I finally got into the Joost Beta and this beta looks to be pretty open. I did not find (yet) any restrictions on what we can say or not about the program since their blog is pretty public about their plans.
I can only say I am bloody impressed.
* The installation experience was very smooth.
* The UI is so intuitive and easy to use.
* The playback performance is amazing. I am on wireless, downloading a huge file on the other machine and the playback did not freak at all. Oh and yes I forgot I am in Australia..
* The video quality, well that was not the best.. but for full screen video with this sort of playback performance I can compromise. Many pixel blocks specially for fast moving images.
* Channel selection is great, they have quite a few good quality shows
* Ads. They did not bug me. A quick "brought you by" Eclipse before the show. No big deal.
I can totally see myself a big user of this platform specially once they start signing up with more content providers.
4/30/07: I received a few emails asking for an invite to Joost but unfortunately they only gave me 3 invites and I already gave them away :(
