ISurfTooMuch
join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
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Joost was a great idea, but, IMHO, it had two fatal flaws. First, they tried to reinvent the wheel with their proprietary player. Great idea when it worked. It never did on my PC. The thing would crash every single time I started it. After quite a bit of troubleshooting, I simply gave up.
The second flaw was the same flaw that many other services suffer from: a fixation with video on the computer. I watch video on my monitor, but I'd greatly prefer watching it on my TV. I watch computer video out of necessity, not because I like it that way. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ | And I don't see a promising future for them as a wholesaler to ISPs either. Hulu already has that action tied up. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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Don't know about you, but I can display anything from these laptops on my HDTV - including hulu/joost/veoh/fancast/youtube - whatever.
Plug in one cord, HDMI, and everything gets switched to the HDTV automatically.
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Think outside the Fox... Opera |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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said by ISurfTooMuch  :The second flaw was the same flaw that many other services suffer from: a fixation with video on the computer. I watch video on my monitor, but I'd greatly prefer watching it on my TV. I watch computer video out of necessity, not because I like it that way. I agree. I don't understand why these folks don't get it. Perhaps they do and they don't WANT to make it easy yet though? |
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