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Joost plans to offer live TV streams
PaidContent:UK reports that Joost will start offering live streaming television programs to US customers during the first quarter of 2008. While most of the content available through the peer-to-peer software right now is on-demand, Joost officials say the platform can also transmit streams at the same time as they are broadcast on television. Once the program is finished, users will be able to watch an on-demand version.
If Joost can pull this off, and if the company can sign enough content partnerships with networks and sports associations like MLB, Joost could eventually provide the ability to watch TV on any computer without first installing a TV tuner. Better yet, since you're not limited to local broadcasts, you'll be able to watch television programs from around the world.
On the other hand, something tells us most networks are still going to want you to watch their programming live on television or via their own websites where they have more control over the advertising.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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azum5 said 4:04PM on 10-10-2007
Have you guys heard of Zattoo? It is pupular in Europe, and has a beta version available in the states. It was started at the University of Michigan (which explains why beta invites are limited to Mich students for now). It is live TV (guaranteed
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azum5 said 4:07PM on 10-10-2007
guaranteed
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azum5 said 4:12PM on 10-10-2007
(What the heck, you can't put numbers in comments?, it kept cutting it off when I inserted a less than sign and a number...)
guaranteed less than thirty seconds delay from your cable. They have quite a few chanels including Comedy Central, USA and FOX and others and they all are very high quality.
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newcomer said 8:07AM on 11-16-2007
TVUPlayer, www.tvunetworks.com, has been doing p2p live streaming for awhile. They have lots of interesting channels from FOX, Turner, and etc.
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