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Curious about Joost now? What about some facts?
Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.
- created by Niklas Zennström
and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa ) - based on XULRunner and the audio management re-uses the ZAP Media Kit
- video playback utilizes the CoreCodec, CoreAVC H.264 video decoder
- really nice gui
- video on demand, totally free
- no need to watch a stream from the beginning to the end, e.g. fast forward to a specific time
- playback starts at the position where you left Joost on start-up
- constantly growing video archive
- divisions of Viacom (including MTV Networks , BET Networks and Paramount Pictures ) will license their "television and theatrical programing" to Joost
- also licensing agreements in place with Ministry of Sound TV , Warner Music , the production company Endemol , Diversion Media , CBS , CenterStaging's rehearsals.com
- for the sport fans: Joost signed a deal to distribute NHL content, including full game replays of the Stanley Cup Finals, and vintage games
- for a beta it's working quite nice, incredibly nice imho
- several community features, like a built-in jabber client, chat, rating of clips you see
- public version will be able to be extended by user-written extensions
