The future of TV

By Josh Quittner

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I have seen the future of television and it's an application called called Miro. The app makes it super easy to find and watch Internet TV. It handles HD feeds and seamlessly staples together BitTorrent streams. A free, open-source download, Miro goes into its 1.0 public release today, here.

I never realized that finding and watching video online was a problem. But it is. With the steady proliferation of Net TV shows—not to mention all the things you might want to track on YouTube—organizing your video feeds is increasingly painful. From BoingBoing, to Wired Science, to The Onion, everyone is doing video, and a lot of it is getting fun. Miro gives you a way to subscribe to and organize it all. Since it solves a problem you didn't know you had, it's one of those programs you have to use to appreciate.