Sorry. Go back to start. Right now, you get significantly LESS content with Hulu plus, than regular Hulu.
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Sorry. Go back to start. Right now, you get significantly LESS content with Hulu plus, than regular Hulu.
As an Apple fan, I find your statement that "Apple fans are so annoying" offensive. I also find it to be true. Made me lol.
One very huge differentiator is that Netflix does not have current shows. For example, on Hulu Plus, you can watch the current season of The Office or Glee. You have to wait for it to come out on Netflix. Whether there is value in $8 for this is up to each consumer.
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I pay for netflix monthly because it does not have ads. I HATE ads. I would pay $15/mo for Hulu without ads and consider dropping netflix altogether if the movie selection was decent enough.
NO ADS ON HULU PLUS!!! Where is a petition I can sign? lol.
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I pay for netflix monthly because it does not have ads. I HATE ads. I would pay $15/mo for Hulu without ads and consider dropping netflix altogether if the movie selection was decent enough.
NO ADS ON HULU PLUS!!! Where is a petition I can sign? lol.
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Not sure. Never paid for cable so I have no idea. I was simply just giving my opinion on the pricing, nothing more.
Cable service + DVR means you can watch while skipping commercials. You can't skip the commercials with Hulu.
Netflix does have some relatively current shows, just not shows from the current season. Meanwhile, Hulu Plus has some current shows but not all of them by a long shot. They don't even have all the shows from NBC, which is their parent company.
There's no doubt that Netflix is working on getting more current TV content, and the overall higher quality of the Netflix service is what will give them the leverage to usurp Hulu in the long run.
Do you have cable or satellite? Yes? I rest my case.
I cant imagine paying for this OR a cable bill (both with ads as well!) when theres Netflix streaming and various free and legal sources (Hulu itself being my favorite).
I look at the small amount of content that Hulu Plus offers vs. regular Hulu, and its hard to justify $7.99 when I see how much content Netflix offers ad-free for $8.99 (and on iPad/iPhone as well).
But, its still a step toward better options in future, I hope. Hulu (free) is great for catching a missed episode so I dont have reason to abandon a show entirely!
I look at the small amount of content that Hulu Plus offers vs. regular Hulu, and its hard to justify $7.99 when I see how much content Netflix offers ad-free for $8.99 (and on iPad/iPhone as well).
But, its still a step toward better options in future, I hope. Hulu (free) is great for catching a missed episode so I dont have reason to abandon a show entirely!
To elaborate on your your statement, my assumption about Netflix (without intimate knowledge of their contracts), is that their contracts allow them to stream their DVD catalog commercial free. This catalog includes television shows, older seasons, not current broadcast shows.
Hulu, however, fundamentally has a different business plan. Their contracts may be different, or it is just in their business plan to have advertising in their catalog.
For the model that we all want, I believe it will require a new company to be formed with that business plan. I haven't used Fancast (or the new xfinity on demand), and can't check it out at work, but a service like that provided by the cable company (that you would pay for regular tv as well) will be the closest thing we can get to free streaming.
Oh sweet!
Though I checked, but maybe I'm missing where it is on Netflix, but was looking for last night's Glee...my daughter really loves that program. Also, can't find the recent episodes of Modern Family and Cougar Town, nor last Saturday's SNL. That has to be on Netflix somewhere, right? I mean, since everyone is comparing Netflix and Hulu, they have to have the same content.
I mean, it couldn't be that each service has content the other doesn't have...that's just silly.
Advertisements are a necessity. Do any of you know how much it costs to produce broadcast content? I do I work in that industry. So many of you think its greed greed greed but its not. More things happen behind the scenes to secure rights to programing than you would think.
They are out of their minds, I will never pay them to allow me to use their service on my iPad/iPhone when it's free on my computer. It could be .99 a mth it's not the price that matters, why should i have to pay here but not there.
Will change again in the future
Hulu will change their business model again once Apple does something with their Data Center in North Carolina.
Would like to Appleapple house iTunes data in the cloud rather than locally.
Would be more green.
Only few servers spinning a disk than many with copies of the same program.
I would not need to continually by Terabyte drives to hold stuff I watch every two years.
Only if Google is not my future (ISP). Can see connection problems when streaming video from their competitorapple.
Hulu will change their business model again once Apple does something with their Data Center in North Carolina.
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apple house iTunes data in the cloud rather than locally.Would be more green.
Only few servers spinning a disk than many with copies of the same program.
I would not need to continually by Terabyte drives to hold stuff I watch every two years.
Only if Google is not my future (ISP). Can see connection problems when streaming video from their competitor
apple.
Price is getting better. Instead of buying two drinks from Starbucks during the month, I get a month of Hulu Plus. Doesn't seem like that much of a sacrifice.