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11/03/09
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09/08/09
I was very happy to come across the entire series "Spaced", the brilliant Simon Peg TV show from Great Britain. Seriously, that show is amazing and the joke at the end of the 1st episode had me laughing for days.
But HULU can get stingy with shows. "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" (also brilliant) used to have every single episode available. Now they only have 5 at any given time.
So to answer the question, I prefer HULU and I really don't mind the commercials.
09/04/09
09/05/09
09/04/09
No, I get it, guys, it's still early in the relationship, you've only been dating for a year. And that's including the time when VOD was hanging out with that media whore, Boxee. You know Boxee is just a dog looking to get her in his playlist. But you guys talked it out. She swore she wasn't gonna leave you, but you weren't sure. You'd been burned in the past and didn't want to get hurt again. So, to cradle your bruised ego, she agreed to stop seeing Boxee.
Now, it's been a while since that whole debacle. Content providers? VOD proved her loyalty to you. She's brought you good press, ad revenue AND licensing revenue. Don't lead her on, though. She's not gonna wait her whole life for you to make a decision.
She *wants* to be your one-and-only, chosen method of content distribution. She's just looking for you to commit. None of this teasing her with seasons available online for a while, only to pull back when she thinks things are getting good. None of this crappy movies from 20 years ago. She wants your best.
And she's willing to give you her best, too, guys. You think that if you commit, give her everything she's looking for that she won't be willing to maybe supplement that ad revenue with a subscription fee? Sure you guys can still have your fun, some shows and some movies tossed out for free, but she knows that full access to movies and all episodes of shows takes hard work. And she is ready.
So, guys, don't make her wait.
09/04/09
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09/04/09
@Kraken: FTFY
Any guy who doesn't have the hots for Tina Fey needs their d20s crushed in a vice for penance.
09/04/09
Yeah. I'm gay and even I think Tina Fey is hot.
09/05/09
09/04/09
Now I need Hulu on my Samsung BluRay player, just as I have Netflix.
On a side not, I really wish HD-DVD had won as today I am sending back to Netflix my 4th BluRay disc in 3 months which won't play but looks undamaged. I'm starting to get rather pissed as that's more failed discs than I've had in five years of playing Netflix DVDs.
09/04/09
09/05/09
I put some of the blame on BluRay because HD-DVD discs were made with a manufacturing process very close the well proven DVD manufacturing processes whereas BluRay discs are made with a new, more complicated (and more expensive) process.
09/04/09
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09/04/09
Bad, Friday Night Lights...
09/05/09
Either way, Hulu has consistently went down hill very quickly over the past 6 months. They blocked, Boxee which is an awesome program, they blocked PS3 which kills part of their ad revenue and Half of their shows are either gone or butchered. When I watch TV I like to watch a series all the way through, not random episodes spread across 5 seasons (looking at you family guy/american dad/it's always sunny). It's such a shame that Hulu used to be the shit like last year and then the bigwigs trashed it.
09/05/09
09/04/09
Sorry content owners. As laws get more and more ridiculous, more and more "law-abiding" citizens begin to disregard them.
09/04/09
09/04/09
I also planned on starting Friday Night Lights. I watched seasons 1 and 2 of 30 Rock entirely on Netflix, and I still ended up buying the DVD sets as well.
Netflix streams at a much higher quality than Hulu and has more shows available. I don't see how limiting where viewers can watch their shows and decreasing the number of episodes available will increase revenue.
09/04/09
This.
Frankly, I like the Netflix viewer better than Hulu's. Also, I'm paying for Netflix. And while yes, despite Netflix' desire to move more online, they are primarily a DVD company, I get most of my value from the Instant Watch. Pulling content from Netflix devalues the product I'm paying for. And I'm sure they get a cut of that.
Of course, not as big of a cut, I'd imagine, as they would from Hulu. So, naturally, they'd love to pull their content from Netflix and put on Hulu, devalue the service I pay for in order to increase the value of their service.
Honestly, I can't get too mad since Hulu is offered for free, but shenanigans like this will really hurt Hulu's abiity to ever charge a subscription fee. Which frankly, if it meant more show availability (and no more stinking blocking it from TVs), I'd be more than willing to pay for that.
But not if they're going to keep pulling content from other services I pay for.
09/04/09