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Hulu for iPad Likely to Be a Paid Subscription Service
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I would prefer like a one time $50 fee instead of a small amount per month or year. I would hope that a paid iPad version of Hulu on the ipad would also be add free. Not like im buying an ipad anyway, but maybe (hopefully) it would come to the iphone.
This sounds like an epic fail on Hulu's part. Hardly anybody will buy this if it's still free on a computer.
If you're gonna charge for content that was free, you gotta throw customers a bone. Some episodes of classic shows could be offered for free and pay for some newer shows. Or maybe just the two most recent episodes are free, but older episodes are charged.
If you're gonna charge for content that was free, you gotta throw customers a bone. Some episodes of classic shows could be offered for free and pay for some newer shows. Or maybe just the two most recent episodes are free, but older episodes are charged.
The posts here haven't yet disabused you of that notion?
Who is doing that? My point is that their stance is entirely plausible and reasonable, not inerrant.
When Flash crashes and (used to) take out Safari, that's Adobe's problem, and they haven't seemed particularly keen to fix it. When a website doesn't work, that's a (less fatal) common problem, for different combinations of browsers and sites, for millions of individual site owners; those owners may be more inclined to fix it if it impacts enough of their customers. Yes, they both "reflect poorly" on Safari, but the scales of these two, both the problem and the solution, are entirely different. The first is "easily fixable": get rid of Flash.
How would they even monitor it? When a site doesn't work, people just go elsewhere. When Flash crashes, Apple (optionally) gets a crash report. And you keep saying "arbitrary" -- it is not.
Hulu has already mentioned on more than one occasion that a subscription service, most likely tiered, will probably happen in addition to the free access people are getting now. AFAIK no details have been talked about but it seems like it will happen eventually.
And you would be correct. What advertisers will pay for web ads is much, much smaller than what they will pay for broadcast or cable ads. Broadcast ads pay for the production of all the content on Hulu yet the ads on Hulu can't even cover the costs to merely streaming the content. As much as people want to complain about 'old media' it is the old media that is by and large subsidizing the existence of new media (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, IMO).
Lethal
Screw you hulu
If hulu charges on iPad they will get no users. Then they will charge across the platform so people might actually use it and they can get money. If they charge across the platform, they will fail and have no users. The point of hulu is to be free. Greed better not change this. Or I will be a happy boycot with almost everyone else. Actually, I wont be happy, I will be a mad boycot. Also, like sombody else said. If they charge users, they should expect to have no commercials, but that wont happen cus they will only lose money. SO SCREW YOU HULU
If hulu charges on iPad they will get no users. Then they will charge across the platform so people might actually use it and they can get money. If they charge across the platform, they will fail and have no users. The point of hulu is to be free. Greed better not change this. Or I will be a happy boycot with almost everyone else. Actually, I wont be happy, I will be a mad boycot. Also, like sombody else said. If they charge users, they should expect to have no commercials, but that wont happen cus they will only lose money. SO SCREW YOU HULU
If hulu charges on iPad they will get no users. Then they will charge across the platform so people might actually use it and they can get money. If they charge across the platform, they will fail and have no users. The point of hulu is to be free. Greed better not change this. Or I will be a happy boycot with almost everyone else. Actually, I wont be happy, I will be a mad boycot. Also, like sombody else said. If they charge users, they should expect to have no commercials, but that wont happen cus they will only lose money. SO SCREW YOU HULU
Why is it whenever someone tries to make their service break even, people claim it is "greed?" Greed is insisting on receiving a valuable service for free, even if it means the service is not sustainable and thus won't last long before going out of business.
Hmm....
HP Slate = Flash, Free Hulu, Multitasking, Regular 3G Sim card slot, Access to any application (No authoritarian app store review process), Less than $629 price tag, etc.
HP Slate = Flash, Free Hulu, Multitasking, Regular 3G Sim card slot, Access to any application (No authoritarian app store review process), Less than $629 price tag, etc.
This thread is pure awesome.
Either people are preaching:
"Apple has created a great ecosystem, where users can easily buy services and companies can do business and generate revenue in an awesome way!"
Along comes Hulu's plan to charge:
"OMG, they try to demand money! I'm out! How dare they!"
Please, keep it coming,
Either people are preaching:
"Apple has created a great ecosystem, where users can easily buy services and companies can do business and generate revenue in an awesome way!"
Along comes Hulu's plan to charge:
"OMG, they try to demand money! I'm out! How dare they!"
Please, keep it coming,
Man have you ever heard of a vga cable? If you have a Mac - buy a mini display port and vga cable and plug it into your tv. If you have a pc, just buy the vga cable. Bam, now you have hulu on your tv.
[sarcasm]WOW! $30/month for a subscription to the New York Times and now a paid subscription for Hulu. Wow, this iPad just keeps gettting better and better! I'm just soooo glad Apple isn't about "money, money, money" first.[/sarcasm]
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I think even if Hulu charged a fee people would still pay for the service. If someone wants something bad enough and warrants use of it they will pay for it.
I pay $135 a month to have my 40Mbps Internet and HD Cable. I use it enough to warrant the charge for it.
Just like I am debating on whether to get 3G on the iPad or not. Not sure if I would even use the 3G at all. WiFi would seem just fine for me. Got to way the pros and cons.
I pay $135 a month to have my 40Mbps Internet and HD Cable. I use it enough to warrant the charge for it.
Just like I am debating on whether to get 3G on the iPad or not. Not sure if I would even use the 3G at all. WiFi would seem just fine for me. Got to way the pros and cons.
why? when you can take advantage of apple sheep? fanbois will buy anything apple, then try and ghetto rig the product to do what they want it too, they will pay through the nose for regular functionality.
lol why would i would buy so many stupid adapters?
Atom/ION Nettop, HDMI >> TV (this gets you 7.1 audio and 1080p)
Not everyone might have your setup.
I myself would not own one of those NetBooks. They are garbage and useless. *My Opinion*
Thats a tough one, paid service for ipad but free for anyone else.
You can watch hulu with an xbox or ps3 using any one of a number of free media server or some pay ones. Playon for instance.
So unless hulu blocks these services or apple blocks apps that can access them than its going to be a tough sell.
btw: I watch hulu on my iphone now, its pretty cool
Isn't Apps like that against Hulus policy? I am not sure, I thought I saw someone post that it is.
I know I used Playon back in it's beta testing and tried Hulu out with it. Watched a few TV episodes when I didn't have cable.
I seen this coming from a mile away. I do hope they implement a tier based pay service but still have a free service with ads and lower video quality.
But i wont be getting a iPad, never planed on it either.
But i wont be getting a iPad, never planed on it either.
Precisely..
I could never understand the "plugin" crap when Apple is always pushing me crap I don't wan't on my Windows box. (iPhone Tool, Safari, Bonjour, 100 MB update every time a new icon is added to iTunes, etc...) and the fact that iTunes and Safari are themselves "resource hogs" on Windows.
I love Apple as much as the next guy here but I'll be damned if I can't criticize what I consider to be some of the company's worst decisions since 1999.
FWIW - The Flash plugin install is 1.83 Mb.
Err, iTunes 9, as far as I know is still Carbon.
Meanwhile:
"Following Apple’s lead of dropping the ageing PowerPC architecture for Snow Leopard, Adobe have outlined its plans for a PPC-free future in a recent blog entry. The next iteration of its Creative Suite, popular among designers and the like, will not only be going Intel-only, but will also be rewritten in Cocoa for 64-bit native support"
And people are accusing Adobe of being lazy...
Once again, it seems to me that it is Apple who doesn't want to collaborate with Adobe to get Flash running how it should on the iPad, not the other way around. In fact, Apple has been making sure that such collaboration will be impossible if we consider the way that they have been insulting Adobe in the last few years/months.
I'm not paying period. Why is free content now need to be paid for because its mobile.
1) the content owners may not have granted a license for mobile streaming
2) Hulu needs to make money somehow, and advertising ain't gonna cut it.