Justin TV

Justin TV is a video hosting website dedicated to letting users share their online videos while interacting via chat and live video. The service is powered by a Python Media Server, which allows thousands of online simultaneous viewings of the same video.Official Site: About Us

Justin TV first began as an extremely small network with just one person broadcasting, Justin Kan. Kan wore a webcam 24/7 and streamed all of his content starting March 19, 2007. His website quickly grew media attention, which led to the expansion of his website with more people broadcasting.

Justin TV has simplified the way people can broadcast their own live channel online. The only requirements that one needs to broadcast is a Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X compatible computer with Internet capability, with at least a 100KBps upload speed. A webcam or a camcorder in also required in order to record the live video. The most recent version of Adobe Flash Player is also needed to record live video.

After getting all of the requirements, anyone can sign up for an account at the Justin TV website. At this point, anyone can link up their live recording video to their account and broadcast their channel online.

The success of Justin TV has encouraged the creation of similar live video websites. Ustream, for example, is nearly identical to Justin TV in that people can create their own live channels and stream video directly from a webcam.http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/live/sports

Meanwhile, there are also websites that offer links to watch certain TV channels on the Internet. Places like Channel Surfing will have links that stream TV channels that customers without cable or premium packages may not otherwise get.http://www.channelsurfing.net/ The channel is also popular for streaming out-of-market sports games.

Justin TV has also been the subject of many pranks, including some by its registered users. For example, Kan had to make his phone number private after numerous people would use it for pranks, such as a prank call to the fire department. Kan was forced to change his number and make it private.