The first big differences between Jacked and solutions like those provided by Joost is that no download is required. Jacked is a RIA Webtop which was built on Flash and an OpenLaszlo framework. In addition, our widgets are vacant until they contextually synchronize with the live broadcast based upon meta data created in real-time by the Jacked TVTop(TM) platform. The TVTop is publishing content dynamically into each widget based upon broadcast events, key words, and context. This is driven by the Jacked SearchCasting(TM) engine. In the case of sports, the players and commentators are effectively the publishers of the widgets, More will be unveiled through the course of the year as Jacked deploys its Fancasting(TM) engine, enabling a more personalizable experience including user generated content. In the mean time, users can configure and save a dashboard of widgets as a tab for as many as 100 simultaneous games.

We launched with a 2-Screen sports product because of the size of the market which includes over 19mm fantasy sports fans than manage their leagues on their computers, 2-screen during games, and spend over a $1b a year according to the Fantasy Sports Association.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Sports_Trade_Association

Since launching with NBC Sports for Notre and NFL football, Jacked has also begun launching services with other partners including Versus http://versus.sports.jacked.com/sportstop/postgame.jsp
and Raycom Sports for the ACC http://www.theacc.com/ot/jacked.html. In the coming months, Jacked will be announcing deals with sports leagues, teams, and other broadcast partners that have also been integrated the experience into the live broadcasts. Jacked effectively brings the web to broadcast TV, creating a TV + Web product where the 2 screen becomes a command and control for contextual content, commerce, and communication.

Jacked is also deploying single screen experiences with partners like AMD and Gateway with more announcements to come: http://www.gateway.com/slamdunk

Thank you for the opportunity to respond. I also welcome any direct comments or questions at bryan@jacked.com.

http://dev.joost.com/docs/widgets/index.html

As for Joost making your PC crash is another matter :p.

I totally agree with the two screen content and its about the only way that p2p streaming services like Joost will be able to get on the TV is either via a game colsole like the Wii or Internet ready TVs within the next few years .P2P streaming still needs a fair bit of processing power and data storage to work properly.

I can see TV Manufactures putting a lightweight OS and a browser on a TV with networking , but I cant see them offering full versions of Vista or OSX on a TV.The only exception is HP who offer a Media Center TV but HP are a computer company not a consumer electronics company .