Joost Anyone?

[blacknight]

Has anyone tried out Joost yet?

[paddyk]

Originally Posted by blacknight

Has anyone tried out Joost yet?

Had a look at the site. Seems interesting, question is how do you get an invite. I had never heard of it til now

[blacknight]

Existing users can invite other people

[barraseaclaid]

hello all,
first post and i come bearing gifts of a sort...being trying out joost for bout a week now and its ok quality aint tv and can be jumpy if contention ration is high during the day (on 1mb bt line) and to be honest its a friggin hog on system memory but then again its meant to transform your laptop/pc into a tv which it does....your not gonna find lost or any other tv shows on it just yet but still a beta so lets see what the future holds....oh and the gift...as far as i know i have 1000 invites left so pm me...if you got something good/ other invites to exchange we can talk business....

[wimmy]

been trying it for a while it's ok, can be a load on your download limit if you have one, so far 30 channels or so with varied content on the second Beta release and hopefully more to be added up.
For invites email me beyourownreason(at)gmail(dot)com

[barraseaclaid]

Originally Posted by wimmy

can be a load on your download limit if you have one,

so explain this to me when i stream something from joost or whatever even say a site like dailymotion it contributes to my download limit on bt broadband...ie streaming eats into the limit? i thought this was true but the customer service ppl said that it didnt...so can someone tell me say for example i streamed the latest episode of lost from dailymotion this morning if you download an .avi of the episode from torrents its about 350mb in size how big is the streamed file and where is it stored on my comp...in the temp directory or summet?

[wimmy]

It does to a certain extent...
From the Joost team:
"Full-screen video of any kind inevitably use a lot of bandwidth, and The Venice Project™ is no exception to this. The software downloads about 320MB per hour (as a maximum) and uploads up to 105 MB per hour. The more popular the content is on our platform, the more sources it can be pulled from and the less redundant data we send; that number can be as low as 220MB per hour of viewing. We've made what we think is a reasonable trade-off between the quality of the picture and the bandwidth usage, but this is full-screen TV-quality video - so there are limits on how low we can keep bandwidth usage while delivering good picture quality."

Joost™ - Blog

[rymus]

have been trying it off and on at work on 30mbit fibre and it's been mostly ok. Still stutters and stops for buffering sometimes. After that experience, I didn't dare try it on the 1mbit line at home

[martie]

just trying it out at the moment,seems ok
streaming is good(4meg)
thanks to wimmy for the invite