Cool, thanks for the tip!

Thanks for sharing, interesting to hear about your experience with it. I agree that at this time, the quality isn’t really ready for prime time.

Ah, good.

Patrik,

Sure, one invitation left, Please just donate to one of the charities linked from this web page, and I’ll send it to you.

Good to see that someone share my opinion.

Lei,

I definitely understand your problems, and it is very good to get input from somewhere where I don’t know how it works.

Andy,

Yes, at the time it is fairly limited.

Steve,

Absolutely, regional alienation is the path to failure. Good to see you, BTW; it’s been some time since you last commented!

Deborah,

Thanks for the donation, it was very appreciated! I sent an invite to you.

David,

Well, it just feels a bit weird, to be honest. And “El Shamar” is just hilarious!

Kenneth,

Wow, that’s a lot of questions!
The quality is so-so, to be honest. I hope it will get better.

It is streaming only.

Since it’s streaming it automatically downloads the latest episodes.

The ads are placed within the videos, or rather from, what I’ve seen, at the beggining (just as a regular TV commercial).

ANd yes, we love semantics!

Is it streaming only? That would be a big no for me. And there isn’t some stream manager, is there? You would have to have a browser window/tab open to load each video? Annoying.

I would have to be able to download and store the video on my hard drive, so that I can easily move it to an other computer — possibly one that isn’t connected to the internet.

Is there a show subscription function that downloads new episodes for you right away when they are available?

Where are these ads placed? Before/after or are there breaks for them? I will never ever watch anything that breaks if I can get the same without too much trouble without breaks.

At the moment tvrss.net and µTorrent works magic. New episodes downloaded and ready for viewing in nice quality before I wake up — or go to sleep in the morning.

I don’t expect anyone to come close with a legal option any time soon. Too many control freaks in control!
I think there would have to be a show that reaches the magnitude of Heroes, 24, Lost or such by the means of global distribution through a bittorrent like technique before anyone can get out of the grip of the USA like distributors.

And — hehe — “All the content is “free”, so to speak, in the sense that it is only ad-sponsored.”
Free as in free of charge is called gratis in english too — in quite a few languages, actually.
It’s all semantics.. But we like semantics, don’t we?

Does that make you and your European readers wince? Certainly seems made for all us cloth-eared Australians. (You wouldn’t believe the mangling of foreign names by a Channel 9 commentator on the TV broadcast of the recent Swimming World Championships. For example, Alshammar became “El Shamar”. I was most surprised to see that the swimmer was from Sweden, not a Middle Eastern country!)

I heard a report about this on the radio this morning and thought Joost must be spelled that way. I was going to type that into my browser when I read your post. I wouldn’t have got very far!

Joost looks interesting, and I might take you up on the beta, except next week is “Turn off TV” week. Our household is already planning activities sans TV. Not sure how I would fit it in this week.

P.S. I donated yesterday to WWF. Hope others decide to join in!

I mean, if someone really wants to see the latest episodes of any popular TV show, they’ve only got to look to P2P or torrent and then the companies get nothing lol?

Besides, poor internet connection and geographical position are two other limitations. I’ve tried Joost, it has a better UI than the other P2P TV services I’ve used before. However, I find there are few channels I can watch and the lag makes a comfortable watching into a terrible experience.