Well tonight I took about 45min to cruise through JOOST. Overall I have to say I enjoyed it. The programming is quite a bit larger than I expected although some may consider still a tad limited in relation to today’s world of 900+ cable channels.

Now for the interface and quality. The JOOST interface was fairly intuitive although I did have trouble finding where to shut it off when I was done watching and at one point during a viewing of some Hawaii Big Surf program I got a small popup menu opened inadvertently that took me quite a while to get rid of as it didn’t have an easily identifiable ‘x’ in the top right corner.

The quality of video overall, in full screen on my system, was not that great but it also wasn’t horrible. Keep in mind my box, although roughly a year old, is by no means a high end video/gaming box. I’m sure my video card is ’so so.’ I have a gig of ram on this PC & the other regular jazz that comes with a HP box…I’ll dig up the actual video card for any techies that care. Later this week I’ll provide some screen caps of my adventure in the belly of JOOST if their TOS allows it.

One more thing, for those of you thinking this is an advertiser free zone, think again. This is basically like TV on the Internet. I saw 2 commercials while in there but they really didn’t seem overly intrusive compared to regular network/cable programming.

I look forward to this platform maturing into wider acceptance and usage.

If anyone wants an invite shoot me an email and I’ll see what I can do…I’m just not sure how many my account has to give out but I can inquire.

type-atcha-later,
Sean

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