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Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

ferrigodmother — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:45:53 -0000

The MIRO player sounds great! You don't list system requirements (i.e. Windows XP, at least 500 GB RAM, and 126 GB Processor). Also, you don't say that MIRO has no spyware, malware and/or tracking cookies within the Player itself. These are both very important to me, especially the latter which protects my privacy and my laptop. I would like very much to download MIRO but cannot unless my concerns are addressed. Thank You.

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

Nate M. — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:02:33 -0000

Wow, so much excitement of this.
I didn't find Miro all brilliant, and after reading a nice post on it at:
http://www.aboutux.com/?p=11
I have to agree, they have a good thing going, but completely missing critical points...

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

munggur — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:43:46 -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

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

KO — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:01:52 -0000

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

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

Thomas — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:05:08 -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)

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

forpeterssake — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:16:15 -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.

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

Steve O'Hear (editor) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:34:36 -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.

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

Greig — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:54:23 -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

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

Steve O'Hear (editor) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:09:02 -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.

Re: Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro

Mike Liveright — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:49:55 -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.