After only a few minutes of DTV, the 2nd beta, I could feel the difference. It's faster, stronger, and better. It doesn't look much different, and it is far from perfect, but this little app is making great strides. I hope the PC version is still coming soon. Changes include server-side items, which makes the Channel Guide a little faster, some bug fixes, GUI tweaks, and just one more thing... A sort of system for advertising.Participatory Culture Foundation, the makers of DTV, have also rolled out a friend to DTV: Broadcast Machine. It does more than just serve up your own video files via torrents. It will also create a browsable archive of old content, and (my favorite part) allow you to advertise— sort of. Since you can display text in client app DTV, Broadcast Machine allows you to enter HTML, thus adding links to whatever you like (shwag, paypal, comments) in your video. That is pretty darn cool, and still free and open source.
If that's not enough PCF has a great tutorial on using del.icio.us with DTV, and you can even create your own internet TV channel from content on archive.org and vimeo. I think internet-based video distribution is one of those nefarious "next big thing's" but we need to get somebody big on there. John C. Dvorak isn't doing anything, is he?
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8-26-2005 @ 4:40PM
Dan said...
Just an FYI - this app works on the osX86 port on a Dell.
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