Hulu Plus Announced - $9.99/month with support for iOS, Samsung BluRay, Xbox 360, etc

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dwell

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You don't seem to understand what is happening here. Hulu has said their free site will continue to exist. Paying the $10/month will apparently just give you a wider/deeper (all episodes rather than just the latest 3-4) selection.

*You* don't understand. senseamp wants to navigate through a bunch of disparate sites which were designed for a mouse and keyboard and 1024x768 minimum resolution, changing his useragent string to desktop to get around the mobile bans, and deal with rendering video on his device which is targetted for desktop PCs 10x more powerful than his phone. All under (lol) Flash which is already slow.
 

TheWart

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With Froyo you don't need it. Android users can watch Hulu for free.

Yea, once everyone gets Froyo and Adobe's mythical hardware-accelerated flash.

And that is only if Hulu unblocks mobile devices....You can't watch Hulu on a Froyo device right now, and it is hard to see Hulu just lifting that block.

Sorry dude
 

dwell

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Yea, once everyone gets Froyo and Adobe's mythical hardware-accelerated flash.

And that is only if Hulu unblocks mobile devices....You can't watch Hulu on a Froyo device right now, and it is hard to see Hulu just lifting that block.

Sorry dude

Plus you're rendering video optimized for desktop, not mobile as is the case with the iPad/iPod apps.
 

TheStu

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This actually explains why Hulu is blocking Android Flash player access. Who is going to pay $9.99/month if they can just go on the website and use the Flash version for free?

Wait, I am confused, so walk me thorugh this slowly. Is the Flash version on the network sites free?
 

sjwaste

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$10 for ad-supported, full season catalogs is a good deal. Cable costs a lot more, and these are many of the popular shows. Cable still shows ads even though you pay for it, too.

Would be nice if they could post episodes at their normal air time, but that's probably a pipe dream.
 

TheStu

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Yep, just go to nbc.com, fox.com, comedycentral.com, etc.

Um, either you didn't get the sarcasm or... I am not sure what the alternative is seeing as how I think that is the fourth time you have mentioned, in this thread alone, that watching it on the network's websites is free.
 

TheWart

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Yea, if Hulu gets a decent amount of paying users, I am sure Viacom will change its tune and put the Daily Show back up.

I mean it is not like they can really be monetizing their Daily Show streams more than a $10 Hulu plan would be able to do.
 

theeedude

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Yea, if Hulu gets a decent amount of paying users, I am sure Viacom will change its tune and put the Daily Show back up.

I mean it is not like they can really be monetizing their Daily Show streams more than a $10 Hulu plan would be able to do.

They got ads in their Flash videos on their website. They get to keep 100&#37; of that ad revenue instead of giving a chunk to Hulu.
Any HTML5 stream of Daily Show and Colbert Report?
 

dwell

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Yea, if Hulu gets a decent amount of paying users, I am sure Viacom will change its tune and put the Daily Show back up.

I mean it is not like they can really be monetizing their Daily Show streams more than a $10 Hulu plan would be able to do.

No way that price is going to stick. 1,700+ one-star reviews at the app store. I think they are experimenting with prices, but $10/month does not make sense unless you're canceling cable and with no live sports, CBS, Viacom, etc, it's not worth it.

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TheWart

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No way that price is going to stick. 1,700+ one-star reviews at the app store. I think they are experimenting with prices, but $10/month does not make sense unless you're canceling cable and with no live sports, CBS, Viacom, etc, it's not worth it.

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lol

Those people need to roll up their jump to conclusion mats. It is a little premature to write the price off until we know what the catalog is going to look like.
 

dwell

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Those people need to roll up their jump to conclusion mats. It is a little premature to write the price off until we know what the catalog is going to look like.

Well, the catalog is pretty much there to browse from the app. Maybe they will add more but nonetheless it's a shitton of content as it is.
 

TheWart

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Well, the catalog is pretty much there to browse from the app. Maybe they will add more but nonetheless it's a shitton of content as it is.

True, but I am thinking (maybe hoping lol) that the Hulu folks realize that simply charging $10 for what they currently offer on the site for free isn't going to cut it and they will therefore come up with some other reasons to get people to fork over the $10.
 

theeedude

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Yea, but if the eyeballs are at Hulu, then Viacom will need to go there.

Eyeballs are on Daily Show/Colbert report, Hulu is just a middleman. Their viewers are tech savvy young people who can find the comedy central website.
 

ASTOCADDIDS

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I dont mind doing the transfer and all that. I can find out within 15mins from my mum. Email for FB?
 

ASTOCADDIDS

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I dont mind doing the transfer and all that. I can find out within 15mins from my mum. Email for FB?
 

OBLAMA2009

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why would anyone care about this. if you have time to watch all those tv shows youre a loser
 

Narmer

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I'll pass. Their business model doesn't make much sense considering most of their customers were computer savvy in the first place. Charging for it AND keeping ads in can only lead to failure, as seen by the ratings. They should just increase the ad count and make it free. That has worked for broadcast television for decades. Ironic that they are trying the cable model when they know damn well that a lot of their customers are trying to cut the cable bill.
 

Qbah

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Since they're providing the content with a monthly subscription, I was hoping it will become available outside of US. Seems that's not the case which is a shame. So no Hulu for me, even at &#8364;10 / month.
 

shortylickens

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Seeing as how I am already paying for Netflix and getting all the shows I want, I honestly cant see how they will convince me to pay for Hulu, especially when they will keep the ads.

Good luck with that model, Hulu. Given the responses in this thread I am sure plenty of people are willing to make them even richer than they are.