Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.
I have had this Joost thing for a while. I have never used it. When I first ran it it seemed buggy. I also don’t remember many shows. A boy needs viewing options, right? Anyhoo, I was on the Twitter last night, or the other night, and Shel was complaining about the cable service and Frankie reminded him about the Joost. Shel in turn reminded me. Hrm.
I tried to run it today and it wouldn’t even launch. A quick trip to the Joost.com and I found out I was a few versions behind. Well, more than a few. Haha! So I updated and I couldn’t be more excited! This thing rocks! There are a lot of channels now. I got everything from a horror channel to VH1 to Logo up in here! Logo! Sure it’s not all of the programing you’d get on the actual channels but still…
Anyway. It is invite only still. I think I have invites. I have no idea how many. There is no where that I can tell to see how many I have. I did successfully send one to Richard, and there are rumors that they are unlimited with the later versions like this one. Let’s test it out. If you want an invite let me know in the comments.
Hmmmm… Am guessing there isn’t a Linux version of the software. Knew there would be a downside to installing Ubuntu.
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Posted by outwestau on 08/28 at 11:44 PMHmm I have joost too and haven’t used it in ages, I think becuase I already have tv on my pc.but i’ll have to check it out again!
Posted by Yoshi on 08/29 at 09:12 AMI got a joost invite myself months ago, and I love the idea (I see it as a viable threat to cable television, because if joost where out there and working, I’d have no desire to have cable at all. Not that I have it now. Anyway, my complaint? It doesn’t work with non-intel macs, which is me for at least the foreseeable.
Alas, but rock on in any case…
Posted by tycho garren on 08/30 at 05:24 PM
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