I got Joost!
Monday 5 February 2007 - Filed under General
… joosted? Whatever the grammar is, I’m in there and downloading it now. If someone did hook me up with an invitation, thank you. All I know is I got an email welcoming me to joost and my user name and password. Good enough for me. I’ll play around with it and most likely post my reactions here.
p.s. I was not given any invitations. So I can’t get you on. If I am graced with any invitations any time soon, I’ll post a link to the ebay auction. 
2007-02-05 » keith
5 February 2007 @ 7:07 pm
When said eBay auction appears, I’ll be waiting in line
5 February 2007 @ 8:31 pm
Hi Keith,
Funny, as I read your post I was opening up a package the fine folks at Joost sent me for being on their beta..a size small glittery t-shirt I’ll give away that still has the old name “The Venice Project”. I had very high hopes for their IPTV until I started using it…so I’m interested on your take. Me? I can’t find a lot of programming I want to watch personally…and, as I told the Joost developers, I don’t find the UI terribly intuitive. I got the hang of it eventually, but it took me a few minutes. Maybe it’s better now… I know they made some updates so I’m hoping. The video quality wasn’t much better than youTube for me, so that has to change. I really do hope IPTV takes off in the US and gives cable tv some real competition to lower prices.
Michael.
6 February 2007 @ 8:46 am
I was dissapointed with the UI too. It seriously took me about 3 mins to find the off/close button. hahah I must have been having a blonde day. As for quality you will be limited to what ever is out there, re-encoding from a low quality source can kill the user impression. But if Adobe brings out HDTV codec
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6 February 2007 @ 5:05 pm
Glad you got in, Keith (I sent one invite). It’s the least I could do as a thank you for your excellent Flash books
Be sure to search for “snakes” and check out that video. While some of the content currently available sucks quality-wise, the snakes video was shot in HD and it looks great in Joost too.
18 February 2007 @ 4:22 pm
As a tester you can now invite people. Please invite me.
Thanks,
Jim
18 February 2007 @ 7:51 pm
Jim, not true. they aren’t giving away invites to new users these days. I got none.
5 March 2007 @ 5:56 pm
[...] I was fortunate enough to be hooked up by a fellow blogger, Casey Carpenter, with a much sought after Joost invite. My collegue Keith Peters got an invite a few weeks ago and was immediately innundated with requests for an invite. It turns Joost has been pretty stingy with their Beta tokens which has lead to them even being sold on eBay! So yes I lucked out big time! Thanks Casey! [...]