Comments on: Joost now available for Mac http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:46:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Paul M. Watson http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99899 Paul M. Watson Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:39:44 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99899 In Ireland you are supposed to say "spanner" not "tool", mads. Get it right eh ;) As for the P2P bit you may be right but our experiences were still poor. I'd expect decent performance from Joost with one user or a million users because it is a professional product and company distributing professional content. Their target market is also Joe Average who has no notion of P2P and will not care about your explanation, he will just want to watch telly on his laptop, no excuses. Otherwise he'll turn off Joost and go back to Sky. In Ireland you are supposed to say “spanner” not “tool”, mads. Get it right eh ;)
As for the P2P bit you may be right but our experiences were still poor. I’d expect decent performance from Joost with one user or a million users because it is a professional product and company distributing professional content. Their target market is also Joe Average who has no notion of P2P and will not care about your explanation, he will just want to watch telly on his laptop, no excuses. Otherwise he’ll turn off Joost and go back to Sky.

]]> By: keith bohanna http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99898 keith bohanna Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:39:15 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99898 Yea Stanley :-) Altho that logic, while making sense, is not exactly helping my Skype experience. Which has gone from 200,000 users when I started using it (and nice quality thank you) to over 9M last week and patchy at best. keith (off to look up a raftery in my Readers Digest DIY guide - after hammers and before screwdrivers) Yea Stanley :-)
Altho that logic, while making sense, is not exactly helping my Skype experience. Which has gone from 200,000 users when I started using it (and nice quality thank you) to over 9M last week and patchy at best.

keith (off to look up a raftery in my Readers Digest DIY guide - after hammers and before screwdrivers)

]]> By: mads http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99896 mads Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:19:15 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99896 It's P2P you tool, which means the MORE users are on THE BETTER it will be. So if it's a) on a queit Sunday morning and b) still in Beta, you're going to hit the hurdles you point out. Just wait. It’s P2P you tool, which means the MORE users are on THE BETTER it will be. So if it’s a) on a queit Sunday morning and b) still in Beta, you’re going to hit the hurdles you point out.

Just wait.

]]> By: neil http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99816 neil Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:02:55 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99816 No worries Tom No worries Tom

]]> By: Tom Raftery http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99795 Tom Raftery Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:12:04 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99795 Sorry guys - I only had two invites and I gave them both away a couple of weeks back Sorry guys - I only had two invites and I gave them both away a couple of weeks back

]]> By: neil http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99791 neil Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:25:42 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99791 I was just about to try it out when I discovered I'll have to wait to get it. Unless someone was to send me an invite that is... Got any you'd like to throw this way? I was just about to try it out when I discovered I’ll have to wait to get it. Unless someone was to send me an invite that is…

Got any you’d like to throw this way?

]]> By: Paul M. Watson http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99786 Paul M. Watson Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:54:57 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99786 Same problem here Tom. I tried Joost on Vista a few weeks ago and didn't get anywhere with it. I was hoping for more from the Mac version and I got more, but not much. I'd press play on a channel, leave it for an hour, come back and it would have downloaded about 12 minutes of video which wasn't exactly high quality. It isn't my line either. I was using Veoh the other day and was impressed as a 350mb high-quality DIVX movie downloaded in 25minutes. I know Joost uses UDP and fancy P2P technology to get the most out of the network but maybe it is too fancy and is getting caught up in itself. I also find Joost very frustrating for techies like us who want some kind of feedback on download rates. Same problem here Tom. I tried Joost on Vista a few weeks ago and didn’t get anywhere with it. I was hoping for more from the Mac version and I got more, but not much. I’d press play on a channel, leave it for an hour, come back and it would have downloaded about 12 minutes of video which wasn’t exactly high quality.

It isn’t my line either. I was using Veoh the other day and was impressed as a 350mb high-quality DIVX movie downloaded in 25minutes.

I know Joost uses UDP and fancy P2P technology to get the most out of the network but maybe it is too fancy and is getting caught up in itself. I also find Joost very frustrating for techies like us who want some kind of feedback on download rates.

]]> By: Nick http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99785 Nick Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:26:26 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99785 I wouldn't mind trying Joost out, if you have any invites left. thanks. I wouldn’t mind trying Joost out, if you have any invites left. thanks.

]]> By: joost http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99784 joost Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:07:31 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99784 Please could you send me a joost invite to hoprety@gmail.com. Please could you send me a joost invite to hoprety@gmail.com.

]]> By: keith bohanna http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99783 keith bohanna Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:58:50 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/joost-now-available-for-mac/#comment-99783 It is generally better than that Tom but can be freezie from time to time. keith It is generally better than that Tom but can be freezie from time to time.

keith

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