Comments on: Hulu: pay for TV shows, watch them in your browser window, NBC profits

By: fibro

fibro — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:16:24 +0000

haha, hulu is perfect!!

By: Jonathan Harper

Jonathan Harper — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:27:22 +0000

Feel stupid yet? Hulu is set to reach $180 million in revenue next year… which means its ad revenue will match YouTube. I watched all three seasons of Arrested Development for the low low price of free. I had never seen Arrested Development before… 3 15-30 second commercials per show… and you get to pick when you watch!! How is that anything like regular TV… that’s better than Tivo even if ads are removed. Why? Because you don’t have to tell Tivo to record anything, everything is instantly available. How long does it take you to fast forward through commercials with your Tivo? 15 seconds? If so you should have just watched the one commercial on Hulu. We all want more on-demand, and less commercials… Hulu was just the innovative service we all wanted, and yet you still bemoaned its existence. Feel silly yet?

By: ranchy

ranchy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:48:18 +0000

Your premise doesn’t pass the acid test young man. Firstly, I’m hetero, don’t posses/use/borrow even look at anything that makes Steve Jobs some more money…ever notice the rainbow on the Apple logo. That stuff is for fanboys..like here and gizmodo.

I pay nothing for Hulu…as they say “yer doin it wrong”.
The ads are realatively mimimal…not as minimal as when some kind soul has cropped them out of a DVR recording and put a torrent up for it…but then I don’t wait for it, or have to worry about the Content owners suing me. The Hulu site itself has no ads. It’s not occurred to you that with Digital Broadcast TV mandatory in 8 months, and more InnerWeb options (dare I say like Hulu) cable TV is showing its wear and the Internet its ware. Hulu is far better “all around” than the other options. Hulu would have been spectactular in say the early part of this decade….and Al Gore would have been sucking right up to the Tech Companies and kicking the media companies in the ass to get on board. These seeds WERE planted in the Clinton era. In the Lil Bush era we’ve stepped 1 step forwards and 4 steps backwards in so many aspects of America…especially technology. How’s that Broadband Rural Cooperative (much like the original electricity cooperatives) that Candidate Bush touted in 1999 coming along….guess he’ll get that off the ground mostly completed in the next 7 months. So get off Hulu, dude. Yes it’s put on by media corps. Hell you probably have a myspace page (and Rupert Murdock) makes a penny every time some idiot hits the myspace.com domains. Learn to pick your battles grasshopper, and bet yet, learn there’s far more that you don’t understand than you do.

By: Gale Teschendorf

Gale Teschendorf — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:19:42 +0000

Hulu has free content and rents movies and shows.
Who would have thought that Blockbuster would last this long renting movies that will be free on TV in a couple of years.
I see Hulu succeeding with the ads in free content and instant movie rentals. Who will pay for cable TV when you can get it free. Hopefully, many more companies will push the Hulu concept and force Hulu to lower the prices on paid shows and movies.

By: Slickwilly

Slickwilly — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:02:10 +0000

Hey Don Bowman,

I’d seriously like to hear how you figure hulu “will” work? I’d have to agree with Nicholas Deleon on this one - Hulu is a laden with Ads website, that is trying to sell you content that is laden with ads, and isn’t portable. The content also expires That is not a business model I’d put my 10,000 grand bet on.

As Nicholas mentioned, if you have a TV and/or Tivo, you’re going to watch it at home. What does Hulu do that your TV/Tivo combo doesn’t do for you already? And will hulu content go on an IPOD or other portable device? It doesn’t look like it will.

That’s a deal killer for millons of people.

HULU is a greed inspired, quickly created idea that was not thought out properly. Based on past experience with other business models - Hulu is doomed to fail. “How Long before it fails?” is about the only question that is up for debate.

By: QwalityGuy

QwalityGuy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:16:42 +0000

Don’t we have alternatives besides the iTunes model? NBC/Universal is restricting their customers, but at least there are third party solutions that will allow you to wirelessly stream Hulu and similar content from your PC to your TV. That way, you won’t have to form a huddle in the home office to enjoy the shows with someone else. Plus you’d have the freedom to watch anything available via the Internet at any time.

This, for example: http://www.internetvue.com/iv2020.htm

By: Don Bowman

Don Bowman — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:34:59 +0000

So you don’t think hulu Will make it.
Oh how I wish I could make a wager with you.In fact, I challenge you to put up $10,000 at escrow .com and I’ll do the same.If in two years Hulu tanks, I”ll gladly pay. If they are indeed successful, you pay me.
I’d like you to tell us why Hulu won’t make it.
Specifically, why it won’t work? From a business reason, or a content reason or a marketing reason or a distribution or a financial reason. Come on, tell us!
Not just another lame blog rant.
Hey, how about this? If by some small miracle Hulu does make it, how about you quit writing this blog forever? No? I didn’t think so.
You’ll say “I knew they would make it big”
It’s too bad that blogs like yours don’t ever have to stand up to scrutiny, like the real press. It’s obvious by your comments that you don’t even have a rudimentary knowledge of business. Uninformed opinions are like an anus, everybody has one.
I strongly doubt you’ll leave this comment up for long, if at all.
Let me know about that wager.

By: Ginzoepix

Ginzoepix — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:55:40 +0000

Yes, I have to agree on this, they want to charge for something you can get free online. What they need to do is offer something similar to what you can get free online and put in a little advertisement. Sites like freetvsearch.com will always be much more popular than Hulu, even with just as crappy of a name.