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Om Malik over at GigaOM gives us a little peak inside The Venice Project, the latest from Skype and Kazaa creators Janus Friis and Niklas Sennström. The idea is to use broadband to stream TV using peer-to-peer technology.

I had heard from a lot of people who were lukewarm on the offering and were not impressed by the photo quality. I am not sure what happened, but those problems have been fixed. The visuals on a Lenovo T60 with a 15.2-inch screen were stunning and crisp. The streams came through without a problem and there was very little jitter. Still, no point hooking it up to a big screen TV… just yet! There isn’t LIVE TV content on the service right now and most of what is there consists of meager offerings streaming off the Venice Project servers. So you can’t truly judge how good this service will be when it comes to “live” broadcasts just yet.

Head over to GigaOM for more, and screenshots.

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