Joost

The main reason most peoples likely Joost is why, it’s a service that blends the traditional TV with the social networking in a easy but great interface. It’s nice looking.

Joost does an excellent job, distributing high-quality video content with a technology similar to peer to peer. It ease to interact with your friend while you are watching TV. Joost it’s just ways to add the traditional TV on the net to give the possibility at many users to watching video with full-screen playback, navigating and interact between they.

So it’s worth examining a bit more closely this platform. Its sophisticated interface made right ensures that Joost have never been as easy to manage. You can choose between a large channel guide or skip through with a cable TV like control interface. While the recent trend has been to launch social networking tool that enable to add video amateur with low quality, Joost give a new way to make internet TV. Despite the DVD and HD However it’s a giant jump than you tube.

A nice control panel are placed in the middle of screen and enables you to play and pause or change the volume of the latest video that you are seeing. At the top of the screen you can to access to receive more info on the channel. On the left there is an button to bring up your personalized channel list, instead on the right is an button that allows to access at more widget options availables.

Windows requirements

Windows XP Service Pack 2 (DirectX 9.0c)

Pentium 4 processor, 1GHz

512Mb or superior

Video card 32Mb of VRAM (DirectX support)

Mac requirements

Intel-based Mac (OS X 10.4)

512Mb RAM

You have also the possibility to decide watching through a brief TV-guide. Some of the features are included with Joost can be activated subsequently. Joost also offers a useful full-screen channel catalog that enables to choose your favorite channel through keyword search or category.

The categories includes are:

1) Cartoon and animtion

2) Comedy

3) Documentary

4) Entertainment

5) Lifestyle

6) Music

7) Music Entertainment

Sports and Games

Conclusion

Now we just have to wait to see how long this service takes to get more than competitors like youtube and however I think that the success will expand when the platform will go into public release. I would love to hear you thoughts on this especially if you have any other possible comments.