| Hulu isn't perfect... There are things that Hulu doesn't do, features it doesn't offer, that users of Hulu complain about, so there are "improvements" that plenty of people would be willing to pay some amount of money for. Hulu execs haven't made any statement to the effect that Hulu will migrate to a subscription-only plan, only that some content may be offered using such a plan (but this was the plan all along). Maybe you like HBO. Maybe all you really want from HBO is, say, Saturday night movie premieres (if there is such a thing--I don't know). If Hulu started offering that, would it be worth a few dollars a month for you to subscribe to it (and drop HBO from your "cable" package(s), if you get it)?
Also, without that web video "fad", of which Hulu is only a part... how many customers would really be interested in getting super-fast FiOS? Wouldn't 3000/768 DSL be plenty fast enough for at least half of Verizon's customers? 
Of course, Comcast could very well kill that goose if it gains control. Wouldn't that be "Fancastic"?  |
