TV has just been ‘Joost’-ed!
posted by: John Vincent HilarioThis is part one, in a two part article about Joost, this part will be an introduction about Joost. Part two will be a review, or rather a preview since it hasn’t actually been released to the public, I am one of the lucky few who actually has a beta invite.
From the innovators who brought you the peer-to-peer file sharing program Kazaa, and the free peer-to-peer online phone carrier Skype, now introduce Joost™ (pronounced “juiced”), an Internet television application that’s transposed the television industry. Co-founders Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennström, 40, are known for “sticking it to the man” with their programs that put the control back to the people. Joost™ works like an on-demand television, removing all of its negative qualities, one of which being what Friis describes as “televisions being locked in linear time”. Joost™ offers “high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.”
“At Joost™ just about all our software is built on top of open source stuff, and we’re proud of it! These pages attempt to skim the surface of what we do with open source, and also provide a glimpse of how we try to contribute back to the community.”
Video decoder: H.264 codec (aka AVC, aka MPEG-4 Part 10, aka ISO/IEC 14496-10) called CoreAVC, created by CoreCodec.
Sources:
Details Magazine
The Register
Web TV Wire
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May 7th, 2007 at 11:14 am
I know it is rather unorthodox to ask favors of a complete stranger. But if their beta invites are anything like Gmail’s than I was hoping you might have one to spare to a lowly web stumbler.
Im honestly rather surprised that you dont have many more people asking for an invite, or maybe you have filtered their comments, either way. If you have one to spare, I have been keeping my eye on Joost for a long time now and had never, until now, run across anyone with beta access and invites. It would be unimaginably appreciated if you could spare one. Not too mention eternally convenient since I am about to leave for Japan by the end of the week. It would give me and my friends something to do late night trapped in our hotel room.
However if you cant spare one that is understandable. I am sure this whole Joost thing is rather high in demand right now. Just stumbled by and thought it might not hurt to ask. ^_^ Thanks for your time and understanding.
-J
May 8th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
If you get an invite and get in, please if you can see your way clear to invite me to joost..thanks a bunch in advance
walk well
tj
May 16th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Hi, would it be possible to you send me a Joost invite. Thank you in advance.