Posted on Friday 2 September 2005 - Popularity: unranked
There’s something really cool shaping up right now. It’s an application/platform that makes Internet TV broadcasting possible for everyone. The application behaves very similar to podcasting in iTunes with a very similar RSS based technology driving it, just with one major difference, the medium they broadcast is video. What I’m talking about is DTV, an open-source Internet TV platform. The cool thing is, that even if you don’t have a high bandwidth server to broadcast your videos, they made a PHP web-application called Broadcast Machine for you that interfaces with their front-end player, using torrent technology to reduce your bandwidth as much as possible. Basically this means that almost everyone with a PHP web server and a digicam can make their own Internet TV channel!
This really is the start of independent TV. The money needed to create your own TV channel will become so low; that people will become able to broadcast whatever they want. There will be no need to reach the big masses to get enough money from advertisers to broadcast something, if something is important, somebody will broadcast it. It’s currently starting with a beta application on the Mac, but will definitely see it’s way to all the other major platforms as well.
Fredi
