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Neokast is currently looking for people to beta test their new and exciting software which is kind of a hush-hush deal with some insiders revealing what Neokast could mean for all of us. So picture this. How would you like to view broadcast like TV without sucking up the worlds bandwidth in the process?

Well that is basically what the folks at Neokast will be trying to offer to us, and it looks like they have the financial backing to pull this off as well.

Here is what Robert X. Cringley had to say about the first demo he used:
“Neokast presently operates as a .NET application, meaning it is limited for the moment to Windows computers. The player can operate as a stand-alone application or a browser plug-in. And as far as the user is concerned, connecting to a video stream is a matter of going to a web site and clicking on a link. The viewing experience is very much like cable or broadcast TV because with Neokast you aren’t initiating a video stream, you are joining a broadcast in progress. There are clever ways to use Neokast for video-on-demand, but right now the company is emphasizing its broadcast-like features.

The way the P2P components work is simple to describe but hard to accomplish. I watched a Neokast demo from my office in Charleston and the stream began playing in about two seconds, which is close to instant-on in the world of Internet video. If there is buffering happening, as there simply must be, it isn’t a very big buffer. Had there been no peers up and running other than mine, the video would have streamed straight from the server in Chicago, but with enough peers operating, the load on the originating server is several orders of magnitude less than for typical one-stream-per-user distribution.”

You can read the entire piece here.

Sign ups for the beta are larger than anticipated so be patient. I joined the program this morning I am really looking forward to see how well this semi-new technology functions in the wild. I will be reporting more about this in future posts.

Sign up to as a beta tester.

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