Comments on: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

By: munggur

munggur — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:43:46 +0000

Miro is fascinating. I love the UI that has very simple navigation and, well, like iTunes too :) I agree with the new name ‘Miro’ for it refer to ‘I watch’. The best thing is that user can download simultaneously and subscribe the RSS video. It’s Rock! Especially, that it run on Mac :D

By: KO

KO — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:01:52 +0000

Finally a name change! The old name “Democracy” was way too wierd. Why make it so confusing.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:05:08 +0000

I was excited about Miro, but in the end disappointed with the result: Just a iTunes look-alike with some (uninteresting) default content. If I hadn’t had iTunes I’d mosy likely love it though… Still waiting for that Mac p2p application that’ll let me watch live football here in the U.S. football-desert :-( (no, not talking about the rugby look-alike sport they fancy here)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:16:15 +0000

Just for the record, the name Miro isn’t purely abstract. It means “I watch” or “I see” in Spanish, making a clever little bilingual play on words. It’s also a simple, easy to remember name in English, which is also convenient.

By: Steve O'Hear (editor)

Steve O'Hear (editor) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:34:36 +0000

@Greig

It’s not a copyright issue — in fact downloading potentially creates more IP issues. I also believe that streaming will be added in the future.

By: Greig

Greig — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:54:23 +0000

Hey thanks for the review. I just tried out Miro and am really impressed. I, too, am disappointed with the lack of ability to stream videos from the searchable sites, however. Is there any information out there on why they don’t do that? Possibly a copyright issue?
Cheers

By: Steve O'Hear (editor)

Steve O'Hear (editor) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:09:02 +0000

@Mike

That’s a great idea, and something we’ve been looking at. In the interim, I might write a round-up post, recapping and comparing all the Internet TV services we’ve covered since we launch two months ago.

By: Mike Liveright

Mike Liveright — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:49:55 +0000

Comparisons…

Thanks for these reviews, and I wonder if you could start a Spreadsheet of the features of the various Internet-TV players, perhaps thru a Wiki. It looks as though there are a large number and it would be nice if one could easily compare them. The topics that I’d initially be interested in are:

1) Platform: (Windows) (Mac) (Linix) (psp? iphone? etc?)

2) Streams: (Number and Main ones) … as I understand it it is realitively easy to have lots of streams, but many of the important ones may be propriority to specific to a player

3) Cost, if any and if Player charges or permits paying for specific streams.

4) Clean Un-Install.

5) Save and Time shifting capability.

6) Remote playback capability.

7) Of course links to the Player site and the reviews of the player on last100 and other sites.

…Others that I have not thought about.