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'Hulu Plus' Unveiled With Support for iOS Devices: $9.99 Per Month
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How many customers do you think the cable and satellite companies have at $100 a month or more with far more ads than Hulu? Your theory is obviously flawed.
Let's simplify the math and say 1GB per hour of high quality streaming. Actually, we'll be very generous and say 2GB per hour. That's still 25 hrs per week of streaming video, and another 50GB of misc. internet usage. You think people will go over that? Again, that's being generous. More realistically it's closer to double that.
Just as soon as Apple stops selling/renting video content in the iTunes Store.
One other point about this "OMG Hulu wants to charge you $10/mo for TV with ADS?!?" Here's another interesting fact about Hulu's commercial breaks:
Lost Final Episode on Cable TV: 2 hours 30 minutes. (including ads)
Lost Final Episode on Hulu: 1 hour 45 minutes. (including ads)
Yes they show you ads. But the ad breaks are so much shorter.
Lost Final Episode on Cable TV: 2 hours 30 minutes. (including ads)
Lost Final Episode on Hulu: 1 hour 45 minutes. (including ads)
Yes they show you ads. But the ad breaks are so much shorter.
Not everyone here pirates content Sonicwind.... not to mention the risk of downloading something malicious or of poor quality. 10 bucks a month is very reasonable... and how are you people so upset over like 2 minutes of commecial. Go take a piss or grab a mtn dew geez.
I agree with you.
I don't agree. Or at least they may need to give choices like $49.95 with no ads, $29.95 with limited ads, etc..... $9.99 with ads and wider selection isn't FAIL for some.
He means downloading them illegally. And when he says "Sign me up, I'm stupid." what he means is "Don't sign me up, I'm entitled to everything I want without having to pay anything for it."
In my case, that is correct. I pay for netflix (which is ad free), and if I am dying to watch something before it shows on netflix, i will use hulu or one of the other free (if not quite legal) ways of streaming tv shows that are out there. I will gladly watch ads if there is no cost to me; it's only fair that I pay for the content by watching the ad. That said, I don't think it is fair to charge me to watch ads.
No Flash and No Android.
Sounds great. Some people can probably cancel cable.
Believe it or not, in this area some nutty people pay > $200 a month just for fricken cable tv.
Apple sells media near break even, so Apple probably won't care. Studios do though.
Sounds great. Some people can probably cancel cable.
Believe it or not, in this area some nutty people pay > $200 a month just for fricken cable tv.
Apple sells media near break even, so Apple probably won't care. Studios do though.
That's an interesting question. I don't do either so I don't give it much thought. (Okay, Olympics and World cup would be two exceptions).
World Cup is available via live streaming. NBC blocked streaming of the Olympics, though.
We're probably all just screwed one way or another...
Yeah. Considering on all those other formats you don't actually watch or consume the ads except by choice.
Not to mention the fact that some of us who DO pirate content (
) dont always want to go through the hassle of doing so just to watch TV shows that we have no desire to keep permanently. I've watched many shows and movies on Netflix on my iPad that I would have never watched any other place or any other way. I'm sure that there will be TV shows on Hulu that I feel the same way about. NOT to mention IT'S 10 BUCKS!!!! Smoke 1 & 1/2 less cigarettes a day, or a smaller coffee each morning, or WHATEVER and you'll have the cash to pay for it.
There are a lot of naysayers, but to me it depends upon the content. If -- and I say if because I do not know if it will be the case-- the content is such that I can drop my premium cable channels and still see everything I would normally watch, then I would come out way ahead. Who cares if I see some episodes a few days after they air?--I time-shift almost everything I watch anyway.
This sort of thing--TV shows available directly to the viewer from the television studio via the Internet--is going to hurt the cable providers (who package TV channels and charge ever more exorbitant fees) and may ultimately be good for consumers.
This sort of thing--TV shows available directly to the viewer from the television studio via the Internet--is going to hurt the cable providers (who package TV channels and charge ever more exorbitant fees) and may ultimately be good for consumers.
This, too, presumes one pays for cable. I like it as a model INSTEAD of cable!
That is too bad. Hulu over Apple TV I would pay for with or without ads. They get content quicker and priced better if I just want to buy a few episodes. Dont think I have ever rented network TV on Apple TV but I did get a season of Mad Men once.
I'm not happy about this - as a NetFlix subscriber - this is just another way to skim money from us - If its ad supported I will not pay a thing!!!!
Put that in your cap and smoke it - Hulu.
Now with that said I do love the Free site Hulu.com and will continue to use it.
Put that in your cap and smoke it - Hulu.
Now with that said I do love the Free site Hulu.com and will continue to use it.
I pay $30-something a month for internet, and I've streamed HD before just fine. I DON'T have cable or satellite (too expensive). I could get this Hulu premium service AND Netflix for the cost of cable.
It's not for everybody, but it's not an outrageous cost.