Posts Tagged with ‘livestation’

Last September I wrote about Livestation, a then newly launched online television service in private beta which followed in the footsteps of Joost and Babelgum, but had one clear difference in that it offered 'live' radio/TV streams from popular broadcasters such as BBC. Where all of the competition offers 'on-demand' content that can be paused and played back at any time, Livestation takes the old-school route (similar to traditional television) in providing live video and audio content for its users.
Now, [...]

It has been more than 5 months since I first began testing the invite-only beta of Joost. Today now officially marks the public launch of the online television service, and Joost proudly claims on their mildly redesigned homepage that they have accumulated 250+ channels and 15,000+ TV shows.
Although the Joost software has been updated now to version 1.0, the service makes sure to state that “Joost is still Beta software — there's a lot more work to be [...]

The growing list of IPTV services that allow broadband users to watch television programming through the internet now has some new competition backed by none other than Microsoft.
LiveStation, which just debuted at IBC 2007 in Amsterdam, is a service that lets you watch television online and is one of the first platforms to use Microsoft's Silverlight technology.
LiveStation has some key differences that make it unlike any of the other internet television services available, which actually make it more like traditional [...]