Joost – finaly true internet television

Joost is an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer tv technology, created by Niklas Zennstrm and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). Joost began development in 2006. Working under the code name “The Venice Project,” Zennstrom and Friis have assembled teams of some 150 software developers in about a half-dozen cities around the world, including New York, London, Leiden and Toulouse. Joost’s CTO is Dirk-Willem van Gulik.

The teams are currently in negotiations with TV networks. It has signed up with Warner Music, Ministry of Sound TV and production company Endemol for the beta. In February 2007, Viacom entered into a deal with the company to distribute content from its media properties, including MTV Networks, BET and film studio Paramount Pictures. Company representatives have gone on record as saying the name should be pronounced as “juiced”. This differs from the pronunciation of the Dutch first name Joost, which is pronounced ‘Yohst.’

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The program is based on P2PTV technology and is expected to deliver near-TV resolution images. It turns a PC into an instant on-demand TV without any need for additional set top box. News updates, discussion forums, show ratings, and multi-user chat sessions (often linked to the active stream/channel) are made possible through the use of semi-transparent widget overlays. The current version of the software is based on XULRunner and the audio management re-uses the ZAP Media Kit. The peer to peer layer comes from the Joltid company, which also provided the peer to peer layer of Skype. The video playback utilizes the CoreCodec, CoreAVC H.264 video decoder.

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Information Source
Official Site
Whats Joost? – Video

Edit: I got an invite…wohhoo more info about the program, it’s features and what I think soon!

Anyone reading this already been invited to the beta testing?
INVITE ME PLEASE

2 thoughts on “Joost – finaly true internet television

  1. My classmates and I checked out the site & its quite hot! Now people will be on their desktops/laptops all day long! Nice, no more tv

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