Joost, She Is Dying
- May 4th, 2007
- 6 Comments
I know, I know: I owe you guys Joost invites. I’ll try to put something together next week, but as we’re learning today the service is massively overburdened. According to Liz over at NewTeeVee, they’ve been having all sorts of trouble on their Intel Macs and that Joost is looking into the problems as we speak.
I tried Joost for a little while last week and I found fairly usable, if a little silly. Watching TV on a computer is difficult. If you’re not completely engrossed, you’re essentially generating white noise for yourself and if you’re engrossed, you’re not doing any work. I think it’s a compelling idea — building out a homebrew broadcasting service from the ground up — but I’m worried about its long-term value.
Joost is Error Prone [NewTeeVee]
Mark (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“they’ve been having all sorts of trouble on their Intel Macs” - There’s the problem right there. They’re using Macs! …pfft
K.C. (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Yeah watching TV on PC not that appealing to me at least.
bpm2000 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
heh. I wonder if the concept is coming a little early…
Sascha (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I also have some invites left which I could offer to anyone who is interested. I’ve been using it a while back but the client had massive problems on Vista, not sure if they finally fixed that. I’ll have to try it again.
James (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I’m a lot more enthusiastic about TV on the PC after watching some shows on ABC.com’s new video player. That thing is seriously fantastic. I’d say the picture quality, in full screen on my 20.1″ widescreen monitor, approaches DVD quality.
. . . I hope more broadcasters follow ABC’s lead. It could easily be the future of television.
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I don’t watch TV nor have any desire to watch any more of it on a PC - life is too short a gift to waste passively watching mostly nonsense and worthless marketing crap. Discovery channel etc… they got some good stuff, but even that becomes mind numbing - not for me…
Jon