Joost stopped being relevant when they added a badminton channel. Even extra helpings of Star Trek can't fix that mess. The content is now mostly crappy music videos, cars, and bikini girls. Hardly the ipTV of the future.
Sabatini
· 1 year ago
@kevinDwhite
Joost released its first Mac client about 4 months after its Windows client, and the Mac client was only compatible with Intel Macs.
No wonder no one noticed the outage. Internet TV's popularity is overhyped. It could have value but unlike what you hear from companies like Hulu, Joost Next.tv and Veoh at Internet conferences, it's not putting traditional networks, cable or satellite out of business.
Rather than rob traditional TV of its audience, Internet TV – including popular user-generated-video sites – builds audiences for traditional TV network programs, according to the report State of the Media 2007. TV networks make money from Internet TV whenever they can get more than 100,000 people to watch their programs on computers.
And there's a huge transcoding problem to solve so that people watch whatever and whereever they want.
I tried Joost early on, but was disappointed. Lately been using VeohTV and like it a lot (more shows, more channels, ability to download video, more interactivity, and even remote control). Heard their CEO speak at a conference and he said that they are installing 30,000 new VeohTV per day and have over 3 million of them active at any given time.
shane
· 1 year ago
Joost won't be relevant until geo-restrictions are lifted and everyone can watch the same quality content no matter wherever they are in the world. As an example, the selection of content available for Asia-Pac is woeful, especially as Joost likes to rub it in my face when they put out newsletters with all this great new content I can't access.
I know this isn't strictly Joost's fault as it comes down to how the content owners choose to licence the material. Still, if Joost wants me to tune in more than once every couple of months, it's going to have to free itself up.
All this doesn't detract from the fact that technologically, Joost is pretty sweet. I'm constantly impressed by the quality of the picture, even if the quality of the content leaves a lot to be desired.
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Joost stopped being relevant when they added a badminton channel. Even extra helpings of Star Trek can't fix that mess. The content is now mostly crappy music videos, cars, and bikini girls. Hardly the ipTV of the future.
Joost released its first Mac client about 4 months after its Windows client, and the Mac client was only compatible with Intel Macs.
http://changingway.org/2008/02/22/wordpresscom-...
Rather than rob traditional TV of its audience, Internet TV – including popular user-generated-video sites – builds audiences for traditional TV network programs, according to the report State of the Media 2007. TV networks make money from Internet TV whenever they can get more than 100,000 people to watch their programs on computers.
And there's a huge transcoding problem to solve so that people watch whatever and whereever they want.
Read Internet TV - There Will Be Blood for more details.
http://www.demo.com/community/?q=node/19375
I know this isn't strictly Joost's fault as it comes down to how the content owners choose to licence the material. Still, if Joost wants me to tune in more than once every couple of months, it's going to have to free itself up.
All this doesn't detract from the fact that technologically, Joost is pretty sweet. I'm constantly impressed by the quality of the picture, even if the quality of the content leaves a lot to be desired.