I was pretty excited a couple of days a go when I received a Joost invitation via Mashable. I went to download the application, it detected I was on MAC OS X (which was nice), and then came the bad news. Because I still have a PowerBook G4, it turns out I’m not worthy of Joost; I was very disappointed.
I think Internet TV is one of the most exciting developments on the Internet today. And with vendors such as Joost starting to show some real television content (you know, the mainstream stuff you’ll find on free-to-air or pay-tv), it is making some real ground and will soon become a real choice for watching tv.
There are lots of other people really disappointed with Joost’s decision not to support PowerPC MAC OS X users too.
Us PowerPC people do have choices however! I was reading Mashable today, and they have an article on Democracy Internet TV (soon to be Miro) receiving Mozilla investment. So I downloaded Democracy, which was a nice experience. I even watched an episode of National Geographic.
While I was stoked that Democracy Internet TV worked and looked great (it has a nice user friendly interface), I’m still disappointed that I can’t use Joost. From a glance, Joost seem to have more mainstream content, which I think Internet TV needs before it will become a real option for tv viewers.
Fingers crossed Joost hear all this noise!
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