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As soon as my Directv contract ends next month, I'm switching to Hulu Plus on my PS3 combined with free OTA with an antennae for live events. May even pick up a Tivo for recording OTA but no cable.

This should save me a heck of a lot of money!
 
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.

HD files are nomally smaller then SD files because of better compression. I don't think the avg tv show would be 1GB per hour.
 
I love when the cry babies come from under their rocks to cry about a tiny sum of $10/month. LOL cheapos', by hundred, maybe thousand dollar products like iPhones, Blu Ray, PS3 360, etc....and you moan about $10/month....such little kids, I love the laughs. Thanks!
 
The app is out already http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?mt=8

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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... :cool:

Watching live sports is the only reason I started my DirectTV subscription. After I moved this last time, I went a year without any kind of TV service. I was able to get all the normal programming through other avenues such as Hulu, channel web sites, etc. But trying to get sports all online was a pain in the neck. Eventually, I caved and got the sat subscription.

I think Hulu is going to have some problems with this plan. It is difficult to take something from free to paid. Had they started off pay, then introduced something like "Hulu Lite" that is free and ad supported, I believe it would work better. I have fallen victim to this. A prime example is the iStat Menu app. It was free, then I got a notice stating that the new version is now a paid app. Even though I like the app, and logically I know the developers need to get paid (and I want them to get paid for a nice app), my first reaction was something like "Paid? HA! No way am I paying for this!"
 
If. at some point i can get all my shows on there (Showtime & HBO included) $10-20 a month is a **** ton cheaper then what i'm paying now... So.. i'm in like flynn
 
I just downloaded the app and it looks pretty nice, the free videos worked fairly well. I just don't think I could justify $10 a month just to watch hulu on my iPad/iPhone.

Yes there is more content but the tv shows I watch are in HD with our HD tv tuner, and I already have netflix for streaming movies and older tv shows.

It just seems like paying for the same content again. Plus it still has ads....At $4.99 per month I might consider it but at $9.99 I just would not use it enough.

Possibly when it is available on the Xbox 360 it might be worth it to me, but not in its current state.
 
HD files are nomally smaller then SD files because of better compression. I don't think the avg tv show would be 1GB per hour.

Wait what ???

if that was the case then why are we not using DVD disks for HD movies ?

I love when the cry babies come from under their rocks to cry about a tiny sum of $10/month. LOL cheapos', by hundred, maybe thousand dollar products like iPhones, Blu Ray, PS3 360, etc....and you moan about $10/month....such little kids, I love the laughs. Thanks!

So your calling the people that cant really afford the extra $10 a month cheapos, i only pay for internet (not cable TV), Car insurance, Rent for apartment, Food, Electric, Gas, Water, Garbage, Renters insurance, Gas for car, or other Needed Things. It all adds up at the end of the month.

I had to buy most of my stuff by saving up to buy it, or by using my income tax check to buy it outright.

Not everyone has access to the job you have.
 
Here is the difference --

Ads in a magazine or newspaper, and some DVDs, I can easily skip over. However ads in Hulu are locked.

exactly! magazine ads never bothered me because i can simply flip the page. movie previews on DVDs are providing some entertainment value AND you can skip over them. on hulu, you either watch it with [very long] ads or not at all.

also, dvd and magazine ads do not eat up my bandwidth, for which i'm paying for too!

this is plain greedy. $10/month isn't the cheapest subscription either - it should definitely not be ad-supported.

suddenly, getting tv shows from itunes seems like a bargain...
 
Enjoy your HD content on your phone!

You may not want it on your phone, but it would be nice on the computer and TV. From what I understand, free hulu wont offer as much HD content as Hulu Plus.

You quoted me but still missed my point. Hulu Plus is a premium service, and the iPhone/iPad Apps are just one of the features included. You even missed my statement that I'm in Canada, so I can't enjoy Hulu on my phone, HD or otherwise.
 
I love when the cry babies come from under their rocks to cry about a tiny sum of $10/month.

People are complaining about the ADS. I don't see why that's so hard to figure out. I'd be willing to pay more for the service if it were ad free. Free with ads is acceptable, so is paid without, where people draw the lines is paying AND ads.

And no, I don't have cable for that very reason.

I wonder if they'll add a top tier without ads, and if they did what would it cost...


You pay $50 at least for cable, with 10 times the ads.

Speak for yourself. I sure don't.
 
this is actually triple-billing, and i can't believe you guys are really thinking you would pay for this!

what kind of jobs do you people have that you can afford a 100-150 dollar a month phone bill, a 50-70 dollar a month internet bill, (which probably includes some form of TV that will carry most of what is on hulu), and then pay 10 bucks a month for hulu, and STILL have to watch ads?

I can barely use hulu at it's current resolution because i don't have 20 mb internet at home...are you guys going to upgrade your internet plans to support 720p streaming? or are you going to wait 5 minutes for hulu to buffer so you can get your premium hd video, and then wait while the absurdly loud commercials play?

I'll be surprised if they have even 20,000 paid subscribers by christmas.

You make a good point, which is why I don't pay that much for utilities.
No home phone.
Cell service is $100/mo for two phones, but work reimburses my $30/mo data plan.
$55/mo for 20+Mbps down/5Mbps up Internet service.
No cable service.
$18/mo Netflix.
So, cost to me is $143/mo for media utilities.
Chances are good I would pay $10/mo for the majority of TV content I'd be interested in, even with a few minutes of ads.

It is way crazy how much cable TV can cost.
 
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.

"Nielsen’s Anywhere Anytime Media Measurement initiative (A2/M2) – show that the average American watches approximately 153 hours of TV every month at home"

153 * 2GB for every hour is 306 GB of data. So yes, I do believe that some people will find issues with Comcast's cap on internet data.

I estimated 2GB using my most recent downloads from iTunes as reference. Cars was 1.78GB and is 1 hour and 56 min. Monsters Inc was 1.39 and is 1 hour and 32 min.
 
When are new shows available? The night they are broadcast or the next day?
 
No way, not paying for something and then have ads in it. No-sir-re. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in Hulu, no siree.....






/sarcasm
 
Hulu on the iPad=awesome!

Can't wait and I am more then willing to pay 10 bucks a month even with the ads. I think it is a great service with pretty solid video quality.

Hulu on the Xbox360, can't wait!
 
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