The Clock is Ticking for Joost

// added October 12, 2007 // 4 comments //
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/12/the-clock-is-ticking-for-joost/

"There’s a time bomb out there with Joost’s name on it. Full-screen, broadcast-quality video streams—the main selling point of Joost’s peer-to-peer Internet TV client software—is quickly coming to the Web. Brightcove will soon be offering such streams to its video publishers using BitTorrent DNA. But the real threat to Joost will be coming from Adobe and its ubiquitous Flash player.

Sometime in the next few months, Adobe is expected to incorporate the H.264 codec in all Flash players with the general release of Flash Player 9. You can already download a beta version from Adobe Labs. The H.264 codec is part of MPEG-4 and is the codec that Apple uses to compress all of the video downloads on iTunes. Once H.264 is part of Flash, the quality of streaming video on the Web will roughly double at current bandwidth speeds. That means YouTube videos will look twice as good—and those will likely remain on the low end in quality.

Every video site on the Web (and quite a few that are still in stealth) is just waiting for Flash Player 9 to be distributed widely and become the new standard. That will allow them to launch their own full-screen Internet TV services with video streams that are just as good or better than Joost’s, and that will require nothing more than a regular browser to watch."

Personally, I love using Joost. What's your thought?
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4 comments // The Clock is Ticking for Joost

  • mpegcto
  • wbergey
  • sumfight
  • willbpayne
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      willbpayne  

    • joost is pretty cool; i havent used it in a while, but definitely think its a great idea.

      one of those phases when companies like this either keep innovating and taking over from nowhere, or get bought by one of the bigger companies unable to innovate, but wanting access to this new market.

      oh, capitalism...

    • 2 years ago
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