Venice goes Joost – Future of TV has arrived
[photopress:359258197_ed74f459c1_t_d.jpg,full,left] Online (IP) TV is here! The Venice Project is coming out of the shadows and preps it’s first release, to offer P2P (peer-to-peer) IP-TV straight to your computer. The project started by former Kazaa and Skype brains Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, is probably one of the hottest start-ups since the dot-com boom/bust era.
To cut a long and interesting story short, people will be able to enjoy high quality TV content on their computers using established P2P technologies (like those of Kazaa, Limewire, etc and Skype) where users interconnect to share data quickly. Joost, as the project is now officially known, has already got backing from two major TV players in Endemol (producers of “Who wants to be a millionaire”, “Big Brother” and most of the shows on TV these days) as well as Warner Music.
I suggest you read more about it on their blog or on The Register. Also, why not give it a whirl to see it for yourself and register as a beta-tester? If you are a content producer it might be a good idea to talk to them now while they are still in beta and are looking for fresh new content too! Enjoy… .
Links:
- Joost Blog
- The Register article on Joost
- DV Guru post on Joost
blog.myspace.com/axelsegebrecht says:
January 18th, 2007 at 20:44
[...] The future of TV is here! Read all about it in my latest blog post. The project formerly known as Venice has renamed itself to Joost, launches beta and signs up big-wigs Endemol and Warner Music to bring interactive IP TV to your computer screens. [...]