Comments on: More Hulu Goodness: Embedded Video

By: Raku

Raku — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:44:58 +0000

> HULU is bad word in russian language )))))) and it not work here

I love that comment.
I’m in south korea. HULU isn’t a word in Korean, but “it not work here” either

By: dottore

dottore — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:50:53 +0000

austria » not available

By: rochak

rochak — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:31:43 +0000

Not available in Singapore ) anyone knows a woraround

By: Taina

Taina — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:20:27 +0000

I am getting seriously sick of this. First NBC backs out of iTunes, so I can’t download episodes AND GIVE THEM MONEY through there, then they region block so I can’t watch their shows through their site. Brilliant. I was willing to give them cash before, but screw that, I’m boycotting, and hello BitTorrent, I’m going to start using you now.

By: Sam Freedom

Sam Freedom — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:57:57 +0000

Cant see it here either. Oh wait, sorry, I had my blinders on.

By: Anu

Anu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:18:01 +0000

Yeah, thumbs down from Finland too. Figures, it might be a bit more profitable to sell DVD box sets (or rent them out 1 disc at a time) or brand-new pay per view web TV by local networks for the newest episodes without waiting a year for them to reach TV. Sigh.

By: Sergey Pimenov

Sergey Pimenov — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:02:35 +0000

HULU is bad word in russian language )))))) and it not work here

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:51:52 +0000

Hulu, MTV, VH1, NBC — What do you have against Canada?

By: 77Lab

77Lab — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:14:42 +0000

I have another one! Italy: unavailable…

Seems pretty clear by now that this ain’t available nowhere ‘cept the States. Now let me try that AOL thingy.

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:35:05 +0000

From India, can’t see the blocked vids…Hulu sucks YouTube rocks!

By: Inetgate

Inetgate — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:28:11 +0000

I am in Japan, and I can’t see it.

By: whoa

whoa — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:50:31 +0000

Wait… i just saw they could be offering SAP.

By: whoa

whoa — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:48:36 +0000

It’s also unavailable here but…

There is code in there that suggest fullscreen.
There are at least two video resolutions.
They are using lightningcast for their ads.
They are watching what are you watching in real time (rtmp)
Unlike other players, this one is a bit tougher on the subject of finding out where the stream comes from (Is this the same technology they used on nbc.com?)
The code hints to subtitles as well.
Interesting, ID3 info…
Voting (as well as viewing perhaps) is GeoDetected.
There is an XML Playlist that would hint (possibly) where the videos are (so you could … maybe … watch them even if you are not in their area.

But apart from that… no i cannot watch hulu’s videos, which is kinda sad (didn’t they learned from DVD regions?). At least i can watch it all on basic cable.

By: Xin Chen

Xin Chen — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:47:48 +0000

I am in Beijing, China. The video is not available here.

By: PaulLMF

PaulLMF — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:20:08 +0000

No in Malaysia too. But you all can watch ours.. & even enJoy it if ur Mandarin or Bahasa is up to it! Just launched and getting a huge response. I can feel for anyone doing a catchup tv service with multi stations n over 40 shows a day tho:)
http://www.8tv.com.my – http://www.tv3.com.my

By: Finding Free WiFi

Finding Free WiFi — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:56:39 +0000

Lazy Sunday’s Back…

Seem’s somewhat fitting that the video that struck viral magic at YouTube is one of the first posted using Hulu (at least the first I’ve seen). I’m not cool enough yet to get an invite…but Mike Arrington’s screenshots are inticing….

By: Lancelotz

Lancelotz — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:28:58 +0000

Brazil: Not available

By: Bob Jones

Bob Jones — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:44:53 +0000

This is extremely dumb … I can understand full episodes being blocked, because clearly somebody in each of our countries likely paid a lot of money to show those full episodes … but clips? Come on, it serves as promotion for the show … if I saw the clip above, I might go watch it on whichever UK net was airing it, people might start writing the nets telling them to air the show if they don’t … in short, its publicity, that publicity needn’t be US limited.

And to please the corporate realists, how about allowing the clips to those outside of the US but advertising the foreign net who airs it? I could watch a clip of The Office and have a small banner at the bottom or a message at the end saying something like “Wednesdays at 8:30 on ITV2″ .. win, win I would think.

By: Satish

Satish — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:57:09 +0000

Cant see it in Canada.. gay.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:33:57 +0000

is the email share function working for anyone?

By: Patrick C.

Patrick C. — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:40:02 +0000

I hate the name, let me say that first. Also, I don’t see a reason for switching as long as I can watch them on http://www.cavenger.com and http://www.youtube.com.

Anybody else agree with me?

By: David Kahn

David Kahn — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:29:35 +0000

“This video is not available in your country” Im here in New York City. What’s the matter?

By: Spandana

Spandana — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:49:53 +0000

this is looking good. the embed players are becoming the mini ’site-in-a-site’. page views will be shot (if they aren’t already), users spending too much time in the embed player, all eCPM calcs out of whack.

fun fun!

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:26:32 +0000

This is the start of something cool!

A La Carte cable is no longer needed! Just hook your PC up to a large LCD TV and enjoy (my set up = http://www.tech.../internetTV.php )!

Though this could lead to Billing by the byte as more people cancel their cable TV subscriptions.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:15:12 +0000

Man if NBC is going to drop several million dollars into this
thing the least they could do is create a little bit nicer
video player. Man this thing is crap. The animations are
terrible.

Someone needs to tell their Flash developers about a
little thing called FuseKit. Quit with the timeline animations,
my goodness this is a multi million dollar project.