Don't know how to become one but I really want to become a Joost beta tester. I can't wait for this to be released. Of all the various upcoming "TV on your computer" products this sounds to be the best and a true evolution of TV. It's more than "videos" on YouTube. It's actual film quality content.
In many ways it will be interesting to see if people are ready for it. Undoubtedly there will be the technocrati elite who will latch onto immediately. But will widespread adoption take place. It reminds me of "Internet TV" which I read about in the book New New Thing, where before the world wide web was liberated for the public by Netscape and Al Gore (just kidding on the last one) a number a electronics consortium created a TV top box that access content through the net. It was years, if not decades, ahead of its time. Consequently there was never widespread adoption. People couldn't great their head around what it was and how to use it. They were so stuck in their 30 (at the time) channel universe coming into their house on an analog coaxial cable.
Presumably Joost will be different. We've been pre-tuned to watch video on computers. For many it will be hard to put the computer into the space reserved for the TV in the living room. But Kids in university and those graduated in the past couple years are accustomed to using their computer as TV in their dorm room or first apartments. Once you can plug your 98 inch plasma right into the net you're a step away from Joost becoming your "cable provider."
Who knows what will really happen, but I'm super keen on giving Joost a shot. I've always wanted to watch the nightly news from Moscow on STS.
Hey I'm in the Joost beta. If they give me invites I'll send you one :) Its pretty cool interface, doesn't have a ton of content yet but I think it will be really great when they have more content.
Posted by: Thomas | March 29, 2007 at 06:50 PM
Thomas,
Could you send me an invitation, too?
Thanks a lot!
Posted by: Steven | April 01, 2007 at 06:30 AM
Hey Brett can you send me your email? I can't find it on the site. I just got beta invitations. Steven I'll send you one now :)
Posted by: Thomas | April 02, 2007 at 03:05 PM
Sweet Thomas. I just emailed you my email. About time I put it somewhere on my site... one of these days I shall.
Posted by: Brett Macfarlane | April 02, 2007 at 04:37 PM
Thomas,
I got the invitation from Joost.
Thank you very much! :)
Posted by: Steven | April 03, 2007 at 07:46 AM
Did you get an invite? If not, let me kow and I'll send one over.
Posted by: dan at innocent | April 03, 2007 at 04:16 PM