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By: FuzzLinks » It’s Official: Hulu Opens Up on Wednesday March 12, 2008

FuzzLinks » It’s Official: Hulu Opens Up on Wednesday March 12, 2008 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:32:29 +0000

[…] No one can say they didn’t see this one coming: Hulu will finally open up to the public this week, on Wednesday to be precise and yes, it’s official. The company’s been in private beta for 4.5 months. If you haven’t managed to snag one of the many invitations floating around, Hulu’s a remarkable online video service despite its shortcoming.http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/10/its-official-hulu-opens-up-on-wednesday/ […]

By: Marco Lopez

Marco Lopez — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:37:31 +0000

It’s a shame americans launch a website only avaliable to them, youtube probabily will become a monopoly as a video social network comunity, and other competitors like hulu.com will never reach the audience level youtube has because of this feature to deny this service to other citizens in the world.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:01:01 +0000

So I won’t have to use http://StreamingTVEpisodes.com to watch HULU any more?

Cool.

By: WMMike

WMMike — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:31:32 +0000

Looks great … let’s see what YouTube says tomorrow!

By: JB

JB — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:53:20 +0000

Cant wait to try it out

By: xavierv

xavierv — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:13:07 +0000

Hulu is mostly a bunch of 1:30 video clips. But when you land on a full-length movie or series, then it becomes good.

Let’s see what happens now

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By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:59:10 +0000

I was very excited about this site when I first heard about it during the wind down of Stage 6. However I live in Canada, which blocks my access to watch shows that are filmed in Canada and the many shows which have Canadian actors.

So just to clairfy from the 1st comment by Jon “not the entire world lives in North America”. Not all of North America can watch either! And believe me its even more frustrating when you live 40 minutes from the border and still can’t watch!

By: sadfasdf

sadfasdf — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:58:56 +0000

I think you should look at this site http://www.sdbear.net

By: Lynda Botez

Lynda Botez — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:24:55 +0000

who is doing the streaming?

I’ve been beta testing HULU for a few weeks now; this site is just simply amazing, that is all I can say.

There is wonderful content, excellent quality, and one you start using it you will get hooked.

Watching shows I never would have been able to see before, it’s just simply stunning.

this will be a great hit if they can handle the bandwith.

Wonder if Akamai is involved..

By: Torley

Torley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:22:53 +0000

I wonder what the relationship between Hulu.com and OPENHulu.com is? A few casual searches didn’t totally clear it up for me.

When I was @ Hulu, I liked the convenience, didn’t find the video quality to be stellar, and was surprised at how they didn’t have more episodes of Heroes.

@ben: Nice spontaneous use of screencasting! I’m a big fan of the “I’ll simply show you what it looks like for me” approach.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:07:51 +0000

Hey content providers, just provide full shows and it will be a success. Nobody wants to wait till 2am to watch shows on the TV as we are sleeeeeping!

Otherwise, i’ve got no other beef with Hulu.

By: Baal Manche

Baal Manche — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:56:25 +0000

I watch videos from hulu every now and then. I have a linux (ubuntu 7.10) machine, and I have some problems, maybe its just me.

First, when I go fullscreen, the menus do not respond well. If I want to pause, I have to put my mouse over the pause button for about 15seconds before it responds. Same with slider, volume, and regular screen options.

Second, after every breakpoints (I think its the point where ads appear during tv broadcast), the fullscreen disapppears and goes normal screen.

Third, its not an occasional problem, but when I watch more than 5 videos back to back, the computer hangs. I am guessing its hulu’s problem, because I have no problem with youtube or other video sites.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:33:05 +0000

site not working for me - can they REALLY handle the volume?

http://screencast.com/t/OR1zxr7hpK

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:10:05 +0000

yeah, hulu is great for catching up on shows or snl clips. Much much better than the networks own sites. It’ll be cool when they add sports and more films to hulu… Now they need a $50 hulu streaming box to hook up to the tv, so my parents and grandma could get into the hulu action. I have my laptop hooked up the the tv. It’s also possible that you could use a XBOX360, Wii or PS3 to access hulu in the future.

By: CBS

CBS — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0000

Go to Fancast by Comcast to view everything on Hulu and to catch CBS content too!

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:50:05 +0000

No CBS = No watch.

By: kuldeep

kuldeep — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:18:21 +0000

When its launching outside of US? Are planning for it?

By: Forumistan

Forumistan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:51:55 +0000

hulu is very nice. Thanks for the info.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:40:59 +0000

Hulu is a great site and I hope they keep allowing us to embed their content.
I just started my site http://www.thefirstseason.com and I enjoy all the great TV Show that I can add to my content.

Thanks Hulu

By: Richard K

Richard K — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:53:33 +0000

I just wish the pre-rolling Cisco ads weren’t so long!
INQdrop

By: John S.

John S. — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:47:43 +0000

I’m a fan and I hope they’re ready to scale. I’m half way through Arrested Development and I don’t want to have trouble with the site this week. I’m glad to see they’re adding more content providers too.

By: leila

leila — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:39:25 +0000

I’m generally a fan, but a little dismayed that the site isn’t functioning that well right now.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:19:53 +0000

I would love to join but “no international access” when there are plenty others who do offer international access means they have lost one potential visitor. As I am not the only person living “internationally”, you can multiply this a million fold easily… lots of $$$ is being left on the table due to lack of foresight that not the entire world lives in North America. This isn’t all Hulu’s fault, international distributors, contracts etc dealing with production have got to join the “net age” before they are left in the same plight as the music industry. On the bright side, this is great indirect advertising for youtube!

Jon
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