The Internet is often a place where unlicensed television shows are easy to watch, albeit through websites offering streaming, torrents or USENET.
Recently, many websites have started to show shows free online but do so in a legal fashion, paying for the shows using advertisements.
Different websites seem to work in different jurisdiction but it is fair [...]
Watch TV online legally
Joost Now Flash Based
Joost was previously only accessible by using a video player that had to be downloaded. That seemed to fail to bring in the desired user numbers and Joost decided to drop the software client and create a web based Flash portal with all their contents. The transition phase which ended yesterday required users to install [...]
Joost Now Offering Browser TV
Joost who have been offering a software client for Macintosh and Windows to watch (mostly) prerecorded TV shows have launched a website today that is offering everyone using Internet Explorer or Firefox the opportunity to watch the TV shows that have been previously only available to the software client users.
The service currently requires a plugin [...]
Zattoo Insufficient Bandwidth Message
The message Insufficient Bandwidth is popping up regularly when viewing Internet TV with Zattoo lately even when I use my 16 Mbit line exclusively for the Zattoo stream. I’m pretty confident that the insufficient bandwidth message is not caused by my connection which was confirmed by asking my friends to use Zattoo as well. They [...]
Adobe Media Player
My first though was “Oh no, not another media player”. Adobe Media Player is based on the Adobe Air plattform which has to be installed before the media player can be installed.Think of flash for the desktop and you are more or less there. The interior of the media player reminds me a lot about [...]
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.
Joost to test live streaming
According to New Tee Vee Joost is going to start a public live streaming test today. A new client will be released for that purpose becoming available today as well. The first public live stream will be a video chat with the Joost technical team, a first test so to say to see if everything runs smoothly.
