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- ThePip, on 10/30/2009, -2/+332Hulu does not want to be a dead dot com after all.
- techdever, on 10/30/2009, -10/+271rest easy, AMERICAN web watchers
- appleseed1234, on 10/30/2009, -3/+142You mean like how Apple promised not to replace 99 cent songs, and have slowly begun phasing them out with $1.29 ones?
- theprince234, on 10/30/2009, -2/+82I'm still skeptical. My guess is that the company saw the negative response to the announcement and tried to cover themselves by saying the pay service will "build on" their existing free services. While I'm sure they will be adding additional content, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the more popular shows moved over to the pay service.
Sure, we'll still get free TV for MOST shows, but (choosing random examples) if you could still get Heroes for free, would you be willing to pay for House on the same service? I thought not. - Jrr6415sun, on 10/30/2009, -1/+50yes they're not switching to a pay site, but the commercials will gradually get longer and longer and probably max out at 5minutes per break, just like tv. I guarantee it. When it started they were 15 seconds, now a lot are 1 minute long.
- rwbrinso, on 10/30/2009, -6/+52Now if they'd just add porn.
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/30/2009, -2/+46"addition to its free content". Yeah, I'll get to watch as many episodes of Cleopatra 2525 or Son of the Beach as I want for free. Yay.
Last night's episode of The Office? Better get that subscription... - hughesj919, on 10/30/2009, -0/+43What are the odds that they add a lot of free content after this happens when they can now charge for it instead? Sounds to me like the free content will still suffer for this...
- happyimbecile, on 10/30/2009, -0/+36I don't think you know what ***** blocking actually is. This is just plain ol' blocking.
- Heiminator, on 10/30/2009, -4/+36http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
now stfu - Braxford, on 10/30/2009, -0/+29At first i was gonna agree with you, but then i realized this IS the internet, and free porn is literally a bookmark away.
- trdrstv, on 10/30/2009, -1/+30Duh... I think the design of Hulu makes it very easy to see "Premuim opportunities", in addition to what it has.
How about "Full show catalogs" or "HD" streaming ? - venom8599, on 10/30/2009, -2/+29I don't know about Mudock, but Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. owns a sizable share (27%) of Hulu, since it's subsidiary Fox Entertainment Group started it as a joint venture with NBC (and ABC also bought in earlier this year).
- BrandonJM, on 10/30/2009, -4/+29The rumor has pretty much no basis to it and was picked up by blogs who do little (to any) reporting. So go old media on this one for doing some reporting and putting a stop to that *****.
- theaceoffire, on 10/30/2009, -1/+23Or allow porn instead of commercials for paid accounts...
- inactive, on 10/30/2009, -0/+20Score, now I can spend less time downloading torrents for shows I only watch casually.
- andrerk, on 10/30/2009, -2/+21that wouldn't be apple's fault. it would be the labels...they choose the price.
- theaceoffire, on 10/30/2009, -1/+19>.> Maybe if you pay you can watch it in non-us?
But if that is the case, I think most people will just keep torrenting. - jrm125, on 10/30/2009, -2/+20Good. I'd have just moved back to torrents anyway.
- bratterscain, on 10/30/2009, -0/+15You make it sound like a theme park.
- merreborn, on 10/31/2009, -0/+14Yeah. I can't wait til Hulu adds porn.
Then there will finally be porn on the internet.
Wait, what? - Wreckage, on 10/30/2009, -3/+16Hopefully they will stop ***** blocking the PS3.
- sageerrant, on 10/31/2009, -1/+14Bookmark? Pfaw! You should be able to access porn simply by punching the keyboard.
- inactive, on 10/30/2009, -2/+15Adjusting for inflation.
/s - s73v3r, on 10/30/2009, -1/+14I think they'd have a hard time moving individual shows behind a paywall (unless they were from HBO or something), but adding full back catalogs, ad-free viewings and HD streaming might be worth paying for.
- redgiemental, on 10/30/2009, -1/+13No DRM'd songs on itunes anymore man
- pudnuck, on 10/30/2009, -0/+12Good.
- Pyrotic, on 10/30/2009, -1/+12Yep, as the viewership of Hulu grows, so will the ad minutes. They just want to find that sweetspot where it annoys you juuuuust enough.
- drufus, on 10/30/2009, -2/+13North America's hat.
- EliteBeat, on 10/30/2009, -3/+12Canada.
- Hetman, on 10/30/2009, -0/+9How about you start showing the whole seasons instead of just like the last 5 episode.
- yacks, on 10/30/2009, -0/+9they are called speedholes.
- ldailey06, on 10/31/2009, -0/+8i guess you shouldnt
- rocknog, on 10/30/2009, -0/+8Surely they realize they're in competition with torrenting. Anything they do to dick around with their customers, and Hulu dies. They may move to a pay site eventually, or they may simply make all new, popular shows pay only, but if they do, they're only going to drive people back to torrents. Thus, I can't be outraged with anything they do, because it'll only end up hurting them.
- s73v3r, on 10/30/2009, -0/+8Dude, opening up Hulu to a foreign audience would greatly increase its ad revenue. Of course, that's only a good thing if the networks want it to succeed, and aren't still more concerned with their broadcasts.
- bratterscain, on 10/30/2009, -0/+8UK has a Competition Commission? lol. 'You're serving the community too well, we shall end you!'.
- GerardMe, on 10/30/2009, -4/+12Hulu is the website that invariably says that its content cannot be seen in my country.. Consequently the Internet could not care less from where I am sitting
- shapedy, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7It would only increase it's revenue if it advertised international things. That's the issue preventing Hulu from going global. The ads (and therefore revenue source) are directed at Americans.
- gabebravo, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7Good job hulu.
- TylerDaniels, on 10/30/2009, -1/+8Thats only if you can consider Entertainment Weekly a reliable source of news.
- Steev0, on 10/30/2009, -0/+7Good job, "ul"!
- AndrewDB, on 10/30/2009, -3/+9That was more Sony's decision than Hulu's.
If you'll bitch at anyone, bitch at Sony. - seltaeb4, on 10/30/2009, -1/+7In politics this is what they call a "trial balloon."
- happyimbecile, on 10/30/2009, -0/+6Cleopatra 2525 might have sucked, but Jack of All Trades was awesome.
- rssej, on 10/31/2009, -0/+6hey newchap. Have you ever paid for NBC or FOX on top of the cable bill you already pay. So, how do networks make money to cover their cost and make profit, oh advertising. Idiot.
- SWGreg, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5The Competition Commission stopped it as it could be "too powerful". Was a great idea though.
- 4degrees, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5doesn't that just mean only the "crap" will be free? Or there will be more ads for the free stuff? personally i welcome the error message that says the commercial didnt load right. i would rather watch a few seconds of blank screen than an ad.
- yacks, on 10/30/2009, -3/+8i've yet to see one of these 60 second commercials.. longest i see if 30.. but i would still watch if commercials were 2 minutes long... it's about convenience of watching when i want.. and plus commercials give me time to go get a drink or something without hitting pause.. ;)
- bratterscain, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5Divx is so 2003.
- WanderingGuru, on 10/30/2009, -0/+5I doubt they ever had the intention of killing themselves off by making such a huge change. The original announcement seemed to have been blown way out of proportion or was just taken out of context entirely. I really hope the reality is something close to what I outlined in the comments on the article where the switch to a pay structure was rumored / announced:
http://digg.com/television/Hulu_s_Glorious_Free_Da ... -
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