Comments on: Ho Ho Ho: 5,000 Hulu Invites for Our Readers

By: Eric L

Eric L — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:42:28 +0000

Hulu > Joost. For sure.

Thanks.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:08:42 +0000

If you missed out on an invite you can still watch Full Hulu Episodes on http://hellohulu.com . All of the most popular shows are on there including, The Office, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Simpsons… etc.

By: seelenradio

seelenradio — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:07:45 +0000

2500 Hulu Beta Invites…

Hat eigentlich jede dieser Websites gedacht, sie sei die einzige, die Beta-Accounts for free an ihre Leser / Mitglieder verschenken kann?!

GigaOM
Mashable
ReadWriteWeb
TechCrunch

Sind diese die reichweitenstärksten Seiten zum Thema Web & Techno…

By: Clearing Up The Confusion

Clearing Up The Confusion — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:34:40 +0000

TV on Your Desktop…

I was fortunate enough to be reading TechCrunch today when the notice went up that there were some private beta invitations available for the much-anticipated Hulu.com service.What? You’ve never hear……

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:20:36 +0000

Thanks TechCrunch!

This is definitely better than Joost! Now I can watch all of my favorite programs, without TiVO!!!

A very satisfied customer…

~Darnell

By: Overseas Military

Overseas Military — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:10:05 +0000

I got my invite last week after waiting months. I was excited to finally get in and then found that I was blocked because Hulu has forgotten about the Overseas military. I’m in Japan on a military base, which is US sovereign land. My cable provide is a US provider named Americable that has contracted with the Department of Defense to provide cable and DSL to overseas military. I know Hulu can tell that I’m on the base, because Torrentspy prevented me from downloading loading from their site with a message that read, “you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torrentspy.com website”. If Torrentspy knows, then Hulu knows. I sent an email to Hulu last week asking them to open up to the military overseas but didn’t get a response.

I guess this means that Hulu doesn’t care about overseas military, an early Christmas present. Thanks Hulu.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:33:23 +0000

Thanks, TC… I just spent all morning watching Family Guy reruns instead of doing any actual work.

I’m actually surprised… the streaming quality is great. I haven’t tried any of the embed features yet, but so far so good.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:24:52 +0000

I finally got an invite to Hulu on my own… when I realised that no content could be played in Canada. None, nada zip.

Oh well….

By: dave

dave — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:14:42 +0000

I was surprised to like Hulu…they seem to be adding new content (although it should be easier to find (just added Roswell, Firefly, etc…) I would like to know when a show is going to “expire” if at all…and separate add a freakin’ symbol beside shows with just clips.

By: airj1012

airj1012 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:40:03 +0000

Have they been sent out yet? I signed up but I got no notification of anything. Odd.

By: mint question

mint question — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:23:52 +0000

why are you guys so surprised it doesn’t work outside of the states - the point of this site isnt to try something new, its to sell ads, and since the current ads are US-focused only, there’s no real reason for NBC to go thru all the legal mumbo jumbo of showing content outside of the states.

By: sage

sage — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:04:50 +0000

I signed up, got the invite and ended up with a SQL error. Perhaps Hulu rushed up with the invites because Catodicos also launched today? Hey TC, show some support for smaller startups! I’m seeing Hulu invites in all blogs I read (Mashable, GigaOM, RWWeb…), yet not a word about Catodicos.com anywhere. I thought TC would be different… So much for ClownCo…

By: Stan Oleynick

Stan Oleynick — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:02:37 +0000

Since TechCrunch is out of invites, as of few minutes ago Mashable still had more than 1,800 there, so you might want to get one there: http://www.hulu.com/beta/mashable

By: brendan

brendan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:53:33 +0000

hehehe I love hulu

By: Dfactor

Dfactor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:53:23 +0000

Thanks! Just watched some episodic TV…

By: Jakob

Jakob — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:26:21 +0000

Registered but no shows where available for me because i’m in sweden. So this site kinda sucks for me this far :L

By: Lateef X

Lateef X — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:20:22 +0000

Hulu roxrz…Battlestar Galactica from the 1st episode…loving it.

By: RZI

RZI — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:46:17 +0000

Is the US-only thing solved by using a US based proxy?

By: Sonny Gill

Sonny Gill — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:38:44 +0000

Thanks! Invites are officially GONE!

By: Roy Osherove

Roy Osherove — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:38:10 +0000

“Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvinience”
How silly.
I’m for Israel so I can’t see 90% of what’s on hulu.com.
way to go.

By: marques

marques — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:38:01 +0000

i am quite impression with Hulu, they also made a good decision to provide the embedded video. This will give them viral growth needed to compete with youtube. Also It allows me to bookmark the embedded video on my favorite social video bookmarking site http://www.myvidster.com/video/3250/ wink wink

By: David B.

David B. — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:35:47 +0000

Seems like they offered every single tech related blog 2,500 invites eh?

By: JeffC

JeffC — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:31:37 +0000

#30, when posting on a North American blog, especially when bashing the U.S., please us a ‘z’ instead of ’s’ in words like globalization. We like to substitute ‘Z’s. Adds more Zing. Thanks!!

By: TECHFLOCK

TECHFLOCK — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:26:24 +0000

When TC invites are gone - try http://www.hulu.com/beta/gigaom

By: john

john — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:21:50 +0000

Might be cool if It actually worked in Canada! I was all pumped to receive one of the first batches of private invites a few months ago, only to be disappointedly receive the ‘Video is not currently available in your country/region’ message.

Booooooooo