October 2, 2007

Blognation reviews Joost, TIOTI and TestCardTV

1471825602_852cd55070.jpg Great review by Sam Sethi for Blognation of Joost, TIOTI, and TestCardTV. What clearly differs is the content sourcing and the related commercial models.

"Joost is of course the more famous of the three with over 1.3m people having already tried it out since it launched. Compared to a mere 18,000 people who have tried TIOTI. TestCard.TV is officially launching today at the MashupDEMO event in London, so it has no traffic numbers to speak off.

... All three are therefore trying to tap into this changing market by offering “on-demand” social TV which enables you to watch, share and discover programs.

So is there anything to watch? Sethi decided to see what on demand programs he could find using Joost, TestCard.TV and TIOTI:

Joost
... The quality of the content hasn’t changed much even though it now has 15,000+ TV shows and 250+ Channels of licensed content. Pretty dull repeat stuff, the same sort of thing you find on remote Sky Channels which no one ever watches but the cat.

Tioti
So could TIOTI do any better? ... The content is sourced and aggregated from around the web and although not licensed it is more compelling and in-line with the sort of programs I would want to watch, although the playback quality is a little poor.

Testcard.TV
This is the newest site and although the UI is a little confusing on first site, once you see the original testcard you begin to understand the colour scheme. I have to say I preferred this site for the very rich and compelling content. The other thing I noticed was how quick the content played through and the quality was good enough for me to watch full screen on a 21″ LCD monitor."

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