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Warner Brothers signs on with Joost

Warner Brothers has announced plans to bring programming from WBTV: SCI-FI FLIX and WBTV: Before They Were Mega Stars exclusively to Joost.

Both new Warner Brothers themed channels are expected to launch later this month. The SCI-FI FLIX channel is expected to feature shows like Babylon 5, Max Headroom, My Favorite Martian, and Adventures of Briscoe County.

The Before They Were Mega Stars channel will feature shows that launched the careers of some of Hollywood's greatest stars as well as episodes of popular television shows with celebrity guest appearances. The channel promises a look at past television appearances of stars like Brad Pitt, John Travolta, Diane Keaton, and Kirsten Dunst.

One of the largest complaints about Joost currently is it's lack of programming. Their partnership with the WB brings them one step closer to providing users with content they might actually want to watch.

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Joost makes last call

It's last call for beta testers for Joost. Those with existing Joost beta invites have to pass them out by midnight tomorrow and everyone who applies for the beta program is guaranteed to get a ticket in within the next few weeks.

Joost's special invite only beta was enough to cause quite the stir on the web and spawned a huge "Joost Invitation Project" on Digg with over 2,700 posts requesting an invite with very few actually managing to get one.

We got an invite into the beta program a few weeks ago, and after trying it out have to ask "What's all the fuss about?" Joost does look pretty neat with a variety of widgets that go over a nice video player window. The video quality is pretty sub-par however and the things that they offer for the most part aren't anything anyone would really want to watch, and we're not too excited that what you do watch is encrypted so you're forced to watch them using their closed platform.

The jury's still out on this one. With Viacom recently signing on as a Joost partner we could start seeing some interesting programming, and perhaps some more big name partners being added soon. Joost is definitely not perfect, but it does make a decent step toward bringing television to the web. For those of you out there in TV land that were lucky enough to score an invite into the beta program what did you think?

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Viacom signs a deal with Joost

Just two weeks after they ordered YouTube to take down thousands of videos, Viacom has reportedly struck a deal with another online video site, Joost. A huge point of the deal being that Joost claims to be able to provide copyright protection that YouTube could not for their video. While no financial details of the deal were disclosed you can be sure that Viacom is more than likely walking away with a pretty big chunk of ad revenue as well.

Joost is a video site from the makers of Skype and KaZaa that mimics a television station more than a video sharing site. User created videos will not be shown on the site in order to make way for videos by Warner and now apparently Viacom. Last week the site announced the availability of a new Mac client and they have recently announced deals to show National Geographic documentaries, classic cartoons, films from IndieFlix, and much more.

Joost is still in private beta and is only available for invited beta testers. You can apply to be a Joost beta tester here. Beta accounts are currently pretty scarce. I applied almost a month ago and still haven't been granted clearance.

[via TechCrunch]

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