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While we’ve previously covered Democracy Player / DTV, I feel their latest software release is definitely worthy of another mention. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the software, here’s a little introduction:

"There’s an opportunity to build a new, open mass medium of online television. We’re developing the Democracy internet TV platform so that watching internet video channels will be as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel will be open to everyone. Unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice.

Download and watch all the best internet TV shows in one powerful application: any video RSS feed, video podcast, video blog, or BitTorrent file. Fullscreen, high resolution, 100% free and open source. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide."

As a video podcaster, I’ve been watching Democracy grow as an IPTV delivery platform over the past year, and I must say I’m incredibly impressed. Democracy has developed into a much more stable, feature-packed application, and it’s definitely a pleasure to use. You also get a great sense of satisfaction knowing you’re using an application crafted together by a group of developers who really care about what they’re doing, and who are really trying to make a difference to media around the world.

That’s exactly why I’m so impressed that over 10% of macTV viewers are using Democracy already – an incredible achievement. And with their latest release, 0.8.5. I’m sure the figure is going to be even higher, given that Democracy Player is now a universal binary and blazingly fast. So, here’s what’s so special about the new version:

• One-click subscription: This is huge for publishers– let your viewers subscribe to your channel from your website with a single-click.
• External torrent support: Democracy Player can now serve as a standard BitTorrent client for .torrent files that you download from the web.
• Fullscreen controls on windows: Windows now has fullscreen controls so that you can skip forward and back, fast forward, rewind, pause, etc.
• Interface polish: We’ve made a few nice improvements to the interface, including: an indicator that shows when channels are updating and a nicer download progress bar.
• Bug fixes, speed improvements, and tweaks: We say this every time and it’s true every time– this is our most stable release yet.

Democracy started life as a Mac only application, and now they’ve branched out to Windows and Linux (which was always the intention). However, with the release of 0.8.5 as a Universal Binary I think we can now truly christen Democracy as a ‘true’ Mac application, and hopefully watch it take over the Mac IPTV world in the coming months.. Mwahahaha..

You can download Democracy Player for Mac, Windows and Linux at www.getdemocracy.com