Ars' First Look at Joost

We recently mentioned that the Joost IPTV streaming video service had released an Intel Mac compatible beta version of their client. Now Ars Technica has put up a First Look and it looks pretty darn cool. While there are still some rough edges to be ironed out with text and performance, Ars reports that "the Mac client is a near replica of the Windows client" and "provided a good Mac experience, with no real navigational or functionality problems to speak of." This sort of thing is exactly what makes the Intel transition so great. It's hard to imagine that we'd be getting nearly as many of these sorts of things on the Mac were we still on PPC. It's unfortunate that owners of PPC Macs are shut out, but perhaps they can console themselves with the thought that now they have yet another good reason to upgrade! Unfortunately, the Joost service is still closed to new users (though you can register for an invite). I've been waiting for a while, but reports like this make me that much more eager to get one so I try it out for myself.

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Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070221-8890.html

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miki

plese send me too

March 09 2007 at 10:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

miki

please send me an ivnite in return i'll send an active account for a site that streams live broadcast in divx quality 2 minutes late
i'm at mikisap@bezeqint.net

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miki

please send me an ivnite in return i'll send an active account for a site that streams live broadcast in divx quality 2 minutes late

March 09 2007 at 9:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mat Lu

@22: I would regard a PPC port a rather unlikely.

February 22 2007 at 9:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

vbbr

Is there going to be a PPC port in future ?

February 22 2007 at 7:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Austin

I'd like an invite please!
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February 22 2007 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

austinbond

Please me as well! I signed up months ago..still no invite! austinbond at gmail dot com.

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matt

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I'd really appreciate one, thanks!

February 22 2007 at 3:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Eric Chiu

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count me in!

February 22 2007 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

I'm quite impressed by the similarity in performance and feel with the Mac client. The overall style fits in either OS environment, but I feel it syncs well with OS X, the vector-clean edges of menus looking particularly nice on my MBP's screen. I do look forward to a PPC release as I'd be interested in seeing the requirements for it. I have an old G3 PowerMac I would like to find a good use for (and barring the fact that the current minimum is 1GHz for Joost) I think streaming a media center would be fine.

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