Broadcast Machine – Watch TV over Torrent (Beta)

Hey everyone, We’re excited to announce the official release of Broadcast Machine. Now, publishing video online is easier than blogging, and just as affordable.

So, we need your help to send out the good word to all your videomaking friends and everybody you know who likes watching videos (start typing email addresses now). This is a great opportunity to help independent videomakers reach a large audience, so please, send this email out to as many friends and family as you can. Sharing video online is getting more and more popular, and this tool is going to make it even bigger. It’s going to be amazing to watch more independent video and independent voices springing up.

Check out www.participatoryculture.org/bm to download Broadcast Machine today. It’s free, open source, and easy to install on your website. Basically: Broadcast Machine is software for your website that can publish fullscreen video files to an unlimited audience, using torrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs. Broadcast Machine will serve as the perfect publishing tool for DTV, the internet video player that we will be releasing in June.

Broadcast Machine creates video channels that, when viewed in the player, give people a TV-like experience. Taken together, Broadcast Machine and DTV will democratize video publishing online by making it possible to share videos with thousands for almost no cost. 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. (If you already have the preview version of Broadcast Machine that we released on May 12th, we recommend that you upgrade to the current version.) We’re proud to say that Broadcast Machine is easier to use than most blogging software.

You can be publishing video to your community in just minutes – your viewers get high-quality video (for free!) without any hassle, and you don’t have to worry about the high cost of hosting video on your website. For more information, or to get involved with developing our software, please visit www.participatoryculture.org/bm.

Broadcast Machine is free, easy to download, and installs on a website in seconds. Check it out and get ready for DTV to drop in June. We’re excited about watching videos on the internet and hope you are too, Nick Nassar Holmes Wilson Tiffiniy Cheng Nicholas Reville Geoff Schmidt Dave Moore Morgan Knutson DHB/PCF To the open source development community of the Participatory Culture Foundation: Announcing the official release of Broadcast Machine. Now, publishing video online is easier than blogging, and just as affordable. And help open source, independent video making happen by sending this message to all your friends who watch video online, it might just be their thing. Broadcast Machine is software for your website that can publish fullscreen video files to an unlimited audience, using torrent technology to reduce or eliminate bandwidth costs. BM is the video publisher that will be used with DTV, the internet video player we will be releasing in June.

Please visit www.participatoryculture.org/bm to download this software today. It’s free, open source, and easy to install on your website. (If you already have the preview version of Broadcast Machine that we released on May 12th, we recommend that you upgrade to the current version.)

NOW HIRING: The Participatory Culture Foundation is now hiring a full time developer to work on our grassroots video platform. We need someone with a serious commitment to our open source projects and real world experience building large projects with VLC, Mozilla Build Systems, C++, Python, PHP/MySQL applications from the ground up or putting them together in a solid way. Check out the full job listing at http://participatoryculture.org/blog/. Thanks to the many developers whose ideas and feedback contributed to this official release. For more information, check out our BM developers’ list on Sourceforge: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/demotv-devel

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