It’s been well over a year since DivX and Joost discussed the possibility of bringing Joost content to the television. And suddenly, with no fanfare at all, a DivX Connected plug-in has appeared.
After Davis tipped me off early this morning, I set up my loaner D-Link DSM-330 to check it out. The initial build only displayed the “Popular Videos Feed” – consisting of just a couple full length features and several clips of scantily clad women. However, within the last few hours the app has been updated to link your personalized Joost favorites… should you be be looking for a more diverse selection of content.
It’s not clear if this service is DivX or Joost sanctioned, and Davis’ inquiries to Joost PR have gone unanswered. Regardless, I assume they developers have taken advantage of Joost’s new Flash platform and DivX’s relatively new Flash scraping mechanism to enable playback via PC proxy.
