Owen from the PPP forums kindly sent me an invite for the Joost application, from the people that bought us Skype.
The idea behind Joost is to enable the transmission of full screen quality video, over the internet in real time.
Quite a lofty ideal, and the interface is quite well layed out. Unfortunately, in the few feeds I’ve selected so far, my little 256KBit connection hasn’t quite been fast enough to keep the stream from skipping, but one day I’ll get a 1Mbit unmetered connection over here, then I’ll be putting Joost to full use.
The main difference between Joost and ‘normal’ TV is that you can choose what to watch and when.
I’ll be posting more details after I’ve tested it a little further.
This post isn’t sponsored at all, I’ve just written it to say thanks to Owen for the invite needed to download the beta application, and to Skype for producing the application 🙂
Now all I need is for a decent broadband infrastructure to be created in this country, and I’m good to go 🙂
May 6th, 2007 1:05 am
Don’t you hate it when you have to wait for technology to reach you. Our friends live in the country and can’t get cable internet. It is driving him crazy. You guessed right about what country we were in when Hubby and I had that picture taken. We were in Holland.
May 6th, 2007 12:17 pm
Thanks for the comment.
We have the technology, we just have pretty bad customer-orientated service in this country.
Things are slowly improving. If I had a normal phone line, through the national phone company, we could already get unlimited downloads, albeit at 128Kbit. And about 60% cheaper than the current connection we have.
My ISP bill for two and a bit months was ~ $400 🙁