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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

TV on your PC

















Another rainy Sunday afternoon? the best thing you can is fire up your PC and watch a TV show or a movie, but wait how do you get the content?


Hello guys, I've just read a nice review of Joost, Hulu, and Miro over at Gizmodo.
and yeah all the three are totally free.

All of them of course are pushing TV content over into the computer, with the goal of making TV shows available on the web.
Persoanlly I like Joost but it has lots of unresolved issues that's just annoying making it a bit frustrating watching shows.

The Contenders:
Hulu: NBC Universal/News Corp.'s mutant is a sandbox-y YouTube for their properties. Joost: Streaming P2P service from Kazaa/Skype founders that wants oh so badly to be real TV. It's got deals with Viacom and other name players—News Corp.'s rumored to be at the table as well. Miro: Open-source Cory Doctorow-anointed Joost-slayer. You download, rather than stream. It uses RSS-based channels and BitTorrent for its P2P workings.

Bottom line: No matter what service you pick, you won't find everything you want, thanks in part to corporate hang-ups and in part to the primitiveness of these early stages. They're maddeningly incomplete, like a crappy library in a rural town.

Joost is probably your best bet in terms of quantity and quality, with Miro working better if you want a ton of new programming but don't care about corporate quality. And if you want
Battlestar, well, the choice will be made for you.

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