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Hulu Sticking With Flash For Now, Says HTML5 Not Ready Yet
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I'm not defending gasoline, I'm saying it illustrates why a mass exodus from Flash won't be as easy as snapping your fingers. It's always the end user who has to pay for paradigm shifts. If thousands of companies will be forced to port billions worth of Flash material to HTML5/Canvas, they're not going to do it for free.
They go out of their way to get Proxy servers to stop working.
Flash being ready is highly debatable. It can't even be fully used in mobile space, while the currently frozen HTML5/CSS3 features can.
remember the days when hulu actually had decent content? I jail broke my apple tv because of huly, but haven't used hulu in months. They just aren't getting the programming anymore. They need to worry about becoming irrelevant just as much as flash does.
"Flash is a closed proprietary technology used to lock away media from users -- the exact opposite of open. Nothing exemplifies this more than Hulu, who are using Flash because it has been designed around proprietary DRM restrictions that prevent users from watching media -- that they pay for on their TVs -- wherever and however they want.
Google's embracing of Adobe and their closed technologies is both hypocritical and in fundamental opposition to Google's claimed goals of openness and transparency."
How was that?
This is unfortunate. I was looking forward to Hulu shows being available on iPad. If the sales momentum for iPad keeps on, Hulu will likely reevaluate their position sooner than later.
I've said it before. HTML5 is nowhere near primetime. Its a great start but it still has a long way to go and being forcefed something that isn't even a standard is a bit of a stretch.
Without DRM? I don't think so.
Or do you think Apple would offer movies without DRM (fairplay) via iTunes Store?
With IE not supporting HTML5 and IE having 60% marketshare, it would be crazy for Hulu to stop using Flash. Hulu can't say "use these browsers" because they have to cater for the lowest denominator of users - they would lose too many people.
Not forgetting DRM - which is probably dictated to them by the content providers.
HTML5 while good, isn't ready yet for prime time. That time will be nearer when IE9 arrives with HTML5 support - and thus available to the masses. Unfortunately the web has to cater also for the lowest denominator - the crap that is IE - that has the largest user base.
Not forgetting DRM - which is probably dictated to them by the content providers.
HTML5 while good, isn't ready yet for prime time. That time will be nearer when IE9 arrives with HTML5 support - and thus available to the masses. Unfortunately the web has to cater also for the lowest denominator - the crap that is IE - that has the largest user base.
And when that happens, Google/Apple/Mozilla will struggle with Microsoft trying to deface the standard.
Just as we have learned from gasoline, entrenched interests have zero interest in moving to technologies that might benefit their customers more. In fact, they will fight it tooth and nail.
Maybe you think things magically evolve themselves; they don't. Not when billions of dollars are involved. They only way the status quo changes -- and evolves and improves -- is for someone or something to bring pressure upon the industry or market in question. In this case, Apple is that force.
Are they doing it for the noble good of the bourgeois? Of course not. But they are the only ones pushing this shift right now, and I don't care what their motivations are as long as their end goals align with mine.
And when that happens, Google/Apple/Mozilla will struggle with Microsoft trying to deface the standard.
It will be the battle of the video codecs.
H.264 camp ( apple, microsoft et al ) vs Mozilla ( and others )
I wasn't talking about the video standard. I was talking about Microsoft's habit of trying to change standards.
with such a HUGE battle stewing I'm gonna guess that the MPEG group is going to make H.264 license fee free for ever.
Flash does not work on my macbook so how can you expect it to
be functional on the Iphone or Ipad. I try to watch V on Hulu and about a forth thru, usually after it breaks for the second commercial the audio dies. Restarting doesnt help. It happens everytime. So I end up just buying it from Itunes. If they had the option to purchase from the site I would think it was on purpose because it happens everytime!
Fix your macbook.
That's not up to hulu, it's up to the content providers like Universal, Fox, etc. And as others have pointed out, they will most likely make an app for Hulu.
And most likely, they want you to
(a) pay for the app
(b) pay a subscription fee for the pleasure of using it in app/mobile form
(c) sit through ads that you can't avoid
(d) data mine the crap out of everything on your mobile device
(e) all of the above.
Netflix had to make separate apps for the game consoles - and I think that Microsoft has the exclusive rights to running Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360 without requiring a disc in the drive. Given that Netlix uses silverlight, and that's Microsoft's baby, I understand why they would have locked Netflix into that.
Even then, Netflix has to follow the rules set by the movie studios about when they can rent movies in exchange for certain streaming rights. The content providers constantly provide very, very specific requirements for streaming video of any kind.
This is mildly disappointing, as it would be cool to have Hulu on my iPhone, but I didn't have a whole lot of hope for that anyway.
The problem with Hulu has always been that the TV and movie companies don't really get it, and they're constantly fighting against Hulu instead of allowing it to save their butts and help them move forward into the future. This isn't likely to change any time soon, and so Hulu will continue to be a disappointment.
Viacom already left, and at first I was upset, but then I realized that Viacom offers EVERY episode and clip of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report on their sites, and you can even link and embed them. Does Hulu do that? No.
I haven't gone back to Hulu in probably 6 months or so.
The problem with Hulu has always been that the TV and movie companies don't really get it, and they're constantly fighting against Hulu instead of allowing it to save their butts and help them move forward into the future. This isn't likely to change any time soon, and so Hulu will continue to be a disappointment.
Viacom already left, and at first I was upset, but then I realized that Viacom offers EVERY episode and clip of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report on their sites, and you can even link and embed them. Does Hulu do that? No.
I haven't gone back to Hulu in probably 6 months or so.