Well, I finally got an invitation to JOOST, I understand it is in the Beta stages and so one must give it a better chance.
So far I have been staring at a Black Screen, I am on DSL and am probably on the lower limit as to bandwidth so I am giving it a chance to load up a program, I did not choose a program to watch, I just let whatever came up happen.
I noticed that there are music channels, but it appears to be mostly MTV, which I will assume means Pop and Hip Hop, thanks but no thanks. Again I have to give it a chance as it is new and in development stages.
I live rurally and to be honest TV reception sucks. There is no Cable available and I do not want to subscribe to satellite TV for the time being. So Internet TV sounds like one of those too good to be true things (if its too good to be true, it probably isnt comes to mind).
After a half an hour, I changed the channel, not really something I wanted to watch in particular, but what the heck I want to see if it works.
I have been reading the news articles about Joost and understand that new channels are going to be added soon, so if oner is a fan of CSI, he might be able to watch Grissom and Willows at work.
Well back to staring at the black screen. I will report back once and if it works.
A few moments later:
It seems that some channels just have no viewers or something and the peer to peer doesnt work. I changed channels again and came up with programming. So far I am not really impressed with what is offered for viewing, but if the promises are true, I bet it gets better, soon.
I am going to take the wait and see attitude for the time being, I hope it turns into a substitute for the boob tube, till then I will check back frequently to see if anything changes. I am sure it will and the sooner the better.
Technically I really have few if any complaints, when a show is on, there are rare moments of freeze frame but in fact not near as bad as YouTube. Remember though I am on a DSL line that averages 1250 Mbps which is towards the minimum and in fact upload is far less than the minimum. I also see that if bandwidth usage is an issue one needs to right click on the Joost Icon in the toolbar and Exit the program that way or it will still be using band width.
I am interested in the future of this, and I do agree that it just might be the next hot item for the Internet, Move Over YouTube, Joost will be the next most often talked about item on the Internet, that I can say for sure.
