It's been now a few days since I was invited to join the Joost army of beta testers and I have to say that I like it a lot. It's something new, it's something free and it's in good quality. I love it.

For those who don't know what Joost is, it's a kind of TV-on-demand, only it's distributed and streamed from the intenet. It's the 2.0 version of the television. It comes in a really nice glossy shaped software that is compatible with both Windows (works perfectly on Vista) and Mac OS. The setup is really easy and you can start watching for interesting stuff right away.

The Joost channel catalog has a few of really popular shows and channels like MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central. Besides that, there's a lot of indie music oriented shows and alternative content. The quality of the video is pretty decent and acceptable even on big screens. The shows stream quickly and without interruptions and they rarely run out of buffer. It seems to me like it has a lot of potential but the calatog is just not wide and big enough, yet, but I believe that's going to get better with time, when they start adding new prorgams and more content. It's surely a nice big step forward for the IPTV and I look forward to using it more.

If you have a chance to try it - DO IT.

- Patrik