Posts Tagged with ‘Joost’

You are probably already thinking that, right now, it wouldn't take much to be better than Joost, considering that it is still in beta and experiencing problems. But, I am thinking in terms of a true competitor for the service that is after the same audience and the same media corporations for attention.
Babelgum decided to aim towards a more independent crowd, while Joost aimed straight for the big media companies for content and advertising. Now, according to WebTVWire, “WiTV [...]

Apparently there has been a lot of concern about the video quality and bandwidth requirements of Joost, the free P2P online television application. JoostTeam has done some testing and compared the quality of Joost to both DivX Stage6 and iTunes videos.
According to their findings, the bit rate of Joost videos equals out to only half that of the same videos available from DivX or iTunes. To make matters even worse, it was reported that the resolution of Joost does [...]

In case you haven't heard, NBC & News Corp. recently received $100 million in venture funding from Providence Equity Partners, a Rhode Island-based investment firm that specializes in the media and communications industries. This money, according to the New York Times, "will allow the companies to accelerate the introduction of their service and the transfer of NBC and Fox films and television shows into Internet-friendly video formats."
Oh, and did I mention that, since its March announcement, the yet unnamed company [...]

As I am sure you already know, viral video is all the rage on the internet. It is all about sharing and embedding your favorite video content into other sources such as your social network profile or a blog. Now, bloggers have an all new place to catch the latest videos… but this time, they are not comedic or user-generated. They are news and current event videos.
Today, the NewsMarket, launched VideoCafé, a new service that will give bloggers the ability [...]

Joost, the P2P TV application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has now announced that more than one million users have signed up for its video service, which is still in beta testing and available by invitation only.
Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and Joost co-founder, said at a recent Skype press event that the service should be launched before 2008 arrives. No specific date was announced, but he did say that "the plan is that the service will be fully [...]

A couple weeks ago we did a post on VeohTV and I wanted to share some inside screens and impressions of the service in action currently. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh, graciously demonstrated some of the great features of their TV network, and we are duly impressed. I got the invitation to the beta test a few days ago and have been enjoying some of the great programming and especially the elegant and super functional services within the player.
For those [...]

The BBC recently announced their upcoming iPlayer, an on-demand video player that will allow users to watch BBC television broadcasts seven days after they are aired. iPlayer has been in development since 2003, and you'd think that with that kind of development cycle, they could have clued in to see that times were changing.
The problem? The iPlayer relies on Microsoft's DRM technology, which means if you aren't running a Microsoft operating system, you are out of luck. No Linux or [...]

My old favorite YouTube seems to be chugging along according to the news today. According to statistics from a Hitwise, Inc traffic data, from January to May the market share of visits to YouTube rose 70 percent even in light of the site's legal woes. The next closest site was News Corp's MySpace Video according to the survey with about 16 percent of the market.
YouTube Then the Others
Google's YouTube as of May, 2007 controls over 60 percent of the [...]

One of my favorite Web 2.0 startups Veoh invited me to a webinar today to unveil what they termed a “Joost Killer”, their latest innovation VeohTV Beta. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh has proved to be one of the most innovative and intelligent developers of this year and continues to add one excellent aspect after another to Veoh's service. VeohTV has been designed to provide users with an unparalleled Web TV experience and from Dmitry's demonstration of the new service's capabilities users [...]