What does Democracy have to do with TV? Well, I wasn’t sure democracy had anything to do with TV, until I downloaded Democracy, an internet TV viewing client.
This is one of the slickest programs I’ve seen for viewing online videos.
What you do is basically subscribe to video feeds and Democracy downloads and organizing them for your viewing pleasure. There are lots of custom settings so that it can download videos in the background and let you know when a new video is waiting to be watched. And, it cleans house too. You can tell it to delete videos that you’ve watched after a certain period of time, so that your hard drive doesn’t fill up.
It has a very clean interface and is quite easy to figure out and navigate. In fact, it looks like a program Apple would/should have built into iLife. There’s a fairly decent sized directory of video feeds you can subscribe to (Channel Frederator and Mac Break being two of my favs). It’s not Time Warner cable, but the content and quality are increasing. And, best of all, its free!
Pericles would be pleased.
