It's hard to review a film these days without talking about how you saw it. Well, I'm beta testing Joost and I must say, this first pass at internet tv is interesting. It has the pretty commercial fare you might expect, lots of commercials and top 40 music videos. But these things always have some piece of the long tail in their grips and sure enough, there are a few interesting movies for free in there. Paramount Pictures has a channel in there and The Little Prince is in there.
Cool. I've always wanted to see it. If I don't fall asleep, I'll sit here and watch it. It streams pretty well, with just a few hiccups. Looks like HP has something to do with it all. The video quality is fantastic, but it does stall now and again. I suspect it is interrupting itself loading a commercial (which are discrete and certainly no worse than the thing on tv. I'd say it's generally not so distracting. Otherwise, the experience is rather pleasant.
I look forward to evaluating the Democracy player soon and seeing what it affords as well.
My first impression suggests that Joost is on to something and is likely to be a really cool thing if everyone plays nice.