Archive for: November 25, 2007

It's with a somewhat heavy heart that I uninstalled Joost and the Leaf Networks application on Sunday night. Both hold great promise, but fatal flaws and a better product from a competitor will keep both off my machine for now.

We've had some good conversations with the CEO of Joost, and DL.TV's agreement to appear on the service certainly alleviates some of the content problems.

But time and again, when I want to surf the Web for content, I turn to Hulu, the NBC/Fox content site I've been playing around with since just before Halloween. For example, I had a few episodes of Heroes queued up to watch (note to the writers: when you start playing around too much with the timeline, bad things happen, creatively). The problem is that I had accidentally recorded too much a few weeks ago and my Cox PVR choked on downloading new content and discarded all my scheduled "season passes".

So tonight, I logged on to Hulu, hooked my laptop up to the TV via the S-video connection, and my wife and I got caught up. Sure, I prefer my PVR. But Hulu provided adequate video, no skips, and brief 15-second commercials at the appropriate spots. Yes, I know writing a supportive post will (slightly) help Hulu's sales department sign up more ad spots, but the point is is that it works.

By comparison, Joost is the 85 other channels that I skip past.

I really wanted to like Leaf, which allows users not only to share devices across the Internet, but networks as well. It's not quite a VPN, but it does allow users ...

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Just considering Black Friday is (thankfully) done doesn’t mean our giveaways are. Below are the six gadgets still open for entry until later tonight (more specifically, Sunday the 25th at 11:59PM ET). Good luck!

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