Brits, have you used Joost recently?
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I haven't checked it in months... I was rather annoyed that I couldn't get it to full screen on my TV.
Hmm, I have my TV connected by the monitor output so It works fine for me. Although I am on holiday at the moment and just catching an early morning episode of Transformers on my laptop.
Interestingly, although Americans can't get it, I can still use it while I am over here.
The Macguyver channel is cool, and TOS particularly, they have a whole load of eps available.
ETA: Deckerd, it's free internet streaming TV. Google it, it's quite cool.
Does Joost stream actual tv-channels or their own channels?
I occasionally use TVU and Sopcast to watch foreign sports events and US news channels, but I'm not really happy with either program.
I occasionally use TVU and Sopcast to watch foreign sports events and US news channels, but I'm not really happy with either program.
TOS has a channel all to itself, you can find it under Entertainment.
No, it's their own channels. Have you tried myp2p.eu for streaming sports channels?
I understand, thanks.
Yeah, that's one of my favourite sites in all of the internets.
I just remembered, since last time I installed it, I built a media centre... I can just install it on there.
I can't find Star Trek on here, I looked through 300 or so channels, and did a search, no Star Trek, some Babylon 5, and Lexx, some Star Trek parodies, but no TOS, and I didn't see any Macguyver either.
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I heard about Joost when I was looking up Lexx on the messageboards I use. I'd love to check that series out again, is there a membership fee or a fast connection needed?
No membership. I think 1mbps is the minimum required speed.
System requirements from the website:
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Vista, with DirectX 9.0c (note that you need to have an administrator account)
- Pentium 4 processor, 1 GHz
- 512 MB or more RAM
- A modern video card with DirectX support and at least 32 MB of VRAM
- About 500 MB free disk space
- The Joost software is a 10 MB download, expanding to 30-35 MB on disk. The remainder is used as a cache
- Broadband/ADSL (1 Mbit/s downstream, 512 Kbit/s upstream recommended, although lower speeds may well work)
- 1 hour of viewing is 320 Megabytes downloaded and 105 Megabytes uploaded, which means that a 1 GB cap will be exhausted in about 10 hours (see important note below)
It's actually pretty effective, but yeah I guess people on capped connections would need to look out for that. I've been very impressed with the streaming and the quality of the video though.
I'm using a 768k connection in the states for ths week and it hads been working OK, slightly jittery but generally fine. I have 8MB at home which obviously is absolutely fine. I can watch Joost and keep torrents going with no problem.
I'm using a 768k connection in the states for ths week and it hads been working OK, slightly jittery but generally fine. I have 8MB at home which obviously is absolutely fine. I can watch Joost and keep torrents going with no problem.
