Democracy – Best New Multimedia Application, A Must See!
Democracy is an application that gathers a great deal of all the video content on the net and allows you to manage it within the same framework. It is much like something along the lines of a PVR for TV except this is for the internet. The screenshot on the left shows the channel guide which is what first opens when you begin the application. It becomes your personal center for your own selected video content you want to download, store and watch. Democracy allows you to control these factors and seems to pride itself on the ability to do this as opposed to its television counterpart which no matter how many channels or mediums are available, still filters your content. With Democracy, you can watch music videos you would see on cable tv or a tech show done in someone’s basement. The choice is yours. Here are some of the preference controls that Democracy affords you:
- choose where on your computer you would like to store your downloaded videos
- select how long you want to keep these files (a matter of days or you can choose to remove them yourself)
- create your own channel presets – over 600 channels from which to choose
- control your downloads of your chosen shows to grab each new episode when it comes out or capture all
- search for videos by popularity, date or browse categories
- a built in video player that actually seems to work quite well
I would definitely recommend checking out Democracy. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac.