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Thursday, February 08, 2007

A Glimpse of Democratized TV

In five years, fifty percent of the content you watch on your high definition television will not be delivered by your cable or satellite provider but by a "youniverse" of publishing individuals connected to the Internet. As your TV gets a lot more crowded with content, your set and the boxes that connect to them will get a lot smarter with software that helps you find what you want.

It sounds futuristic and Utopian, but it's coming. You can get a glimpse of this software right now with the Democracy player. I haven't looked at this application in about a year, but it's come a long way since.

Democracy on the surface looks basically like a video RSS aggregator, but in actuality it's a lot more. You can also use it to search YouTube and BitTorrent and view those vids in the app. Right now this kind of software lives on your computer, but in the near future it will also operate on your TV. Give it a go.

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