Internet TV is one of the most developing field in the tech market.
The origin of this field can was with the introduction of streaming video. The quality of the video depended on your connection speed. With the advancement of broadband Internet, the quality of the video and ability to access it online increased. The next revolution in this field was YouTube, which gave the idea of social interaction with video. But the problem with YouTube was that movies can only be viewed in a little pop-up windows. After this the idea of high definition video which utilizes fast broadband speeds for streaming the content over the Internet emerged.
AppleTV and Joost are some of the products which are developed to satisfy the above mentioned need. They bring the best features of on-demand television and streaming video together, creating a revolution in the Internet TV market.

Miro is an open source program developed to deliver high quality Internet TV, and is trying to capture a large portion of the Internet TV market. Miro is developed completely in an open and free platform and is not controlled by any content providers or advertising revenue. Miro also has a video player which can play virtually any video files such as WMV, QuickTime, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and many more. With Miro you can easily organize your music and browse your music collection. You can download and save videos from video sites like Google Video and YouTube or watch thousands of channels for free with Miro.
The salient features of Miro include:
• Virtually plays any video files. Also allows you to browse, create play lists, and organize the files.
• Thousands of channels can be watched by subscribing to any video RSS feeds.
• Large number of high-definition contents available for free.
• You can download and save videos from various video sites such as Daily Motion, YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Videos, etc.
• Built in Bit Torrent downloader and viewer present in Miro makes downloading and viewing easy.

Miro 2.5

The soon to be released Miro 2.5 has some serious improvements in speed and memory. The reason behind this was the change made to the database. Automatic database backups before upgrading have been implemented to make the testing less risky.

Important new features present in Miro 2.5 Internet TV

• Reorganization of the Library is the most noticeable change. The Video, Audio, Other and Downloading options will replace the Library, New and Individual Downloads present in the earlier version.
  
• Filters for All, Unwatched and Non-feed items are present in the video and audio main view. This help you to find your downloaded shows easily.
  
• The audio playback ui has also been modified. Audio playback is not displayed the blank window. The interface will remain active and the progress bar displays the playing file.
  
• The startup speed has improved a lot. All the items in the window are plain and readable. The old database is backed up prior to any upgrades. This is done because of large change in the database. So the users will feel more secure while testing and can avoid the fear of data loss. The Database Backup page will give instructions regarding finding the database and returning to an earlier version if necessary.

You can download the development version from here