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What are the major, general-purpose livestreaming options now? Ustream? Google Hangouts? What else?

I've never tried it myself, but I believe you can livestream on youtube.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en

When I tried it it worked pretty well, except the stream lagged really far behind. It was usually a couple minutes behind live for me

Twitch can be 30 seconds to a minute behind so these days having extensive difference between the broadcaster and viewers seems common, sadly.

What other sites offer similar TV streams like JTV did?

I have used JTV for marathon watching of so many popular TV shows for the past five years.

I may not really be watching, but when working on your latest start-up or idea it was always good to be watching marathons of my favorite show in the background.

Why is this being downvoted? This is how I used JTV for the past five years and I'm sure tons of others here did too.

People were saying this is why JTV was shut down, rampant copyright infringement.

Probably, but it was an amazing site due to all the marathon copyrighted TV shows you can just go and tune into.

Where am I supposed to get a similar service now? I'll never pay for cable TV again!

You should still pay for the content you consume. This is why these streaming sites get shut down so quickly. Watching a stream is no different than torrenting it or other means of infringing. You're watching a TV show without the rights holders getting any money. If you don't want the rights holders to get any of your money (whether it's because you cannot afford to pay, or do not want to pay), you simply should not watch the show, not find a free way around the system.

Well where can I watch and pay for a JTV like service on the INternet.

Answer you can not and copyright does not want to disrupt their horrible cable TV business model.

JTV was awesome and will be sorely missed! Aereo too and hey I paid for that.

This is also what I used it for, watching Star Trek TNG streams while waiting for software to compile with General Grin and other custom comedy segments the channel operators made between eps. The whole point was socialTV where you could lol about how ridiculous some of the characters were with other fans in chat. The ancient aliens channel was also comedy gold, his hair gets bigger with every season.

DId anybody try this? Not a bad catch. "Goodbye to Justin.tv, Welcome to TwitCasting.tv" http://twitcasting.tv/?justin=1

Camarades.com is back in business and will remain alive as long as I can support it. It's older than justin.tv by a long shot and I don't have any intention of shutting it down. Acquisitions, it is safe to say, are not in the cards.

YouNow and Tinychat are the ones left that I know about. BlogTV was big but closed down and was acquired by YouNow.

I'm working on a general-purpose streaming site, but with a twist in how broadcasting works. Not quite enough for a 'Show HN' yet however.

Would be interested in hearing more about your project. Couldn't find any contact info for you, my email is in my profile. I do a lot of streaming work, and enjoy talking shop.

There's also http://livestream.com

Twitch.tv (justin.tv's parent company) is one even though its gaming focused. People stream non-gaming stuff (including dev-streams) quite often.

Actually, on Twitch you can only stream gaming related content. It does include programming, but only if you are programming a game (or related tool or such).

At one time I had good luck with a streaming app called Bambuser. I switched from Ustream because the latter had issues (at the time) dealing with poor connectivity.

Self hosted RTP stream?

Spreecast (www.spreecast.com)

http://kageshi.com

You can do livestreaming on YouTube.

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