Comments on: No Need to Wait: Hulu Videos Already Available on AOL

By: ahmet dincer

ahmet dincer — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:36:07 +0000

anonymizer works for sweden also. but it is not a free service. you can try the 7day trial.

yet they suggest an app called hotspot shield for hulu and sling worth to try.

By: jly

jly — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:59:24 +0000

http://www.anonymizer.com/

works good. (from Canada)

By: anonimousy

anonimousy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:12:22 +0000

SICK

I dont understand why google video gives hulu and aol
We cant watch em in the world so results dont belong in there
They are only visable in a lil country called USA
Google video is for the whole world

So i say BAN aol and hulu from google video search results
As it makes all people in the world Hate Americans
We upload our finds for everyone in the world to see
Hulu and Aol are patriotic Crap sites that need to be banned

By: person in PH

person in PH — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:49:04 +0000

“The requested video cannot be displayed in your region.” for Philippines as well.

By: michaelkoo

michaelkoo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:59:10 +0000

No not in China either.

I watched AOL video before, which is the TVKOO, i think.

Work pretty good for in my areas.

AOL, Mediazone.com, NBC Sports are all using TVKOO, but i guess users like try more new things, that’s why AOL adds lulu.

By: Frank Bascio

Frank Bascio — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:11:08 +0000

No go in Taiwan either (why did I even try?)

被請求視頻無法顯示在你的地區

“The requested video cannot be displayed in your region”

By: vjthor

vjthor — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:25:54 +0000

Doesn’t work in Spain either.

By: MikeB

MikeB — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:10:10 +0000

Doesn’t work in Canada either.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:09:08 +0000

Looks like the videos are also up on MSN:

http://tv.msn.c...v/full-episodes

WAY more than 18 shows too…

…though I still can’t access them from Canada.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:52:13 +0000

Doesn’t work in Europe either. For all their hype not much seem to have changed. Europeans are still left with Bittorrent or Usenet as the only viable alternative, when you want to watch movies at home without spending hours going to a shop and standing in line to rent DVDs.

Come on. How hard can it be? Amazon and Apple have both proven that people are willing to pay for movies and music.

So stop excluding the EU! Theres almost 350 mio. of us, and we got more money to spend, than the average american.

The music and movie industry must be the only industry in the world, whos against making money.

By: Justin Thorp

Justin Thorp — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:52:31 +0000

It all works perfectly for me. Looks great!!!! I still don’t think it should replace their presence in iTunes.

By: Raúl C.

Raúl C. — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:19:07 +0000

Heh, found it. Can’t view it on my region though.

I don’t get this. Why is Puerto Rico a part of the United States when you guys need help in your silly wars, when you come here with your “superior” Army and take lives from here and deposit them in your silly aquarium of lies…

… but we aren’t part of the United States for watching video? Contests?

I still don’t get this.

By: Raúl C.

Raúl C. — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:15:29 +0000

Uuhhrrr… why can’t I find Heroes on that list? I don’t see any NBC episodes on the AOL Video website…

By: Henk

Henk — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:58:55 +0000

Nice to see them going in the right direction. Sad I can’t see any of the videos in Estonia

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:51:59 +0000

Would be interesting to see how Hulu develops over time…

By: somewhere_in_europe

somewhere_in_europe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:52:27 +0000

…and there it comes: to every protection mechansim you have a remedy.

By: Pratham

Pratham — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:24:20 +0000

The site uses http://releaseg...lu.com/geoCheck to check whether or not to display videos. The response is either ‘not-valid’ or ‘valid’.

Redirect this subdomain to your own server (which always returns ‘valid’) and the videos should work.

I tried that, but get a ‘The requested video is not available’ error?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:22:25 +0000

@10 Dont overestimate the use of those other download sites. Although I have no hard numbers, my gutfeeling would be that it’s maybe 10% of users that is both savvy enough and engaged enough to go through that trouble.
(Sure, that could mean a 100 million people worldwide using torrents, piratebay, russian music downloads and whatnot – but that also means 1 billion people not doing so….)

Sites like Hulu.com might be the breakthrough for the big audience. But it is remarkable how they dont seem to be able to break out of the general paradigm – content still being scheduled and geographically restricted. That’s sooo 20th century

By: Dan Ackerman Greenberg

Dan Ackerman Greenberg — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:56:56 +0000

Then again, they’re syndicating content to MySpace, AOL, Yahoo, so why not reach into FB as well? At the end of the day, they still own the player and they still have the ability to sell ads inside of their shows, so why not?

Dan
http://www.acke...angreenberg.com

By: Dan Ackerman Greenberg

Dan Ackerman Greenberg — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:29:52 +0000

How long ’til a Facebook application?

Hopefully they’ll be some way for 3rd party to turn it into an FB app, because News Corp sure as hell isn’t going to want Hulu to exist inside of FB.

By: Thássius

Thássius — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:29:32 +0000

*from

By: Thássius

Thássius — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:29:13 +0000

As usual, their system filters access form Brazil. I can’t even try it.

By: somwhere_in_europe

somwhere_in_europe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:14:55 +0000

“The requested video cannot be displayed in your region.”

So AOL still yet doesn’t get the idea of internet.

Time to get back to dowload the shows of interest from torrents.

The especially annoying usability feature is that the video is displayed in thumbnails list and even the video details page. So filter everything non-accessible out and don’t fool the would be users that one has sooo many conent to show.

A normal reaction of a normal user is to dump hulu and go to some of those tens or hundreds of other hosting sites.

By: Lior Haner

Lior Haner — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:13:06 +0000

Like I wrote on your other post:
After checking with friends, it looks like its closed for Europe and the middle east as well as Australia. That really sucks.

By: Tcruncher2

Tcruncher2 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:56:03 +0000

@6 –> why should we “grow up” ?

License the fking content so everyone can see it.

Why open a platform to compete with Youtube when its not even international –> youtube never had such restrictions.

So go blow yourself.