Comments on: A Look at Joost. Two Words: It Stinks.

By: Joostsucks

Joostsucks — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:15:25 +0000

Joost sucks. I just googled Joost sucks and this page was at the top of the list. They need to get their act together or just file for bankruptcy. Stop teasing us… and die.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:29:16 +0000

Hate to tell you Folk sbut Jon is a total hypocrite and Cranky Geeks is Now On Joost .

I Invited John to Joost told him that is was still a closed beta and there wasnt much content and he still wrote this piece (With my full name in the original article I asked him to remove ) .

Well its very amusing to see John on Joost …..wonder if he will ever mention this article …..

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:32:41 +0000

I can’t recall the last time something sucked this hard. Lemme see: ridiculous resource hog, slow, crap interface, slow, buggy, slow, crap interface, slow, buggy, etc. Holy crap, it’s crap. It’s really, really, really crap. And after that, it’s crap some more. Everything about Joost screams “morons!” I don’t get it. These are the people who brought us Napster AND Skype? WTF? Did they invest all of their money in crack? Here, Joost, a few clues for you:
1. Enough of the resource hunger.
2. Enough of the crap interfece.
3. It’s 2007. Hello? My graphics card outputs video to my TV and I would like to USE it for watching video.
4. Why is everything so hard to do with Joost?
5. While you’re at it, if you’re gonna make me work so damn hard, could I have some content I am actually gonna watch? Thanks a bunch. You guys are heroes!

By: TheOldMan

TheOldMan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:13:13 +0000

It’s months later. Joost STILL sucks! Little choice of content, invasive ads (not just ad supported, but invasive ads). I’d rather pay iTunes. I’d pay Joost too, if they get content. So far there’s still nothing worth watching.

By: roddenberry

roddenberry — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:44:39 +0000

I prefer definitively this innovative and interactive way to watch TV even it’s an imperfect beta version.

By: Ggoose

Ggoose — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:31:32 +0000

I have tried it for two days and I have mixed feelings. Sometimes the quality is not all that great. Others times it is pretty good. The biggest problems I have had with it are bugs and issues that MUST be resolved if Joost is to actually fly

1. It crashes some cheap routers … mine crashes like clockwork at about 1 hour. I am not the only one with this problem and it is a BIG one that will need to be resolved. Telling folks they need a new router to use Joost isn’t going to fly.
2. The ad placement right now is terrible and I have no clue how these ads are targeted. I get the same ones on every channel I watch.

That said I think with tweaks and good content they can pull it off. Its just a wait and see game for consumers. Personally, I am rooting for them.

By: Tad

Tad — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:06:15 +0000

i got invites and got signed up but forgot my username and password so i dont know if it sucks

By: mack

mack — Sat, 05 May 2007 18:14:17 +0000

Ive been watching joost for about a week, i think its amazing, this technology is eventually going to destroy cable television as we know it. I have no problem finding a cool show to watch on this program (discovery, movies, comedy central) and watching a short Advertisement once in an hour is really something that doesn’t bother me. I have my computer sending s-video to my tv and the quality is better than my cable gives me. The sound is also great. watching it on my tv i don’t even notice that its streaming off of the internet.

By: Matt Laney

Matt Laney — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:08:05 +0000

Haha! Great post. Guess Conan got it right then.
http://sniptools.com/musings/conan-calls-a-spade-a-spade
“It is called television!”

By: Esat

Esat — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:48:12 +0000

I would like to test joost beta.

Please send me the invitation to mail mail id :

abespap@gmail.com

Thanks

esat

By: alex

alex — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:09:59 +0000

Just got my invite today – still no content…
25 channels and nothing’s on.
Some good clips from BBC top gear program – altough
there is so much more of these on utube…

Totally agree with you John,
in order for this sucker to succeed it should have 5 live channels 24 hours a day –
Right now IT SUCKS big time.

By: FK

FK — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:25:10 +0000

It definitely sounds unreasonable that you would get hung up on inadequate content for a beta software. I would love to test the beta version. If anyone can forward me an invite to fkoro@hotmail.com I’d appreciate it.

Thanks.

By: sudheer

sudheer — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:34:38 +0000

HI,

I would like to test joost beta.

Please send me the invitation to mail mail id :

msudheer@gmail.com

Thanks

sudheer

By: anon

anon — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:23:11 +0000

It’s interesting that in this post you say it is all about the content, but then in your MarketWatch article you say that there is no intrinsic value to a 3 minute clip of Daily Show on YouTube.

Aren’t those two statements contradictory to each other?

By: Greenie

Greenie — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:22:00 +0000

Got my invite this morning and loaded Joost immediately. I hadn’t read Dvorak’s comments, but after about five minutes with Joost I was Googling “Joost sucks”. Couldn’t agree more.