The Revolution in Internet TV
richarddirecttv | 10.07.2006 15:48 | Culture | Indymedia | Technology | Oxford | World
Oxford activists Hamish Campbell and Richard Hering from Undercurrents have kick-started a radical TV station called OfflineTV. It uses the revolutionary new peer-to-peer open source project Democracy Player.
OfflineTV is innovative because it brings together a number of tried and tested technologies (P2P, RSS, broadband) to make a really user-friendly internet TV interface. It has the capacity to scale from hundreds to thousands and hundreds of thousands viewers in full-screen quality. The other crucial thing is the content: the best of politically radical underground video on direct action, social justice, and the environment. This version is now beta-testing.
Two channels are already up and running :
OfflineTV – a quality-controlled screening of the best of what’s out there in radical cyberspace.
News from the Balkans - the first regional network of what will hopefully be many similar networks around the world. NfB gives a radical voice to this region which is so mis-reported by the corporate media. This project is being launched out of the video workshops in the EYFA Art and Activism caravan, but we hope to create a permanent network of radical film makers posting regular reports.
To watch these channels, download Democracy Player
Then search for Undercurrents inside Democracy Player and subscribe to each channel.
And calling all video activists: if you’ve got a funky report about anything anywhere, post it to the Scratch Channel
OfflineTV is innovative because it brings together a number of tried and tested technologies (P2P, RSS, broadband) to make a really user-friendly internet TV interface. It has the capacity to scale from hundreds to thousands and hundreds of thousands viewers in full-screen quality. The other crucial thing is the content: the best of politically radical underground video on direct action, social justice, and the environment. This version is now beta-testing.
Two channels are already up and running :
OfflineTV – a quality-controlled screening of the best of what’s out there in radical cyberspace.
News from the Balkans - the first regional network of what will hopefully be many similar networks around the world. NfB gives a radical voice to this region which is so mis-reported by the corporate media. This project is being launched out of the video workshops in the EYFA Art and Activism caravan, but we hope to create a permanent network of radical film makers posting regular reports.
To watch these channels, download Democracy Player
Then search for Undercurrents inside Democracy Player and subscribe to each channel.
And calling all video activists: if you’ve got a funky report about anything anywhere, post it to the Scratch Channel
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whan adding the channals
10.07.2006 19:22
hamish
e-mail: hamish@undercurrents.org
Homepage: http://www.undercurrents.org/hamish
OK the channals are working agen
18.07.2006 16:03
Hamish Campbell
e-mail: Hamish@undercurrents.org
you can now get our torrent shows on Zudeo as well
13.03.2007 11:35
And the project has been re-named http://www.visionontv.net
Visonontv
Homepage: http://www.zudeo.com/az-web/content/BucketBrowse.htm?sp=X&sp=X&sp=X&sp=1&sp=SAZHOT&sp=SALL&sp=l29&sp=X