I got Joost!

Posted on February 5, 2007 by keith

… 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. 😉

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6 Responses to I got Joost!

  1. Ryan Stewart says:
    February 5, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    When said eBay auction appears, I’ll be waiting in line 😉

  2. Michael Kaufman says:
    February 5, 2007 at 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.

  3. Campbell says:
    February 6, 2007 at 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 🙂 ………

  4. Erki Esken says:
    February 6, 2007 at 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.

  5. jim says:
    February 18, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    As a tester you can now invite people. Please invite me.

    Thanks,
    Jim

  6. kp says:
    February 18, 2007 at 7:51 pm

    Jim, not true. they aren’t giving away invites to new users these days. I got none.

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