Yesterday, I received a very friendly invite from Boris for the Joost - the new peer shared TV property from the makers of Skype.
In the short amount of time I have had to explore the software that they may have the nose for a winner.
The interface is simple, snappy and intuitive. It's fun to explore the, admittedly, beta content but word through the grapevine is that CNN, NHL and other more interesting properties will be finding their way onto the small screen.
Small screen? On my iMac the fullscreen quality is fairly smooth with minor jaggies and rendering artifacts which are most likely the result of our bursty internet connectivity here in the North. The quality is far better than YouTube and the content is more interesting... mostly, we are definitely in beta territory here.
The profit model on this? Probably the much craved "carte blanche" ability to buy individual channels without having to pay for all the cr$p you wish you didn't have to pay for. As a non-cable, no-tv household I would love to have a wish-list of: CBC, A&E, TSN, CBS, NBC, Weather Channel and Teletoon :). Perhaps some others but it would be nice to have the ability to buy 'em as singles.
Anyway, I will explore this service a bit more but will need to watch out for exceeding my data bit-cap as this is a Peer to Peer application you are uploading and downloading information.
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Ooooh. Wanna send me one of your unlimited invites? Pretty please!
By the way I would second having CBC. I'm going through withdrawl down here.
It's in the post.