Hulu May Offer Ad-Free Subscription Service

Now we're talking

Why wasn't it like this in the first place?

It would've saved me a bunch of time from blocking the ads through my router.

Hello, Plus already

I'm a HP user. I already pay 7 dollars for the service. If they're gonna charge more, it shouldn't be more then 10. Cause if it is, I'm already dealing with the ads and they can bite me.

Such a great idea, can't wait to see how they screw it up!

Watching what you want, when you want, without ads. Isn't that the reason people turned to the internet for TV in the first place? But if you give consumers what they want, they might just use it. And that would destroy traditional TV, so they will find some creative way to screw it up.

Re: Now we're talking

Funny thing is, I just cancelled my subscription because there has never been anything worth watching on it. New shows take 30 days to arrive, and it's full of ads. I guess I was paying so I could not watch it on my PS3?
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To know why they have not done this already, just look at who owns Hulu.

In other words....

"We were completly incorrect in our business model and might now change it to how everyone knew it should be. Who would have thunk that we needed to align ourselves with all the other companies that are making money in this game."

Hulu Plus a doomed platform

We tried Hulu Plus and Netflix at the same time with our Roku device. Less than 6 months later, we found that Hulu Plus just didn't seem worth the 7 bucks a month, as it doesn't seem that they get much new content and the ads were bothering me.

I feel that the Cable industry likes Hulu, cause you pay and you can still be spammed with ads, like old school coax business model. For me though, who just wants to pay for the content and doesn't care about the latest Cotex or GM to roll off the line, it was a deal breaker and I cancelled Hulu.

Dear Hulu execs(cable industry really) - customers pay for the content already, drop the ads or we can just drop you

The reason I don't use Hulu

Is that I refuse to see ads, especially when paying for a subscription service. I use and pay for Netflix, Pandora, Amazon Prime, and recently Apple Radio simply to avoid at all costs the mind-numbing, Baboon-IQ, LYING, ads.

It's too late for Hulu. Unless they can offer a better or more timely selection of shows than Netflix, there is no reason for me to subscribe to a Hulu ad-free service. Ad-supported anything is a deal-breaker for me, and I am not alone.

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Content is king!

You get me the latest movies from the major studios and the popular TV shows at the same time or shortly after they air and I will gladly pay $20 a month which is 33.33% more than the $8 sub + the $7 ad revenue.

Re: The reason I don't use Hulu

Have you completely cut the cord?

Re: Content is king!

What is their definition of ad-free??

Considering that "unlimited" isn't really unlimited in today's word, I'll be curious to see how many ads the ad-free version will contain.

It was like this before

IIRC, Hulu plus was like this in the beginning. Free Hulu had the ads and Hulu Plus had no ads. Then came the greed of their owners, and changed everything. Ads everywhere even in the Plus membership.