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Yahoo Out of Hulu Bidding
Leaving Dish, Amazon and Google
Sources tell the Wall Street Journal Yahoo has pulled out of the bidding for Hulu, leaving only Dish, Amazon and Google as the only remaining bidders. As we recently noted, bids for Hulu haven't been as high as Hulu's cable and broadcast industry owners would like, in large part because they plan to eliminate free content from the service and make the new owners pay a fortune for licensing. Google has been rumored to have bid $4 billion, but only if existing licensing arrangements are kept in place. Dish would love to integrate Hulu with their Blockbuster streaming services, but Hulu's owners may still opt to scrap the auction entirely.
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BUCKEYECOM
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BUCKEYECOM

Anon

If

Google gets Hulu they'll lose all their contracts ith the broadcasters/content owners and/or fees will go up so high Google won't be able to afford them- regardless of how much money Google has in their bank to burn from their ad-snooping and selling.

The Content owners already killed GoogleTV so they can kill this product as well. Plus did we forget who owns Hulu? The content owners- Comcast-NBCU, FOX and others. Kiss Hulu good by.
AndyDufresne
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Re: If

Enemy number one of content owners is HULU with Netflix a close second. Google has to be crazy to want to throw away 4 billion on a portal that is getting less and less content.
openbox9
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openbox9

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Re: If

I doubt that Google needs the portal (hello YouTube)...it wants the content licensing deals.

BUCKEYECOM
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Anon

Re: If

and the licensing is what is going to stop. If Google wanted to license anything they could have done that with GoogleTV that was killed off. The AppleTV threat that NEVER happened.
openbox9
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openbox9

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Re: If

In 5 years if Google wins with the terms stipulated in its bid. Licenses can be renegotiated after that by throwing enough money at the content owners.
said by BUCKEYECOM :

If Google wanted to license anything they could have done that with GoogleTV

I agree. That was one of Google's failings with its TV product.

BUCKEYECOM
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to AndyDufresne
The content owners actually make $$$ off Hulu- they OWN Hulu. Those ads on there are paid by someone and the content owners are the ones bringing in the $$$$.
openbox9
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That's why Google stipulated terms extending the content licensing agreements (five years I believe was the rumor) with its bid.

The content owners didn't kill Google TV, Google killed Google TV and is now attempting to revitalize it by throwing Honeycomb on it and granting access to the Market...which should have been done from the beginning IMO.

BUCKEYECOM
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Anon

Re: If

it was killed due to the content owners blocking the device to access their websites. Google had a sub-par product just like they did with their Nexus One phone.

And they can do 5 years all they want. Google won't get GoogleTV with Hulu. Content providers; especially ViaCom does NOT like Google. And won't sell to them.
openbox9
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Google failed to initially do with Google TV what it is now trying to catch up with. Google needs content and crappy 30 second YouTube uploads isn't cutting it. Google is losing out on building its ecosystem to Apple and Amazon (ironically using Google's tools). If Google wants to seriously get into content distribution (and the inherent ad dollars going along with it) then it needs a Hulu-like service.
Kearnstd
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The content owners will want to kill it because they simply hate when the viewer is not bound by their obsolete idea of fixed television scheduling.

IMO all content should be on demand at this point in time. content owners just hate the idea of consumers having full control.
slckusr
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slckusr

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Dear Dish

Its a trap!

BUCKEYECOM
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Anon

Re: Dear Dish

wouldn't be a trap for Dish they have the $$ and Blockbuster to turn this into a movie site very easily.
xenophon
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Re: Dear Dish

I still have Netflix streaming but just last week switched to BB for discs since they have games, no 30 day delay and instore swapout. If BB gets Hulu and bumps up the content, I'd probably dump NF altogether.

BB needs to exploit the NF weaknesses and they could really take off if they play their cards right.
HiDesert
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Re: Dear Dish

said by xenophon:

I still have Netflix streaming but just last week switched to BB for discs since they have games, no 30 day delay and instore swapout.

They closed all the BB in Albuquerque. In fact , I think they closed all of them in the state of New Mexico. Brick and mortar stores are near their end of life cycle. Content owners are only going to drive more piracy to torrents and usenet with their unwillingness to change. How is tightening the controls on netflix, redbox, Hulu and PPV going to reduce piracy? The only thing that this protects is theaters but even that is limited with how much movies cost. The content IMO has taken a noise dive and there are very few movies that I am willing to spend 30 bucks to go see. Not because I don't want to go, its just that few movies interest me anymore. There are many times when I check movies wanting to get out of the house only realizing that I just don't want to bother with another cheap remake or mediocre film that barely keeps the viewers interest.

HUDU
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Anon

retarded...

The problem is...

without the content, Hulu isn't worth shit. Seriously, its just another streaming infrastructure. For Google, that's just another datacenter to manage (if that, for all we know Hulu is Clouded already, I didn't lok that up). YouTube already have streaming content delivery, so that is of no value to them. Essentially, Google wants to pay 4billion dollars for those licenses.

And the content owners are saying no. So they will wind up "stuck" with Hulu. Cause everyone else can see that paying a massive amount of money for it then having to negotiate billions more afterwards just ain't worth it.

ctceo
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ctceo

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Bye Bye Hulu

It was nice knowing you.

{sighs}

Back to eztv.it I guess.

Mr Anon
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Anon

Errr what?

I haven't been following this because I don't have a horse in the race but I am confused by this because I thought Yahoo! was still being courted around and even MS was looking again at buying them. Meaning they are in trouble not that they are doing so well.

NJxxxJon
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NJxxxJon

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Hulu minor issues.

I dont watch hulu to much anymore cause I cant get on at work. They like to add videos to my favs and not tell me until a few days later. And...well...their PAY US FOR crap sucks ......