Time to get "Joost"

Today I received my beta tester cap for the new broadband IPTV product called Joost. It is an interesting new delivery model for online video content. This content comes from both big name studios as well as some well known vid-casts. It is still in beta and the time I've had to check it out today does show that it is still a work in progress. I don't know if it is a limitation of being a beta tester but no matter what channel I selected or show I tried to watch, I would get about half way through a show and it would throw up an error, sorry this channel is temporarily unavailable and the stream would just stop. Checking out the forums on the joost.com website, this seems to be common with this latest version of the client software. This is the last big push from them for beta testing and maybe they stretched themselves too thin. I will give it a few more days to get a good feel for it, but so far it has potential. Being someone who spends a lot of time on the computer for work related things, it gives me another outlet for entertainment. I now have Joost, Netflix Watch it Now and my podcasts that I watch on the Democracy player. This really is the new way to get the programming that we want. The AppleTV device seems a little early but if content keeps getting better like it has and it becomes something we can stream directly to the tv instead of having to get the content out of our iTunes downloads, it could become a real killer app device.
One comment about the Joost client, especially on windows, when you want to stop streaming the data, you have to completely close the client. If you only minmize it or put it into standby mode, it is still actively pushing bits across the network. Be careful that you are not in danger of getting cut off from a bad ISP like Comcast as seen here.