Transformer, the original series now on Joost
Posted on 28 Jun @ 23:23 by: 
Mark Webster
So, at this point, just about everyone knows that the live-action Transformers movie will hit theatres here in the US next week. And I have to say, I’m pretty excited.
I’m what you’d call a dormant Transformers fan. Growing up, I used to watch the cartoon religiously, had my fair share of the toys and, for a time, considered myself an honorary Autobot. (I suspect it’s telling whether a young kid associates with the heroic Autobots or the evil Decepticons … but I digress.)
As I got older, my love for the Transformers fell by the wayside. It wasn’t until Hasbro launched the Transformers channel on Joost a few months back that I was reunited with these old friends. The channel featured the Transformers: Armada series, which was new to me but featured all the classic characters I know and love.
Well, this great channel is about to get even better. Today, Joost and Hasbro are premiering the first season of the original Transformers: Generation 1 series, in all of its full-screen, full-length glory! This is the series that most of us grew up with and remember so well. We’re starting with the first season, but we have plans to add more and more episodes, and we’ll show the entire G1 series soon.
With all this Transformers on the brain, I’m fully prepared to see the movie next week. I may even have to do the whole standing-in-line-on-opening-night thing. What’s fun about opening night for a movie like this is that the entire theater will be full of true fans. If you’ve never seen a fan favourite like this during its first showing, it’s quite an experience and highly recommended.
In the meantime, be sure to check out the Transformers channel (http://joost.com/0560016) on Joost. We also stuck a bunch of trailers and previews for the movie in the channel, so click on the Transformers logo to check them out.
The Transformers are back. It’s like 1984 all over again!
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Beauty TV(R), the world’s only beauty TV network today announced that it will bring program offerings to Joost(TM), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service. See http://www.joost.com/whatsjoost.html.
!It is interesting to note that Joost beta testers are now more than half a million… this is not insignificant by any means!
Key to the free service for consumers is the placement of advertising in the content. For content that is not free such as 1st run movies a charge of between US$3.99 for 720 content and $5.99 for 1080p HD content will apply.
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