Joost starting beta testing of live streaming

Yep, you read this right. Joost is currently running a beta test of live video streaming from it’s Leiden office. Joost users are invited to test the experimental client. Test will run until 8 PM GMT on Feb 27 2008.

So far the experience appear to be going well. I downloaded the new [...]

Stage6 down the drain

OK, I compared back then the Joost video quality to Stage6 and found the later to be better… but guess what! Joost officially outlasted Stage6. In a statement Stage6 said:

“So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that [...]

CollegeHumor to Distribute Original Video Content on Joost

NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 22, 2008 – CollegeHumor (www.collegehumor.com), the definitive source for irreverent student humor and leading online source of original comedy videos, today announced that it will bring its high-quality CHTV original videos to Joost™ (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.

CollegeHumor’s CHTV original videos will be made available on Joost through the [...]

HULU CEO Jason Kilar To Deliver Keynote Speech At NAB Show

Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, an online video joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp, will present a keynote address at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday April 16, 2008.

Kilar will discuss the trends and technologies that are enticing content providers to distribute and deliver content as never before.

Hulu is a [...]

LiveStation goes multi-channel

As you might be aware LiveStation is offering streaming TV content over the internet. It uses P2P technology to scale in a way similar to Joost. Where it is different from Jost is that the content is from live TV station instead of archived content.
This new beta initially offer access to a limited number [...]

Television Networks to Put More Shows Online

Nearly 330 production companies showed off television shows and movies here at the National Association of Television Program Executives conference this week, hoping to sell the syndication rights to local stations in the United States and abroad.

This year at the biggest conference in syndication — where local affiliate stations fill their shopping carts with enough content [...]

Paul Yanez Create the Hulu Media Player

Hulu may have an amazing selection of videos from Fox and NBC available for streaming on the web. But there are at least two problems with the service right now:

Hulu is in private beta, meaning you can only access videos if you have an account or if someone’s been kind enough to embed the video [...]