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Posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at 9:34pm. #

I’ve been beta-testing Joost for a while (though I’m apparently still under NDA, so can’t say how good it is or what it does, which is odd, because everyone else is, I notice.)

Anyway - if you wanted to give it a try (PCs and IntelMacs only) then pop along to their website before Thursday, and you’re apparently guaranteed to get a place on the beta, before they permanently close their beta test to prepare for a live launch “soon”.

It’s really very good, and there’s some excellent content on there - including (gosh) Viacom, apparently. Irritatingly, my Mac Mini is only PowerPC-based, so I can’t use it on the telly. One day, I’ll upgrade. One day.

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William said at March 21st, 2007 at 6:23pm

You mention the “excellent content” - is there anything on there yet you think would appeal to ‘normal’ UK people? (Well OK, UK people who are prepared to listen to American podcasts like TWiT etc.)

I only ask as the Apple ITMS is *still* yet to provide us with any films or TV shows…

And is there any live broadcasting or is it all based on downloads over P2P - if latter I’m not really sure how useful it is to have a live chatroom if everyone watching is at a different point in the programme..

James Cridland said at March 21st, 2007 at 6:44pm

Some of the publicly described content is Fifth Gear, for example - yes, that show from Channel 5. Also in there have been a ton of nice documentaries from the Discovery Channel, including a good one about Alcatraz (since deleted).

No live stuff in there quite yet, but I believe that’s the plan.

gary said at April 12th, 2007 at 11:36am

Hi,
http://www.iptvchannels.co.uk
has some good live tv channels

myJose.TV said at March 6th, 2008 at 12:11pm

Certainly we have come a long way since the first days of internet television broadcasting. For example, myJose.TV broadcasts now in High Definition and Surround sound. Other internet television channels are also following this trend. The future looks very interesting.
myJose.TV

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