Re: [DDN] Interactive TV: What will Joost™ offer that Democracy Player doesn't already?

2007-01-29 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Andy Thank you for all the info about Joost/Venice. Sure, interacting with other users while watching TV might be useful, say, if a work group studies/edits a video together at distance - but then can't they use a chat in another window? Oh well, I guess it's a question of generation - mayb

Re: [DDN] Interactive TV: What will Joost™ offer that Democracy Player doesn't already?

2007-01-26 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi Claude, I'm beta testing Joost/Venice on my PC at work, and I'm finding it fascinating. Joost and Democracy Player have very different user experiences. Democracy feels like a player - a device that sits on your desktop with lots of buttons and the like, not unlike iTunes. Joost feels very diff

[DDN] Interactive TV: What will Joost™ offer that Democracy Player doesn't already?

2007-01-26 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi All OK, I'm not a Joost™ http://www.joost.com beta-tester. I could get an invite from friends who are, but I use a Mac, and Joost™ is Windows-only so far. Democracy http://www.getdemocracy.com already works with Windows, Linux and Mac. So one of these friends showed me how Joost™ works, br