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Tulsa, OK | Re: Die Already Hulu! said by kdwycha:I can't wait until this service takes its last breath. That's an odd thing to say.
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1 edit | Re: Die Already Hulu! No it's just a useless service with no balls.
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Camden, TN | Re: Die Already Hulu! said by kdwycha:No it's just a useless service with no balls. I guess it doesn't matter because you can get every TV episode you ever wish to download on torrent sites anyway. you can get shit from wal-mart for free if you shoplift. | |
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Camden, TN | said by kdwycha:I can't wait until this service takes its last breath. Why? So you can have LESS content and NO HD? last time I checked you have an OPTION to get Hulu Plus. So what is it to you if people want to pay for it? | |
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| Re: Die Already Hulu! It annoys me that they block devices such as GoogleTV when that is just another web browser in a different platform. Hell I can hook my computer up to the TV with an HDMI cable and do the same thing. I do not see why they have to be dicks. Pretty soon they will say you cannot access Hulu if you are a FiOS customer when they have to negotiate contracts with the broadcasting companies. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Die Already Hulu! said by kdwycha:It annoys me that they block devices such as GoogleTV when that is just another web browser in a different platform. Hell I can hook my computer up to the TV with an HDMI cable and do the same thing. I do not see why they have to be dicks. Pretty soon they will say you cannot access Hulu if you are a FiOS customer when they have to negotiate contracts with the broadcasting companies. And if Hulu dies or you boycott it then you still won't be able to access it. So again what is it to you? | |
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14225-2105 | ...and then comes the lockout Great...I'll start paying them their money, then they'll lock out my Google TV (well, as of yet it would be a theoretical GTV as I don't actually own one). Why did I pay them again? | |
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Madera, CA | Re: Hulu must be an awful place to work said by hottboiinnc:and you know how ??? you do realize who owns them right? Last I check NBC owns them. | |
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Canonsburg, PA | Re: Networks are prisoners of their affiliate stations said by Romney2012:The networks still get a tremendous income stream from their affiliate OTA TV stations around the country and from the cable & sat companies. But for how long from affiliate stations? Once Comcast takes over NBC it looks like CBS will be the only one of the four major broadcast networks that can't survive without its affiliates. If CBS is ever sold, maybe to Time Warner or perhaps reabsorbed into Viacom, then there will be none. | |
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Woodbridge, VA | Just keep it at $10... ...and eliminate the ads. I'd sign up in a second. | |
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Houghton, MI | Re: Just keep it at $10... This. Where's the value in Hulu Plus being more like cable? You have to pay a monthly subscription, AND see advertisements. And on top of that, to watch Hulu you must use your own bandwidth that you pay for separately. The innate value of it being through the Internet is somewhat countered by that fact that they lock down the signal so you can't play it everywhere you could play a normal stream. | |
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Camden, TN | said by RockCake:...and eliminate the ads. I'd sign up in a second. Geez it's not like regular TV where you have 22 minutes of show an 8 minutes of commercials. There's maybe 2 1/2 minutes. Heck you pay $60 for cable and it has WAY more commercials. | |
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| Re: Just keep it at $10... said by BF69:Geez it's not like regular TV where you have 22 minutes of show an 8 minutes of commercials. There's maybe 2 1/2 minutes. Heck you pay $60 for cable and it has WAY more commercials. Not any more. Commercials are why I cut the cord in the first place. Well, it wasn't the only reason. Point is, if I pay for streaming, I don't want to see ANY ads. Period. | |
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Chesterfield, MO | Re: Just keep it at $10... So does Hulu get $500/month for however many ads a typical person watches in a month? I would have thought they would get far, far less than that.
I was thinking Hulu might get another $10/month per subscriber due to ads and that they have a percentage-based cost structure with the content providers. (i.e. percent of the revenue generated for each episode.) | |
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kudos:12 | Not a Good Value I don't find the regular Hulu to be of much value, even though it is free. I find myself paying the Playstation Store $2.99 for episodes of shows in HD that I miss because one, they are in awesome HD quality, and two, they come out the day after the episode airs. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Not a Good Value said by Matt:I don't find the regular Hulu to be of much value, even though it is free. I find myself paying the Playstation Store $2.99 for episodes of shows in HD that I miss because one, they are in awesome HD quality, and two, they come out the day after the episode airs. You pay $3 for a 30 minute show in HD? Actually a 30 minute show is 22 minutes. Going to the movies is cheaper than that. | |
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kudos:12 | Re: Not a Good Value said by BF69:said by Matt:I don't find the regular Hulu to be of much value, even though it is free. I find myself paying the Playstation Store $2.99 for episodes of shows in HD that I miss because one, they are in awesome HD quality, and two, they come out the day after the episode airs. You pay $3 for a 30 minute show in HD? Actually a 30 minute show is 22 minutes. Going to the movies is cheaper than that. It's an hour long show with no commercials. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Not a Good Value said by Matt:said by BF69:said by Matt:I don't find the regular Hulu to be of much value, even though it is free. I find myself paying the Playstation Store $2.99 for episodes of shows in HD that I miss because one, they are in awesome HD quality, and two, they come out the day after the episode airs. You pay $3 for a 30 minute show in HD? Actually a 30 minute show is 22 minutes. Going to the movies is cheaper than that. It's an hour long show with no commercials. And last time I checked they charge the SAME price for half hour shows. Good luck trying to watch that on anything other than a PS3. | |
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kudos:12 | Re: Not a Good Value said by BF69:And last time I checked they charge the SAME price for half hour shows. Good luck trying to watch that on anything other than a PS3. What is your point exactly?
I don't want to watch TV anywhere but on my HDTV, which happens to have my PS3 attached to it. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: Not a Good Value said by Matt:said by BF69:And last time I checked they charge the SAME price for half hour shows. Good luck trying to watch that on anything other than a PS3. What is your point exactly? I don't want to watch TV anywhere but on my HDTV, which happens to have my PS3 attached to it. Well at least with Hulu or with a DVD you can watch it on ANY of your TVs. Not just the one your PS3 is hooked up to. | |
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kudos:12 | Re: Not a Good Value said by BF69:said by Matt:said by BF69:And last time I checked they charge the SAME price for half hour shows. Good luck trying to watch that on anything other than a PS3. What is your point exactly? I don't want to watch TV anywhere but on my HDTV, which happens to have my PS3 attached to it. Well at least with Hulu or with a DVD you can watch it on ANY of your TVs. Not just the one your PS3 is hooked up to. Not if they don't have the content I want to watch, which was my whole point. | |
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New Orleans, LA | I enjoy Hulu on my PS3 but the commercials are still an absolute joke for a paying service that competes with Netflix that has no commercials and a large library (yes, they compete whether people say it or not) | |
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Camden, TN | Re: I enjoy Hulu on my PS3 but said by Van:the commercials are still an absolute joke for a paying service that competes with Netflix that has no commercials and a large library (yes, they compete whether people say it or not) No they aren't one is mostly movies and one is mostly TV. The TV hsows Netlix does have is PAST seasons.
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Newark, OH | Re: I enjoy Hulu on my PS3 but Jesus man, do you work for Hulu or something? All of your posts have been defensive. Are you trying to justify to yourself why you were suckered into paying $10/mo for a worthless service or something?
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New Orleans, LA | I watch more TV by far on Netflix than Hulu so while you continue to claim that Netflix is more for Movies, others will continue the opposite and watch the numerous TV shows on Netflix
The amount of TV shows Netflix has gets me interested in shows that I never saw while on TV so I have watched full seasons of several shows and gotten caught up on Friday Night Lights, etc....
The people who try and make it seem like Netflix/Hulu aren't battling are sticking their head in the sand while every tech forum, every blog, and everyone in general write Netflix v. Hulu articles/posts debating which one to get and which is better | |
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| Re: Leave the price at $10 Yeah, I can't see why people would even pay $10 for such a thing. It's far cheaper to just shoplift at my local Best Buy; you get all the movies you want for free!
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Canonsburg, PA | Re: Leave the price at $10 said by runzero:It's far cheaper to just shoplift at my local Best Buy; you get all the movies you want for free! You can even win a trip to the gray bar motel, but it won't be free. | |
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Boynton Beach, FL | They need to rejigger the features HULU+ as it currently stands it's not worth it
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HD streaming
Ad-free
Whole-season availability
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Madera, CA | Price makes no difference to me, it's the content that does. The price isn't why I don't subscribe to their service it's the fact that they don't offer much to watch on their anyways. Put more contents than maybe I'll start paying. No more expires too, make all TV shows old and current available. | |
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| Why all the hate? Hulu provides a decent service for those who have a use for it. They have a good amount of content overall. Most new episodes now being put on Hulu may show as being available on both Plus and free, but are fed in HD on plus. That 720p video on my pc and ps3 is far better than what I currently can get from any TV provider. Charter is like the 1980s out here, with fifty-something analog channels, many of them fuzzy(though it is a cheap option). Of the sat providers, only Dish and DirectTV can serve me due to poor LoS. Due to that poor LoS, I can't see the other satellites where most of the HD signals are carried. You get the picture. While there is torrents, I prefer to only use them for specific things and to at least get most of my content legally. Since there is Verizon DSL(albeit from an RT), this service fills in some of the gaps quite nicely. Even though not as sharp as my bluray player or media server, they do provide a very nice picture quality on the 720p setting,
If the hate of this service is due to the fox fiasco, do remember that their hands are tied when Fox is one of several part-owners. I hope they never try something like that again, but I wouldn't stop enjoying my HD streaming to worry about that. If it happened, then either choose to use a proxy or seek other options. I don't see how that degrades the current value of the service. While big content pretty much runs this like they do the TV stations, this is just one more way to get their stuff, other than cable, etc. In my particular situation, it works, unlike more conventional methods.
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