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Joost has HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords” first episode of new season
By April MacIntyre Dec 23, 2008, 4:10 GMT
HBO\'s Flight of the Conchords follows the trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band from New Zealand as they try to make a name for themselves in their adopted home of New York City. The band is made up of Bret McKenzie on guitar and vocals, and Jemaine Clement on guitar and vocals. Bret and Jemaine have moved to New York in the hope of forging a successful music ...more
The New Zealand music-comedy duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie star in the second season of HBO’s Emmy-nominated comedy series “Flight of the Conchords” starting Sunday, January 18th at 10p.m. (ET/PT).
Transplanted New Zealanders Jemaine and Bret live in New York City’s Lower East Side and split their time between seeking venues where they can perform and courting women.
The first episode of the Conchords' second season aired exclusively last week on Funny or Die, a comedy website managed by comedian and film star Will Ferrell.
It finds our friends Bret and Jemaine at a crossroads after ditching their nitwit manager, Murray, who has found success with a rival novelty group, the Crazy Dogs.
Watch the entire first episode on Joost now
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Bob WintersDec 25th, 2008 - 07:18:46
Download video & high bandwidth streaming video sucks!!!
Download set top boxes and download portable players ( ie Blockbuster, Sling box, XBOX 360, Apple TV, VUDU, Hulu, PS3, Boxee, Silverlight, joost ) and high bandwidth streaming video ( ie Netflix ) are things of the past, only to be replaced by the technology used by service providers such as MyTVPAL ( www.mytvpal.com ).
Service providers like MyTVPAL ( www.mytvpal.com ) offer 1080p instant blu-ray streaming video on demand and live tv over PC Player, set top box, and I think they will have a portable device out soon.
Keep in mind also that P2P is on the way out because it uses to much bandwidth, both up and down, and is unstable. I?m refering to service providers such as VUDU ( a one trick pony ) and Joost, who latest foray into portable video on demand on the itouch / iphone is freezing, buffering, and providing a horrible user experience even on my 6mbps connection.
Streaming video is a great addition for live tv an video on demand, but at the end of the day only those technology companies like Matrixstream ( www.matrixstream.com ) will be able to support the best quality over the best effort public internet when doing a triple play ( set top box, PC Player, and portable device ) because currently where Netflix requires 8mbps for 720p streaming, MyTVPAL ( www.mytvpal.com ) can support 720p streaming a 3mbps and 1080p blu-ray streaming at 6mbps.
Keep the above in mind when considering the average person today in the United States and Canada has between 1.5 - 3.0Mbps. So While MyTVPAL ( www.mytvpal.com ) can service the majority of broadband users today in the United States and Canada in both 720p and 1080p today it will be years before Netflix can service a fraction of the broadband population in high definition instant video streaming.
At the end of the Day service providers such as Netflix and Blockbuster will have evolve to provide a service like MyTVPAL or suffer the consequences of not providing low bandwidth, instant playing, 1080p blu-ray high definition platform that we?ve come to expect from MyTVPAL ( www.mytvpal.com ) on PC Player, set top box, and soon I would imagine, portable player.
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