gHacks technology news » joost live http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Joost Live Test Run Tomorrow http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/20/joost-live-test-run-tomorrow/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/20/joost-live-test-run-tomorrow/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:54:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/20/joost-live-test-run-tomorrow/ I just wanted to remind you that Joost is running their first big Live test run tomorrow with NCAA March Madness. It begins Thursday at 12:20 p.m. EDT / 4:20 p.m. GMT and ends after the last game which is scheduled for 9:55 PM EDT. 16 games will be streamed live on that day and it will be interesting to see how the Joost client will handle that kind of traffic.

They made it clear in their announcement that they expect that some things will go wrong, obviously live is something completely different than the prerecorded shows that they use to stream normally.

I’m not sure about this but I guess you need the latest client that was released yesterday to be able to take part in the live test. I definitely will tune in to see how the image quality will hold up against other services that stream live Internet. Another aspect that is quite interesting is the delay of the image compared to normal television. How many seconds will the stream be behind in the coverage ?

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/20/joost-live-test-run-tomorrow/feed/ 0 Joost 0.94 available, soon to go live http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/01/joost-094-available-soon-to-go-live/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/01/joost-094-available-soon-to-go-live/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 17:47:22 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/01/joost-094-available-soon-to-go-live/ The guys at Joost are serious about going live as soon as possible. They announced today that beta members will receive unlimited invites to give all of their friends the possibility to get a glimpse at Joost before it goes live. I’m a little bit concerned about their move to go live at this point because the content that is currently available would be considered B-Content by many. Sure there are some channels that will attract fans like the World Poker Tour channel which will not be available in the United States by the way.

This is actually the first time that I saw a notice on the Joost website listing saying which channels would be available in which country. I think it is really interesting to see that users from the United States will be exempt from many channels – possibly a distribution rights issue. Some channels on the other hand are only available to users from the United States (MTV and Comedy Channel to name two).

If you take a look at the What’s on website at Joost you see what I mean. Joost announced high-profile ads from companies like Coca Cola and HP but the content currently offered does not justify those ads. It remains to be soon how the users react when they see what Joost has to offer.

Everything is still free to watch so it will surely draw a crowd that like their things free. I would like to see really good content offered at Joost. What about a movie channel with up to date (or classic..) movies that everyone can watch ? What about live sports events ? I’m sure many users would pay some money to be able to see such things.

Will you give Joost a try once it comes out ?

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