Miro is transformigly brilliant!

In case someone who hasn't heard much about Miro or tried it out him/herself: I'm not kidding. It is simply fantastic.

The Great Core Thing about Miro is that it makes it *super* easy to download videos to your computer for offline viewing _from a wide variety of sources_. And automate the process of downloading new updates from your favorite sources. These three things alone: download, from many sources, automatically download new content from defined sources makes Miro a TiVo killer.

Now, there are surely a bunch of tweaks to be made into existing features and just as surely there are some new features that I'd love to see added to Miro to make it perfect (.. as if perfect would exist with these things..).

But as said above, I love it already even as it is.
* I love it that it can chew any video (and audio) RSS and that it's also a torrent download client, which--for me--makes it The Perfect video podcast system + more.
* I love the open content directory of available "channels", the Miro Guide. And talking of open:
* Last, but surely not the least, I am absolutely sold to the fact that Miro is open source and that it's available for Linux, Mac ... and Windows, too.

To sum up my praise (with a tiny additional 3rd party praise):
I think Miro--together with the TEDTalks (and thanks to Miro, the automated downloading of new TED videos)--alone is clearly a good enough reason to give up TV.
... Or as Fortune.com has written: "I have seen the future of television and it's an application called Miro."

So, *thanks* to all that have created it and keep on developing it. And a strong recommendation to all that haven't yet used it to surf to www.getmiro.com and get it ASAP.