The interest in Joost is quite exciting. Clearly those geeks that want to get TV on their home computers are keen to do so. But there are plenty other options if you can’t get on the Joost beta.
Viidoo is one. Sounding like it was named after a creature in the Mos Eisley cantina Viidoo works on a broadcast and subscribe system. The software fundamentally turns TV input into a Windows Media Player stream so that other Viidoo users can watch it. Currently the channels available on Viidoo are more spectacular than those on Joost. FOX and CBS are two US networks which you can watch on Viidoo. Apparently ABC used to be on there too but has subsequnetly been removed. Probably because the Internet would have ground to a halt from people outside of the US trying to watch Lost, Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty before it appears on their screens.
Viidoo uses the TVUPlayer software, which is also available from TVUNetworks.com. When I tried the player I found it to be VERY slow. The picture quality was awful and delays were very long. Whatever the guys at Joost are doing they’re currently doing it better than Viidoo.
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i think the Joost is much pramitive according to TVKoo, the CHinese p2p live video software. Try the amazing webTV by TVkoo.
i Tried TVkoo,it is much better!
I have taken a look at TVKoo. I like the very small and compact size of the application. It fits with a Vista look and feel if installed on that platform (although the website does not suggest that it actually works on Vista).
However, my main comments would be 2 things.
Firstly, it;s VERY slow and stutters even more than Viidoo. This is the case even with my 640Kbit download speeds which I regularly get.
Secondly, the vast majority of content is Chinese and my Mandarin is not very good. Equally some of the content is blatantly copyrighted and probably shouldn’t be available on there. Star Wars Episode II for one!
IMHO Joost shows the most promise as a technology. It just needs more content.