Show variety and image quality: You've probably never heard of most of the "networks" on Joost. The Fight Network is sure to be a favorite of Eugene. Are you ready to go all in on Poker Heaven.TV? The Boom Chicago channel (based in Amsterdam, not in Chicago) will appeal to anyone who's a fan of sketch comedy. There's also the Much Hot & Wet channel, which features...well, you can figure it out. I admit, I lost 60 seconds of my life watching a MH&W show that featured swimsuit-clad men and women in an ice cream eating contest.

Internet TV is the the new "boob tube."

Notice the image quality - yuck. The image quality throughout Joost varies. According to the Joost Web site, videos are encoded using CoreCodec's CoreAVC H.264 encoder, though it seems video is encoded at different image quality settings. Here's a shot below of "Stella," a show on Comedy Central. Better than MH&W, but still quite pixelated.

I'm singing in the jaggies, just singing in the jaggies.

Here's a shot below of MTV's "Laguna Beach." That's near TV quality.

Lookin' good.

The introductory video logo to National Geographic's "Last Stand of The Great Bear" was a pixelated mess. But the actual show below was visually pleasing. Too bad it lagged like crazy.

This would make a nice desktop image.

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