Hulu

ZeeVee: One Box to Broadcast PC's HD Video All Over the House

Today, a startup called ZeeVee is launching the ZvBox, a three-part plan for getting all the good HD video content from your PC out to all the TVs in the house:
• The box itself converts the video from the PC's VGA port into a high-def channel and sends it out to your home's coax cable network.
• A PC app acts as a launcher for all the good PC-based internet video clients, like Hulu, Joost and even Microsoft's own Media Center.
• The remote controls not just your TV, but the app on the PC too, giving you decent control over the otherwise PC-locked experience. More »

7:00 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,504 views, 13 comments

Latest by dkoemans: to answer your question, this is a remarkable price and bit of technology, at least at this stage. I know people that are home installers on high end whole house solutions and this nut has just been about impossible to more »

warner bros.

Watch Full Episodes of Friends, Scooby Doo and The Batman Online for Free

Warner Bros. is jumping into the online video arena next month with a pair of sites, thewb.com and kidswb.com, which will show full episodes of its biggest series, like Friends and Smallville on the former, and stuff like Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Batman (hopefully Paul Dini's brilliant and amazing original animated series, not The Mediocre Batman) on the latter. It'd probably have made more sense for them to join Hulu, but Warner's probably not keen on splitting the ad dollars. If there's enough content, it could become a real destination, but we're guessing you'll still have to go to YouTube for "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves." [Yahoo]

3:17 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By matt buchanan
7,966 views, 14 comments

Latest by Worf: Is this some US only thing again? Quit tempting the rest of the world with your legal video options while we have ot use BitTorrent to grab our shows! more »

internet

10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth But P2P No Longer to Blame

The most consistent rationale for ISPs to throttle p2p applications or charge by the byte is that a small minority of users drain a vastly disproportionate amount of bandwidth, like the planet-raping aliens in Independence Day. Om Malik pulls a few of these numbers out of Arbor Networks' CTO, who develops all the traffic management tools your ISP probably uses, so while there's a conflict of interest (portents of internet doom sell more stuff) they have the data. Ten percent of subscribers consume 80 percent of bandwidth, a super-leeching 0.5 percent swallow 40 percent of bandwidth, and the rest like your mom, 80 percent, sip less than 10 percent. But p2p isn't the culprit. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By matt buchanan
52,355 views, 58 comments

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rumor

Hulu Video Service Going Mobile?

Talking at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar implied that NBC and News Corp.'s (mostly) slick video service could be moving to mobile phones, saying that they're "ripe for the Hulu experience." But, it might not look like the Hulu we know and almost love, since he mentioned that it "may not be identical" everywhere, but he thinks "anything connected to the internet would be a good fit for Hulu." Looks like healthy mobile TV might just materialize in the US. [MocoNews, Broadcasting & Cable]

1:50 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By matt buchanan
1,930 views, 17 comments

Latest by conglomerate: @-AP-: PROPS more »

streaming

Hulu Opening to Public Tomorrow, Adds Warner Bros and Sports

Hulu, NBC and Fox's new streaming service, is indeed opening to the public tomorrow as we reported rumors of yesterday. What's news to us is that Hulu will be adding Warner Brothers shows and sports as well. The sports will come as game recaps from the NBA and NHL (finger on the pulse!) as well as full NCAA games. Now, I don't want to be a Debbie downer here, and you can't argue with free, but with the copious advertising, spotty selection of episodes and lack of downloads you've gotta wonder just how much this is going to catch on. More »

11:40 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Adam Frucci
12,018 views, 24 comments

Latest by Xenocide: 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. more »

digital media

Hulu Launch Imminent But Will It Suck/Rock/Matter?

Hulu, the joint NBC/Fox online video service, may very well be launching any minute now, if sudden attention after months in quiet beta is any indication. We reviewed it last November (along with Joost and Miro), and we're still not sold on it. Our last experience was chock-full o' ads and didn't have nearly enough of the Battlestar episodes and SNL sketches we wanted. Still, as long as NBC holds its convenient little grudge against iTunes, it'll have to be a place for us to check for the latest TV shows. The question is, will we go willingly? [Alley Insider; Hulu]

12:29 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,965 views, 45 comments

Latest by jiganto: I love hulu, I've been watching majority of my shows through it now. Before that I'd be downloading majority of them. The only issue I have is that they need to improve the browsing interface and stop removing some of the more »

wga strikes back

Striking Writers Form Online Video Company Visual Artists, I Still Want New "Heroes"

Led by the writer of Air Bud (that bodes well), a large posse of out-of-work WGAers is looking to launch the online video company, Visual Arists, later this year with over $30 million in funding with Silicon Valley types. Supposedly a bunch of A-listers are on board, which gives small hope that they punch out fare along the lines of name-checked Juno and The Office. More »

10:45 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By matt buchanan
2,036 views, 3 comments

roundup

Afternoon News: Speak R2-D2's Language, Watch Hulu In HD, Get a Cheap Zune Dock and More

• Adobe's Flash Player 9 now supports the H.264 video codec. Expect more HD Flash video and greater iPhone compatibility as a result. [TUAW]
• Hulu began streaming in HD today, coinciding with Adobe's Flash update. Cold comfort if you ask me, since there are no TV shows left anyway. [Crave]
• R2-D2 Translator turns your typed words into the little droid's language. Be careful not to break the space-time continuum by asking it to translate "beep boop beep." [R2D2 Translator]
• Altec Lansing's M604 Zune dock is on Woot for a measly $45, more than $150 off the retail price. Line-in and video-out make this compatible with other players too, so it sounds like a sweet deal. [Woot]

4:00 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Benny Goldman
1,759 views, 1 comment

Latest by EMoShunz: H.264 - good no hulu invitation - bad more »

video wars

TV on Your PC: Hulu, Joost and Miro Reviewed

The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well. Looking to escape Reality TV hell? We've painstakingly reviewed three free (and mostly legal) video services—Joost, Miro and Hulu—for your faux-TV enjoyment during these dark times. More »

3:00 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007
By Matt Buchanan
33,982 views, 21 comments

Latest by smcasey: I have found that people take to watching TV on the PC faster then everyone realizes. After the same sitcom has been remade 20 times over people start wanting anything to watch. I have just completed a site for my more »

huluhoop

Hulu Review: What It Is and What It Should Be (Good, and Better)

We've been playing around with News Corp. and NBC's answer to internet video, Hulu, for a couple of days, letting the low-traffic, buttery smooth launch day stretch out more into real time and real traffic conditions before we let loose with our judgment. Let's get this out of the way: YouTube killer it ain't. Same genus, different species. More »

7:00 PM on Fri Nov 2 2007
By Matt Buchanan
10,835 views, 18 comments

hoolabaloo

Hulu Private Beta Goes Live Tonight; Will YouTube Blink?

The bastard child of News Corp. and NBC's love-hate relationship with GooTube, Hulu, is making its public debut this week, with the private beta going live tonight. The log-in form's already up, but those of us at Giz who've signed up for the beta haven't gotten our invites in the mail yet, so we haven't stuck our foot in the front door. Hulu's YouTube-killing voodoo is supposed be the fact that it's going to be awash in full-length episodes of TV shows, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Pretender to Heroes, along with movies (The Breakfast Club!) and content from Sony, MGM and others, lojacked with "25 percent as much advertising as broadcast norms." NewTeeVee has a thorough rundown laying out most of what you'd want to know before sending your email address into the corporate mystery chute. [GigaOM]

3:40 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,281 views, 14 comments

Latest by coolrepublica: Time magazine has an embedded video from Hulu. You can see what the resolution looks like. It is not bad. Actually it is very good. It's an episode of the Simpson. [time-blog.com] And people who want to get an invite, I would more »

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