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Joost signs Wow! TV

Joost has signed Kamera’s Wow! TV as one of the first channels to its platform. Wow! TV provides entertainment news and gossip and will be available free to viewers with advertising sold by Joost and the revenues then shared with Kamera.

Henrik Eklund, CEO of Kamera, said: “We’re delighted to have signed this deal with Joost. Not only does it give our viewers a better experience with high-quality video in an easy-to-use interface, but we also expect to reach a massive audience.”

          

1 comment February 12th, 2007

Google says web not ready for IPTV

Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will struggle to meet rising demand for high-quality online video. Online video services such as YouTube and Joost are pushing internet capacity to breaking point. Dureau said the internet, as it exists now, was not designed for the transfer of data on the scale required to deliver high-quality video as some broadcast networks and movie studios would like to have happen.

“The web infrastructure, even Google’s [infrastructure], does not scale. It is not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.” said Dureau. However, Fredrik de Wahl, of recently-launched web TV portal Joost, suggested that infrastructure providers have made great strides to expand network capacity. Only time will tell.

          

2 comments February 9th, 2007

What Joost Plugin do you want to see?

That is the question we asked in our forums and we got back a lot of interesting and unique ideas. Here are a couple:

• A plugin that would allow someone to program Joost when not at a computer and for Joost to be able to record it
• Ability to play on an iPod
• Record the episode or part you want that airs on Joost (like Tivo)
• Windows Vista Ultimate Extra plugin. It could go hand-in-hand with the one that allows you to set videos as the computer’s wallpaper
• One that lets you stream video off of your computer to devices connected to your network
• A feature for HD content for the users with very fast connections
• A set top box to play on a tv. It would be cool if joost works with the Xbox 360 when it gains IPTV ability plug in that let’s me have a channel with my own content(stuff that I have on my computer).
• a plug in I would like to see is one that let’s me watch the channel’s I get through my TV-card within Joost
• a plugin that allows you to create your own channel , like a blog, so you could make your screencast together
• A rss feed reader for the various channel you know a sort of podcast for the people that have a channel,you subscribe to that channel and you get a list of programs in a predeterminate timespan like a TV Guide
• A plugin for Windows Live Messenger (MSN) that shows what you’re currently watching, just like the “what you’re listening to” feature it already has
• A plugin that allows you to record the broadcast straight into an AVI video
• A tool that lets you fast forward through commercials and stuff.
• Save videos to PSP format, or at least be able to stream them to PSP through WiFi or whatever.
• A channel preview, like a chapter selection in some dvds this channel preview must be customizable with the channel we like the most and saved (to a xml file) for send to a friend!

          

Add comment February 9th, 2007

Joost for the Mac

Joost is set to release an alpha version of Joost for the Intel powered Mac for about 100 users to help test out and give feedback to. A beta version is also set to be released for more beta testers in the coming weeks once the feedback is received.

          

1 comment February 6th, 2007

Joost v0.7.4 Released

If you are a Joost newsletter subscriber, you should have gotten an email this morning letting you know that v0.7.4 has been released.

In it, they have incorporated a lot of beta tester feedback including better support for certain local configurations, firewalls and virus scanners, fixed crashes, and even user interface modifications such as better fonts.

The Joost developers have also improved the small window behavior, improved the tooltips, and added channel numbers in the EPG that are selectable from the keyboard. Airbag support is now included in the client which will create a minidump file in the minidump directory within the profile directory if the
client program crashes. They have also enabled dual monitor support again; the window can be dragged from screen to screen or to overlap screens.

It is still in beta so suggestions and improvements are still welcome and being worked on. The end of the newsletter says to expect more channels and more functionality in the coming updates.

          

Add comment February 6th, 2007

Want Joost? Give an idea for a Plugin

As you may already know, since Joost was developed under the Mozilla platform, it may later allow for custom Joost plug-ins to be developed. If you’ve got an idea for a plug-in, submit it in our forums. All submissions until tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 6th, 12 PM Pacific Time) will be entered in a random drawing for a Joost invite. The best submissions will also be posted here for everyone to see. We want your ideas to be unique and original but at the same time, realistic. Who knows, maybe some developer reading this will actually try and implement your vision.

          

2 comments February 5th, 2007