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In my annual prections (!) for the No Som Perfectes radio show from RAC1 station, I stated that having been 2006 the year of the Video, or better said the year of YouTube, it was only natural that 2007 be the year of the IP TV.

I admit that I’m not going to make a living out of predicting the future. With iTV (now AppleTV) on its way, Vilaweb.com (the catalan online news service) creating Vilaweb.tv and providing TV on demand, and the folks from Skype and Kazaa creating p2p TV with their Venice Project, predicting the coming of age of IP TV was a sure bet (you have to admit that the Skype team has some experience on setting online trends that become industry trends).

I saw a beta testing of the Venice Project on Vilaweb.tv and this closed the circle: I was learning about IP TV on IP TV.

I rushed to the Venice Project website but they no longer accepted beta testers. You had to get in through invitation.

But not anymore. Today code name Project Venice changed into Joost and they’re now accepting beta testers. The interface looked quite innovative and the quality good enough to watch on a big plasma screen. Let’s hope we don’t get the same contents as in analog TV.