Joost, Babelgum, Zattoo's contrast and analyse

Joost:

Joost is beta test phase now, The original name is "Venice Project", he compatible almost all of the stream's major types. He is P2P tech too, can delivery the encrypted data stream; can adjust the bitrate to match your bandwidth. Joost's another point is allow you upload/download your content by yourself.
Presently，Joost is not very big/public, but the content is very good feeling in some portion. And his funder(Friis and Zennstrom) also positive contact with major media company.
Joost's content is very vivid, but also pool. He public 23 channels, include some business channel, but one of them can be view finity. He have some music channel and plan to add Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Diddy Channel, Atlantic Street and so on. Joost's user interface is different with common. It default by the maximum size on your desktop when you run it, and the button is showed when mouse move to anywhere on your screen. His control is very easily：play, pause, fast on and volumn control. you also can easy to change your current channel or switch to another program. Joost also provide the search box, allow users to search the specified program to watchl.
Joost's channel browse is very easily, can be pulled or extended. Users can browse the specified program content and select which want to download. The most different of Joost is gadget, It's also distinguish things into others. The gadgets provide more and more feature and idea on the Joost, include instant information, real time broadcast, billbroad, chat, feedback, clock and so on.

Babel Gum

It is another powerful iptv programming. The funder is Silvio Scaglia(He is very famous in italy) Of course, He is not popular as Joost. He has office in 4 country.
Now, Babel Gum's content is some pool, only have 9 channels and the most of them is avocation or free. Babel Gum has a news channel, mainly to provide U.N.S. Other way, it has comic channel and blog channel(? video blog?). Babel Gum try to attract CP(content provider) to join in, hold out "Babel Gum is satisfactional platform of CP's", and It's also avocation content's. But it can't attract the major media company.

ZATTOO

Be compared with above two, ZATTOO is defferent on developing the iptv's scope. It's only public in Switzerland. It's seemed more like a real broadcasting service.
Zattoo have very vivid contents about 40 channels. Zattoo plan to subscribe the protocol with the CP and extand the business to more country. Zattoo's content is the most provided by BBC, CNN, Canale 5, Viva and Italia 1.
Zattoo's ui is very simple, common and more look like as Windows/Mac's software. Because Zattoo is provide the TV Program actually, so not to provide the video controller. channel bwroser is at the side of the program, easy like others and control with facility.
At present, It hard to decide who is winner. Joost has the best tech, but Babelgum's service is well so. Zattoo has the best of contents. IPTV's macket is more and more flourish, and the new company is pop also.
Let's keep looking...