ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| Not surprising
Joost was a great idea, but, IMHO, it had two fatal flaws. First, they tried to reinvent the wheel with their proprietary player. Great idea when it worked. It never did on my PC. The thing would crash every single time I started it. After quite a bit of troubleshooting, I simply gave up.
The second flaw was the same flaw that many other services suffer from: a fixation with video on the computer. I watch video on my monitor, but I'd greatly prefer watching it on my TV. I watch computer video out of necessity, not because I like it that way. |
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mokaiba
Premium
join:2009-06-25 | ok
ok |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ | reply to ISurfTooMuch
Re: Not surprising
And I don't see a promising future for them as a wholesaler to ISPs either. Hulu already has that action tied up. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
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Don't know about you, but I can display anything from these laptops on my HDTV - including hulu/joost/veoh/fancast/youtube - whatever.
Plug in one cord, HDMI, and everything gets switched to the HDTV automatically.
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Think outside the Fox... Opera |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
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said by ISurfTooMuch  :The second flaw was the same flaw that many other services suffer from: a fixation with video on the computer. I watch video on my monitor, but I'd greatly prefer watching it on my TV. I watch computer video out of necessity, not because I like it that way. I agree. I don't understand why these folks don't get it. Perhaps they do and they don't WANT to make it easy yet though? |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | reply to mokaiba
They lost me on day-one
...all that hype -- only to find I wasn't one of the lucky few to trial the service. I never even checked-back.
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Remember the future. |
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azrael99
@rr.com | They should really finish their Iphone App update for OS 3.0 - a lot of people are actually using that to view Joost as it is. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | Proprietary player
that was enough to make me say thanks but no thanks.
WMP can do DRM! |
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ztmike
Mark for moderation
Premium
join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN |  No thanx
I gave up on Joost because their catalog selection sucked ass. Not to mention it was based on P2P technology. No thanx |
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