than most blogging software.
Developer Resources
* Sourceforge Page * Discussion List * Development Blog (rss feed) * Development Docs and Wiki
Developers: Check out the code and get involved. Sourcecode is available now. DTV is written in Python and will be available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. A cross-platform codebase and early code for the OS X frontend are posted on the sourceforge site. We’d love to have you join the developer list to stay updated or join in the development: Signup for the discussion list.
Watch TV
We are building a free and open-source desktop television application tentatively known as DTV. Subscribe to a channel and video will download in the background (Channels are RSS feeds, so there’s already dozens of compatible channels out there). When a new video arrives, DTV will let you know. It’s that simple.
And it goes further: you can turn off auto-download for channels that you want to browse– pick things that look interesting and they’ll go into the download queue. To keep disk space under control, TiVO-like caching will expire videos after you’ve watched them to make room for new stuff. Keep anything you like and build a video library. Integrated donating via PayPal lets you support creators directly.
Publish Video
RSS and Bittorrent create the opportunity for anyone to make a television channel with full-screen video that can be watched by thousands or millions of people, with no broadcasting costs. Finally, real competition in television and truly independent television becoming the mainstream.
We’re building a video broadcasting tool for your website called ‘Broadcast Machine’. This free web software is built on top of our open-source project Blog Torrent. It makes video publishing with BitTorrent (or http) as simple as attaching a file to an email. You can choose to add extensive metadata. And the channels it creates are RSS feeds, so the standard is open to anyone.
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