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Archive for May 17th, 2007

Joox

Posted by Peter on May 17th, 2007

Well watching CommandN, I heard about an interesting new site on the tubes. Joox takes the Youtube idea to a new level, although probably not in a legal manner. Joox streams movies and tv shows on their site, and allows you to download them as .divx files.

The Office on Joox

The site features episodes of many popular TV shows like Family Guy, 24, and The Office, as well as movies like Die Hard, American Pie and Dodgeball. They also have some documentaries, but I didn’t recognize any of the titles.

Season 6, Episode 21 of 24 on Joox

The quality of the videos is very good, but they can take a long time to load depending on the size of the video and your internet connection. They also seem to take a lot of processor power to load and buffer, as Safari crashed a couple of times on me as I was trying to load a couple of videos and write this post.

Star Wars: Episode 3 on Joox

Despite the fact that this is clearly illegal, it gives you the chance to catch up on TV shows and movies you’ve missed, without having to worry about downloading them. And if you do want to download them, this can serve as an alternative to BitTorrent.