Democracy launched, Windows XP Media Center Version to follow
The non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation has launched Democracy, which they bill as the world’s first comprehensive open source internet TV system. The Democracy Player for Windows, Mac, and Linux completes the platform.
“The days of waiting for internet video to buffer and watching it in a tiny box are over,” says Participatory Culture Foundation co-founder Nicholas Reville. “With Democracy, internet video is ready to play when you want to watch it, like TiVo, and it fills the entire screen.”
Democracy takes advantage of open internet technologies to redefine the online video experience, surpassing the user experience of proprietary systems from even the largest tech and media corporations. As Mozilla’s Firefox does for web browsers, Democracy sets the standard for a beautiful and intuitive open-source replacement to proprietary video players and is building momentum with bloggers, videomakers, and technologists to push the online media revolution forward.
PVR Spot asked the folks from the Participatory Culture Foundation whether we are likely to see a Win XP MCE version of the software. This was the response:
“We think this [MCE PVRs] is an important part of the whole platform and we would love to get some development done on this
end but we are currently swamped with making a good product for Windows. In the future, with more open source help, we’ll definitely get there.”
I look forward to.