Joost has discontinued support for the downloadable client. The project has moved from a downloadable to a web-based application.


Joost is a new way for you to watch TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

You get great internet features too, such as search, chat and instant messaging, built right into Joost - so you find shows quickly and talk to your friends while you're watching them. And with no schedules to worry about, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you like - as often as you want. Joost is completely free and works with most modern personal computers and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection.

Here are some key features of "Joost":

Free TV, straight to your PC
￭ Free to watch, anywhere in the world
￭ Easy to use, just like regular TV
￭ No special hardware needed - just a PC or Intel-based Mac and a broadband connection

TV, the way you like it
￭ Hundreds of shows from your favourite channels
￭ Full-screen, high-quality pictures and sound
￭ No fixed schedules - watch what you like, when you like, as often as you want

Be part of the show
￭ Chat with friends and other fans while you watch
￭ You're the critic - rate and debate the shows you love and hate
￭ Build your own playlists and channels


Requirements:

￭ Pentium 4 processor, 1GHz
￭ 512Mb or more RAM
￭ A modern video card with DirectX support and at least 32Mb of VRAM
￭ About 500 MB free disk space
￭ The Joost software is a 10 MB download, expanding to 30-35 MB on disk. The remainder is used as a cache
￭ Broadband/ADSL (1Mbit/s downstream, 512Kbit/s upstream recommended, although lower speeds may well work)
￭ 1 hour of viewing is 320 Megabytes downloaded and 105 Megabytes uploaded, which means that a 1 Gb cap will be exhausted in about 10 hours


Limitations:

￭ For now, Joost access is invitation-based only! You cannot enjoy Joost if you do not have an invitation to join the program's testing team.

Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:

· Joost and the Joost Software will, and will permit third parties to, display advertising and other information within the interface of the Joost Software and/or in connection with the display of content and programming. Joost or the Joost Software serves, and permits third parties to serve, advertisements within or adjacent to the content and programming delivered to you by the Joost Software