If you are still waiting for a Hulu invite and want to see more than the lower quality video available on AOL, here you go. Silicon Alley Insider noticed that embedding video gives others the ability to watch that and other related content, and embed it themselves. Let me know if you are outside of the U.S. and can’t see the video.
Update: Ok, the comments make it clear that the embedded video is being blocked outside of the U.S., too.
Sigh.
Anyway, here’s the same video on YouTube.
“This video is not available in your country” - over here in the Netherlands we can’t see it.
I’m in France and I can’t see that video.
“Unfortunately this video is not available in your country or region. We apologize for the unconvenience”
Trying to watch it from Vancouver, Canada. Says it is not available in my country or region.
Alas, dead in the UK too. Kind of limits the potential of putting it on the web, I’d have thought? I’m fed up of TV with borders, and the Daily Show got it absolutely right with their site.
Likewise, also from Vancouver, B.C., no can see!
All i can say is that was Crazy Delicious.
Toronto, Canada.
Not avaiable! Dammit, its iTunes and Movielink all over again.
from nigeria. . . and its not available here too…
we have readers in Nigeria?
Sweden: Not avaiable!
not available in Israel
yeah, i’m guessing it ain’t available anywhere outside of the U.S. I love the reports from around the world, though. Hi everyone!
Mike - I was in Bangladesh recently, and came across a PC in an internet cafe outside one of the smaller towns in the country. There were two favorites saved on the browser: the first was a site with a fairly graphic name that I shall not reprint here, but the second was TechCrunch. This in a place where the average yearly income is 400 bucks. So looks like porn and TechCrunch are both truly global phenomenon!
Shafqat
No full screen option?
Obsolete before it’s even released.
The audio quality was also absolutely terrible.
Works in FF but not IE7 for me
There is full screen on the actual site.
The video quality looks okay, but the sound is crap.
The video looks great when you go to another video. I’m glad to see them doing 16×9, but couldn’t they get away from both letterboxing and pillarboxing (black bars on both the top and bottom and left and right sides)?
When you select another video (I chose “**** in a Box”), the video fills the whole window and looks gorgeous.
Seriously, they own this content, are they really this stupid? I wonder if they stretch their 4×3 content to 16×9 too?
I guess I’m still grumpy that NBC hates iPod owners.
Randy
Spain: not available
Not available in Greece
Hmmmm….I’m in the US and was able to play the video once…but now its coming up as not available in my region….
It’s not available in Australia.
I tried the AOL version earlier today and it wasn’t available either.
HULU! Revolutionary, radical, earth shaking, creative, ……
Say goodnight iTombs!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I get the same experience as John S. reports - works fine for me in FF but no video or player controls show up in IE7 (all black screen, top left corner is “active” and when clicked, the audio works).
The related videos got me to 24 and the Simpsons and I quickly created this Tumblr page http://watchhulu.tumblr.com/
Not full screen but no need for a Invite either …….
Just to complete the list: also in Germany - no video avaiable.
The sound quality is poor but I’d go as far to say the video quality is definitely better than anything Gootube pushes…
The top banner on Hulu tells you to “Watch your favorite videos. Anytime. Anywhere.” Riiight. First, NBC and Fox videos are not automatically my favorite videos. Second, I clearly cannot watch them anywhere. This is typical TV executive corporatespeak: vague claims insulting your intelligence.
Dead in Ireland too. Great use of the web, resurrecting borders in a virtual world.
A pity as Hulu looks half decent.
Doesn’t work in Nicaragua Either…
Video can’t be seen in Mexico.
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.
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.techavid.com/internetTV.php )!
Though this could lead to Billing by the byte as more people cancel their cable TV subscriptions.
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!
“This video is not available in your country” Im here in New York City. What’s the matter?
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?
is the email share function working for anyone?
Cant see it in Canada.. gay.
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.
Brazil: Not available
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
I am in Beijing, China. The video is not available here.
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.
Wait… i just saw they could be offering SAP.
I am in Japan, and I can’t see it.
From India, can’t see the blocked vids…Hulu sucks YouTube rocks!
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.
Hulu, MTV, VH1, NBC — What do you have against Canada?
HULU is bad word in russian language :))))))) and it not work here
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.