A Cajun-Asian View

Well, I got an invite to the Joost Beta earlier this morning, and got to watch the pilot for Stella while getting ready for work! Unfortunately, that was this morning, before the onslaught of new users wanting content came in. Right now, no programs are working, and the Joost team has admitted that their central servers have stumbled off the blocks. Oops!

Still, I was quite pleased with the 20 minutes or so that I was able to poke around with the client system this morning. I can see some serious potential with this. Yes, the content is lacking a bit, but, from their blog entry earlier this week, they are planning on adding new content this week. I am definitely looking forward to the NHL vintage games! I do hope that they can do live broadcast of games, even if I have to pay $150 a year to subscribe to something like NHL Center Ice to be able to watch any game that is played!

Last time, I mentioned that Lafayette Utilities Systems should definitely look into this. I'm going to expand that to LUS should look into hosting some kind of "caching" server within the Fiber loop with Joost to provide free content top-quality service to Lafayette residents with fiber! Heck, they might be able to provide High-Definition content with the type of bandwidth available to the city. The next step would be to build some kind of set-top box, most likely after the planned Linux client is released, so that users can watch Joost content directly on their TVs.

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