Comments on: Does Joost Presage the Demise of Downloadable Software?

By: Sam Hasler

Sam Hasler — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:30:35 +0000

They’ve also got competition now from Adobe with thier new Media player: http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer/

Having tried it out I found Adobe Media Player to have a much more responsive UI than Joost, and they’ve actually got some decent content from CBS (CSI, Jericho).

It’s just a pity you can’t subscribe to any content like Miro, then I it would be the only player I’d need.

By: Louis Choquel

Louis Choquel — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:58:59 +0000

And don’t forget that downloadable software also enables syncing with mobile handsets, portable media players and other stuff to come.
Tthat counts: iTunes’ success is all about syncing content with the iPod. Much more that than the iTunes store IMHO.

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:17:55 +0000

The future I see for the Joost client is possibly a Joost media server that streams to devices from a PC so they can increase the install base and p2p networking this will come even more important as multi screen viewing and the migration of IPTV to the Loungeroom become the norm .

I dont see the Consumer electronics companies putting full blown PC capabilities in their devices but they will make their devices network ready and run browsers .The Wii is a great example of this as Well as HPs Media Extender TV .

This is where Joost has an advantage being download based instead because the client will be able to stream content and services to various underpowered devices over a home network at Ethernet speeds.

By: funtomas

funtomas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:19:05 +0000

Another reason behind their back-off might be the BitTorrent itself since it requires open ports and NAT traversal, not enabled at most working spaces. YouTube trffic peaks at noon, doesn’t it?

By: Stéphane Loeuillet

Stéphane Loeuillet — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:53:13 +0000

Don’t forget that Joost is proprietary and requires being registered. It also only exists on Windows AFAIK.

I’ll wait for P2P-Next initiative to bring streamable video content based on a super-set of BitTorrent protocol to see if it is dead or not