Yesterday I was reading an article in WIRED magazine about Joost™. Joost is another television-on-internet service, by the makers of Skype. It uses distributed filesharing to distribute videos over the internet, and it’s free. It is paid for by commercials, so I somehow doubt that you’ll be able to fast forward over them. But the WIRED article said that because the commercials can be so targetted, that there will be a lot fewer of them. Joost is a play for commercial A-list programming – stuff you see on TV, not on YouTUBE.
So I signed up for the beta, but I haven’t heard back yet.
But I got to thinking that I don’t really like watching TV programming on my computer. What I really want is to watch TV on my TV. What a concept! What I need is a device with (1) hard disk storage, (2) enough processing to decode MPEG4 streams, and (3) an internet connection. And this device needs to be hooked up to my TV, not my PC or PC monitor. Guess what? I already have such a device – my PS3!
So here’s my suggestion. I don’t know if anybody from Joost or Sony reads this space, but if you do: please make a Joost client for my PS3!!! I humbly volunteer myself as a beta tester. I think that the PS3 is a perfect match for Joost, and I hope that with Joost or something similar I’ll finally be able to get rid of my cable TV subscription. Wouldn’t that be nice…
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Written by: Blackstaffer
- Founder of PS3Blog.net 
#1 by PSN ID# Lifendz on March 2nd, 2007
Interesting…
#2 by Segitz on March 2nd, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
I am a Joost beta tester and I still have some invites open ^^
If one wants to test it, Ill be glad to invite you (dunno how many I have left)
#3 by Annie on March 2nd, 2007 [ 0 Points ]
I’ll take one!
#4 by Martin on March 2nd, 2007
I’m a joost beta tester too, but the problem with joost is the lack of content. But I guess they have the beta test because of the technical challenges, not the content ones.
#5 by Sporty on March 2nd, 2007 [ 95 Points ]
I would love to try that out.
Does sound interesting.
#6 by Segitz on March 2nd, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
I have 2 invites…
I need first and surname and your email address to invite you!
#7 by Derrick on March 2nd, 2007
invite me too
#8 by Isaac on March 2nd, 2007
Please invite me if you have any extra invites. My name is Isaac and my email address is TermDefined@gmail.com Thank you.
#9 by Segitz on March 2nd, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
So, I invited Henning and I have one invite left… Lets say first come first serve!!
Write me your First and Surname and Emailaddress to ” flacht82 [at] gmx . net “
#10 by Sporty on March 2nd, 2007 [ 95 Points ]
I sent you my info. Also i signed up for it and noticed on the confirmation e-mail saying I’m on a list that all new testers get tokens for invites. So we might be able to get everyone in this thread on as long as the people that Segitz invites invites others lol
#11 by Segitz on March 2nd, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
It is over now, Sporty won the invite…
Maybe if you are lucky, I will get new invites in due time (just got these 2 last week)…
#12 by Segitz on March 2nd, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
And next time you send me an email, try to write your email address right ^^, You had a typo there (thankfully, emails get sent with it too)
#13 by bobeotm on March 2nd, 2007
Hmm, Its an interesting concept, but will be a hard sell to sony. TV on TV? Now DVR capabilities would be interesting.
#14 by Sporty on March 3rd, 2007 [ 95 Points ]
LOL sorry just looked at the email address. I normally use my yahoo but still kinda sad to have a typo with my own name on it.
I got a new computer recently. So I’m not totally used to this keyboard. I’ve been making typos like crazy.
#15 by Segitz on March 3rd, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
No problem since I noticed it!
#16 by Annie on March 3rd, 2007 [ 0 Points ]
Okay, I downloaded Joost for MacOS X. I installed it.
But when I run it, the Joost splash screen comes up and nothing happens.
#17 by Segitz on March 4th, 2007 [ 1450 Points ]
Mine works, but I do use it in XP, as theres afaik no Linux client available!
#18 by Sporty on March 4th, 2007 [ 95 Points ]
Have to run it in admin mode for vista. But the gamestar TV is kinda cool.
Thanks again