What shows does Warner Brothers make? Anyone know?

I think you're totally right on everything except for the ads. Most network shows are provided to the consumer for no cost. Of course, the networks make money by charging advertisers outrageous amounts for 30 seconds of airtime.

I'm totally willing to put up with a few seconds of ads for on-demand entertainment. But you're right, the limited content is a downer.

There needs to be a way to get this onto xbox 360. FOR FREE, microsoft.

@lpranal:

wishful thinking.

@lpranal: I second the motion.

You are being a 'Debbie Downer' (whatever that is). If you don't like the FREE service, don't use it. For the rest of us, it's a FREE service, so we don't winge about it. As for the ads, what website doesn't have ads all over it these days? Last time I checked, the tv shows on NBC had about 18 minutes of ads per hour on it. How many minutes on hulu.com? The end.

I wasn't aware there were ads on it. I don't recall seeing any, myself.

I use it all the time, and I don't see why you keep putting it down when every time it's mentioned TONS of people in the comments say they use it all the time. Obviously people are using it and it's catching on.

Maybe they could post full episodes, but make them last month's or something.

We're in March, so they could upload complete February episodes, and come the end of march, take those out and upload the March episodes

@lpranal: @Ledsled: Im in on this one to let someone make a poll we can send to MS/Hulu

The Times pointed out that some executives are looking to use Hulu as a DVD promotional tool. Hulu will fail the media companies if they insist on using Hulu as a promotional tool.

I've been using Hulu for months as a beta user. After not watching the Office for a few seasons, I watched season 2 and 3 on Netflix on demand. But netflix didn't have season 4, the current season, so I turned to Hulu. Hulu only had two or three of the most recent episodes from Season 4, not the conclusion to season 3's cliff hanger episode, or any of the others in between. I didn't want to watch out of order, so instead I found the episodes from some streaming Japanese site. Sure, there were Japanese subtitles, but that didn't bother me, and I was able to watch Season 4 on my schedule. NBC lost potential revenue by sending me to some other website, but I still prevailed.

I hope they get some Adult Swim shows on it. Some anime would be sweet too.

I have been using Hulu for a while as a beta member as well and I have loved it. Yes the content of new shows is limited but they have some great older shows with full seasons. I think it will catch on and do very well causing more shows and episodes to be uploaded. I get on hulu at work when the work has slowed down and I am waiting on a call (I work at a call center help desk) and I don't see any of the commercials which is nice. I mean how can a website that has Weird Science and The Jerk on it be bad? It can't.

@tinshaker: First of all, he might be debbie downer here but he's right. Marketing wise they're kinda shooting themselves in the butt if they expect people to make it the place they look when they want to watch something. People that are actually looking to watch certain things rather than just to browse are going to still turn to bit torrent and other ways to download things. He's not trying to say the idea isn't great, he's just saying that the way they're marketing it sucks. I for one would design it so that you could find what you wanted to watch, still have the adds, (in order to support it) and make it THE place to go to watch your favorite shows when you miss the air date. Nice work frucci.

DUDE, NHL RECAPS? FUCK YES.

I only hope that that means they'll be playing full games soon. I catch what I can on Hockey Night in Canada and on NBC on Sundays but there's so many games I'm missing and what with my favorite team being Calgary and me living in Buffalo, well... I don't get to see much of my favorite team. :|

@MIKEAWESOME: And now that I feel like a tool for posting before reading the whole post, I definitely agree with you Adam, but my question is is this the last of the content updates we'll see? Judging by the fact that they're adding these other broadcasts and with it opening to the public tomorrow I'd assume that they'd want to add more features to it to entice more people to watch.

I guess we can't really tell either way yet, and the big-wig corporations have done much stupider things than launch an internet 'TV' service with little content to watch.

I mean, if I stepped into their shoes I would do something like feature one or two different seasons of different shows a week. So you might get all of Season 2 of BSG one week alongside, say, 30 Rock Season 1. Or maybe Seasons 1 & 2 of BSG the week or so before the premier of the new season. I kind of figured that type of marketing was something that was pretty simple to come up with because it not only supports their broadcast episodes, it also helps draw users in with enough content to whet their appetite.

@Bamboo:
Heard of the channel the WB? That's Warner Brothers. It's now the CW and still owned by Warner Brothers.

Re: the 'Network Closure' section on The WB Wikipedia Page

@MIKEAWESOME: Don't have DirecTv w/ NHL Center Ice? As a Penguins fan living in Baltimore, MD, I can't live without it. I've probably seen 60 of the 70 games on NHL CI (and listened to the rest online). Hockey in HD is the best - besides the Disocovery Channel in HD, of course.

1. I have been using Hulu since day 1 for Beta testers and can say, honestly, the commercials aren't bad. During each commercial break there is only 1 commercial,or a 5 second tag to remind you that oyu're at the Hulu website, and on SOME of the shows, there are none. I would seuggest checking out Fox.com's version of video on demand if you want to see what you should expect.

2. I like their media player. It's simple, and with the shows being free and, again, a large number of them not showing commercials, I have gotten a LOT of people interested in Hulu and they will be happy to hear that it is available to the masses.

@tinshaker:
You can suck my dick with that idiot logic.

@Kered: Now that you've been banned, you'll have plenty of time to try sucking your own dick. C YA! Or not.

I realize it's on Joost also, but I've been watching the Dana Carvey Show on hulu and enjoying it, along with American Dad and Weird Science. Nice player, ads aren't annoying, though I could do without the odd pauses. Might just be my computer though.

Gotta tell ya, I've been using Hulu since it's early days of "Private Beta". The freaking thing is nice. And, I haven't purchased a television show from iTunes since. (Of course, i live in LA, where downloading a show on your iPod means nothing: There's no decent public transportation.)

Frankly, I just watch the shows that I don't care enough to record on my DV-R. And that's surprisingly a lot.

Also, the ads totally don't bother me. The Hulu Folks did try putting ads below the viewing screen, but that was a bust and went away very quickly. I don't expect the content to be free. A 30 second ad here and there is more than enough when nothing is coming directly out of my pocket. Heck, if iTunes allowed people to download shows with a short ad here and there, it may be more successful - instead of charging them $1.99.

There are things that still need to be adjusted with Hulu, though. For example, cutting a selection of a show to embed on a website is a little tough to do. And their movies selection is pathetic with ads in awkward places. But, overall, it's probably the best online viewing of good content (legally) online.

I can haz kanada compatible version? =[

Hopefully as it's popularity grows they will get more episodes of older & newer shows.
I loved the fact that I can stream all the old shows I grew up with and some that were just a bit before.
During the writers strike I had awesome tv watching episodes in order of SWAT, Adam-12, WKRP and loads of other shows.

As long as they continue to add content and keep the commercials to approx. the rate they have now, I could see myself subscribing to it for a monthly fee.

It's certainly better than 95% of the craptastic channels already on my satellite service.

The beta isn't bad I watched me some Conan the Barbarian! What it needs is media center integration. I would have used it a lot more if I could have got at it though my 360 extender.