Viacom (Comedy Central) now courting NBC's Hulu

[Foxery]

ArsTechnica link

Cliffs: The Daily Show and Colbert Report are now playing on the Hulu streaming TV service. Woo!

I'll have to play with this when I get home - the quality and size of Comedy Central's own video sections are terrible. Ars says 15 episodes are online - I hope this means they're keeping the last 3-4 weeks worth of shows, the way NBC.com does. Being able to catch up without using my, uh, "alternative" sources, would be nice.

 

[mundane]

I saw them this morning - I too have a gripe with the Comedy Central interface, and being able to watch last night's episodes via Hulu was nice. The commercial interruptions weren't too bad.

 

[George P Burdell]

Watching the Daily Show in 480p online is nice!

 

[Jeff7]

I've never used Hulu, but they play the full episodes right on Comedy Central's site.

People in the comments mention ads. I don't see any though. Adblocker doing its thing, perhaps?

I'm stuck at 500kbps though. RR-Lite maxes out at 768kbps and can't keep up with the 800kbps thing.

I wonder how long the free episodes are going to last.

It's nice to see The Daily Show in full again, and still just as sad as ever to see the idiotic drivel that's on the major news outlets.

 

[Foxery]

Wow, I'm very impressed with Hulu. I sat down to check it out for "just a minute before dinner"... 1 1/2 hours ago

It turns out they are carrying the past several weeks of episodes for both shows, plus a few other random clips. Quality is not too shabby at all, considering it's streaming through Adobe Flash. (The higher definition content suffers from constant image tearing.) The amount of video available, the picture and sound quality, and the controls on the player are all leaps and bounds better than the shoddy layout and material on Comedy Central's own site.

There are a ton of other TV shows (more than I expected) and even a few dozen full length movies. I hope NBC keeps going forward with this.

 

[ChaoZ]

Why the hell are their advertisements are of their own site?