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New Media Player Centralizes Web Viewing

Miro 'solves a problem you didn't know you had'

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 14, 2007 2:10 PM CST

(Newser) – A media player publicly released today organizes Internet video programs and translates their feeds, centralizing your online viewing experience. Miro handily “solves a problem you didn’t know you had,” says Fortune’s Josh Quittner. Not only can you subscribe to channels or programs from any video portal—YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver—but Miro can cope with HD feeds and join difficult BitTorrent streams.

Quittner raves about the free open-source program, calling the app’s ability to customize web watching “the future of television.” One Mozilla exec affiliated with the program’s designers brags that Miro “breaks out of the little video box we’re all used to.” It also breaks social Internet barriers, allowing for catch-all rating and recommending.

LonelyGirl15 appears In this YouTube.com file photo. (AP Photo/YouTube.com, file) (Associated Press)

The new open-source program Miro can feed Bittorrent, YouTube and other online video formats into a single organized interface. (Official Logo)

YouTube star Chris Crocker poses at a park near his home in Tennessee Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The Miro software also lets users track and download individual subscriptions to YouTube creators. (AP... (Associated Press)

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