Open (As In Free) Internet TV

by on Jun 28, 2009 | 3 comments

First of all, I’m stealing the tagline of Miro HD Video Player for the title of this tip.  Miro is an open source application which connects to free Internet repositories of video and downloads them to your machine for viewing.

You can think of Miro as a Tivo for Internet TV as you can save shows from their guide and when new shows are available, they are automatically downloaded to your system. Additionally, Miro has a built in BitTorrent client so you can get new content through peer-to-peer networking.

To me, at first glance, this is a great program as you can almost instantly build a video library of shows you like. If anyone has been using Miro for some time, please post your thoughts with it.

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  • DravenX

    This sounds interesting. I will look into it when I return to the states in November.

  • Bob W.

    While Miro 2.0 looked quite promising from both your article and their website, the product was something of a disappointment. The GUI is quite nice, as advertised, but is one of those ‘bloated’ applications that try to completely embed itself into the computing experience, and did nothing that both Limewire and Bearshare accomplish more intuitively and with far lower overhead. This kind of program will be very popular with certain kinds of PC users; particularly those who just love MS Vista, but not very attractive to us ‘old school’ minimlists.

  • Woodcrafter

    I am not sure about the free tv and downloading with miro but have used miro free version to download and burn videos and works very well If you want to watch programs on line choose hulu and you can watch just about any show on TV now and also some old shoes not on anymore

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