Fred’s Notes

Well, well. Got a brand new invite for beta testing Joost (once called The Venice Project), the new p2p tv project from the same guys who builded Skype. Oh, happiness! About the requirements, there are XP binaries only and your broadband connection must be billed on a flat-fee price, or else, well, big surprises may arise at the end of the month:

Hardware

The Joost™ software should be capable of running on computer systems that are up to three years old. The minimum hardware requirements are:

* Pentium 4 processor, 1GHz
* 512Mb or more RAM.
* A modern video card with DirectX support and at least 32Mb of VRAM.
* About 500 MB free disk space; The Joost™ software is a 10 MB download, expanding to 30-35 MB on disk. The remainder is used as a cache.

Internet connection

* Broadband/ADSL (1Mbit/s downstream, 512Kbit/s upstream recommended, although lower speeds may well work)
* 1 hour of viewing is 320 Megabytes downloaded and 105 Megabytes uploaded, which means that it will exhaust a 1 Gigabyte cap in 10 hours

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 11:49 pm and is filed under Internet.