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9 Responses to “ Catholic Minute #11: ‘Joost’ Review ”

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   Chris Apr 21st, 2007 at 8:32 pm

   I was so excited when I got my invitation to join Joost (pronounced ‘Juiced’ - hard ‘J’), only to discover that you need a Mac with an Intel processor for it to work! I was totally bummed out. Your so-so review of it makes me feel a little bit better. Thanks.

   Chris

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   Mark M Apr 21st, 2007 at 9:40 pm

   Looks interesting, but I’m in the same boat as Chris — good old PPC Powerbook.

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   Mark Fleser Apr 22nd, 2007 at 1:35 am

   It’s betatastic too! On my iMac (highest spec 24″) it’s so slow it’s almost unusable! Like when I want to change channels the guide is really difficult to bring up and then when I click a button it takes a couple of seconds to respond. I agree about the quality but what do you expect for a free program that basically gives you free cable programming.

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   Katerina Apr 22nd, 2007 at 1:48 am

   Thanks for the info. Didn’t know it only worked on a MAC. Was actually hoping for an invitation as I have no TV at this time.

   Not sure if anyone else had this problem, but the sound for this one came only out of my left speaker.

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   Fr. Roderick Apr 22nd, 2007 at 7:36 am

   Katerina, as far as Macs go, it only works on Intel based Macs but it does work on regular PCs. As I say in the blogpost, there are audio problems in the download version of the episode. The YouTube version is ok, because it is in mono.

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   Eric Apr 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm

   Have to agree here. The idea is ofcourse very nice, but so far, the quality is sub par. Also the programs offered aren’t very interesting yet. Of the entire list of channels only 2 or 3 looked remotely interesting.

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   pat Apr 23rd, 2007 at 1:33 am

   I haven’t been very impressed with Joost. I found one or two things that I thought I might want to watch, but the quality was poor and just not worth it with so many other sources of better video.

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   Lawrence Apr 23rd, 2007 at 4:58 am

   I was going to try it but it’s by invitation only :(Fr. Roderick, do you mind send me an invitation to Joost Beta? Thanks a bunch!

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   Fr. Roderick Apr 23rd, 2007 at 8:23 am

   I’m sorry, but when I launch Joost on my PC, it tells me that I don’t have any invites to send out. No idea why. Perhaps because I wasn’t positive enough in my review?

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