justaguy
@lmco.com
| If it were another company
If it wasn't NBC I might give it a try. If some network that didn't first try to hamfist regulation of the internet came out with a similar service I would consider it.
Sorry NBC, you had your chance.
(Well that and I don't know that I even watch anything from NBC) |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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|  Hulu adds 2 more content providers today
»news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071029/wr_nm/hulu_dc_4
The joint venture of General Electric's NBC Universal and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which earlier had trouble persuading other big content producers such as Viacom Inc and Walt Disney Co to join, now adds shows from Sony Pictures Television and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Hulu executives said.
Hulu will offer about 90 TV shows from the four companies and smaller partners ranging from current prime-time hits such as "Heroes" and "The Simpsons" to vintage shows "Miami Vice" and "The A-Team."
It will also make about 10 feature films available including "The Breakfast Club" and "The Blues Brothers."
Shortly after the test begins, these shows will also be made available on a handful of the biggest online distributors Time Warner Inc's AOL, Comcast Corp, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo. 1 neat feature is sharing a link in to a portion of the full length shows.
One distinguishing features created by a team that consists almost entirely of executives from the Internet and technology industries, addresses an issue that is unique to its service -- the ability to find a spot within a show that a viewer wants to share.
Viewers can adjust a slider at the bottom of the video window to clip the exact spot within a show -- a particularly funny skit on "Saturday Night Live" for instance -- to send or embed on another Web page. |
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Jwobot
join:2002-08-14
Sterling Heights, MI | No show
Does this mean they will have shows on their when FOX does not show them due to sports? |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
| OMG!!
It's "private" invite only. Anyone have a Demonoid account that they would like to trade for. I'll give you my "private" invite to Hulu 
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
Premium
join:2005-01-03 | And they wonder why...
"We don't want you to pirate, so we are going to pull our media from the market so you cannot purchase it legally."
Hmmm, back to IsoHunt, I guess... |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
clubs:
| a beta service?
Ok, so they want to control distribution. Fine. That's cool. They ought to be able to deliver their own stuff, and be able to see how many people watched... no problem with that.
But a "beta" service for a few shows? Come on. This is 2007, almost 2008.
It's painfully obvious that people want some very simple things.
1) a whole show, in a viewable format, no drm.
2) an easy way to get it
3) free would be preferrable
How hard can it be to encode some shows, even WITH commercials, and let people download the whole thing? Sure, do some streaming for the ultra lazy, but at least make it able to do full screen, not some lame Flash window the size of a credit card.
I just fail to understand the reasoning behind waiting to do something that "pirates" have already figured out, and have been doing for ...years?
Here's another thought... Hire some of these people who have nothing better to do than encode their favorite shows. Give them a few bucks, have them do the encoding.
How hard can it be to do this right? I just don't get it. Why not offer a decent service? Why all the little baby steps when the technology has existed for years to do this right?
Heck, why not offer official torrents? They can still track those right? I'd be willing to bet that people would actually download the "official" thing, even with ads, if it were of fair quality, free, and had come from an "official" source...
Good luck on this 'service' ...I hope somebody figures out how to do it right someday. Til then, guess I'll just keep using my regular ol' DVR from Cox and the always handy fast forward button. |
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b10010011
Whats a Posting tag?
join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA
·Comcast Formerly ..
| said by amungus  :...I hope somebody figures out how to do it right someday. I think Veoh (»www.veoh.com/) and Joost (»www.joost.com/) have this figured out pretty well.
The guys from the big networks just need to sell their content to or buy the technology from one of these two. |
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MrMaster
What If
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join:2000-12-16
Austin, TX
clubs: | reply to amungus
so are these shows being streamed? and by that i mean streamed for free but you pay to download them?
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | reply to amungus
They have a full screen flash player now, and all the networks have most thier shows available on thier websites.
It's amazing what 2 months can do with these content providers, all the players are pretty much updated. |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
clubs: | they do? well that's a step in the right direction  |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| cool
There's plenty of room on the internet for things like this. How does this relate to their on-line streaming shows? I've watched the new season of Heroes on their website and the quality is quite good. Downside is they play the same advertisement at each break... always the same diamond ad, it gets old fast and isn't helping the advertiser.
ABC has a lot of their shows on-line, the ads aren't as bad but the quality isn't high enough. YouTube is good enough for independent stuff but it needs to be better for things that can just be downloaded elsewhere. |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs: | yea right
They can allways sell the corn to MAKE GAS! that is were the real money is at
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
1 edit | reply to amungus
Re: a beta service?
Check it out;
»nbc.com
»abc.com
»cbs.com
»fox.com
Ive had a little trouble streaming fron nbc and cbs, but sometimes it works Cant beat the price >> free. |
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Airwolf
Premium
join:2001-10-30
Windsor, ON
clubs: | Too bad...
...their shows they allow you to watch on their website for free is not available for outside US.
So, I download them elsewhere. Fair enough don't you think? |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
2 edits | reply to Anonymous_
Re: yea right
said by Anonymous_ :They can always sell the corn to MAKE GAS! that is were the real money is at This is true. Even now Mexican housewife's are bitching about the price of maize, you call corn (remember the ad ) tortillas, blaming the increased price on the US and Mexican farmers converting their crop to corn squeeze'ns, and not tortilla flour.
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Eric Martin
join:2005-06-19
66308 | NBC??????
Why would anyone care about nbc programs?
We need alternative to mainstream tv if you people like nbc that much.
Very sad. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
| reply to Airwolf
Wrong site name
NBC webmaster loading their high quality streaming content. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | NBC? Movie Theaters? WTF?
NBC and Movie Theaters in the same sentence makes no sense.
NBC - Nothing But Crap... anyways, when did NBC start making movies?
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Think outside the Fox... Opera |
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jtudor
Xm 60's On 6 Freak
Premium,MVM
join:2002-12-07
Morganton, NC
| reply to Eric Martin
Re: NBC??????
said by Eric Martin :Why would anyone care about nbc programs? Ummm........
Friday Night Lights maybe?????
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Hehe
@ssa.gov | How does Hulu help corn farmers?
How does Hulu help corn farmers? |
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