A new "lean back viewing experience" for Windows and Mac frees Hulu from the confines of your Web browser
Posted 05.29.2009 at 12:25 pm
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Hulu Desktop
Hulu has been deemed the way forward for television on the Web since it started serving on-demand episodes on hulu.com a little over a year ago. But now, a new desktop app brings us all closer to the what-we-want (and only what-we-want), when-we-want-it future of Internet TV.
It helps a lot that the free Hulu Desktop app is beautifully designed in every way. It's intended to be operated with a remote (either the little white Apple Remote or any Windows Media Center compatible one), and the interface is perfectly intuitive--browsing shows, scrubbing through an episode with a nifty pop-up still, seeing recommendations and even rating and queuing shows to your own Hulu account are all possible with a few button presses.
Hulu Desktop Interface:
It's not quite the pay-for-only-the-20-channels-I-actually-watch cable plan that I've always wanted, but if you've got a computer in the living room hooked up to your TV or a nice widescreen monitor in the bedroom, your on-demend TV and movie options just got a lot more fun.
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from coral gables, fl
Sweet deal. Way better than pay-for-only-the-20-channels-I-actually-watch cuz you can actually decide to watch something new once in a while.
Hulu is a awsome website!
I have been using Hulu for a while to watch tv. I hooked up a converter to watch it on my TV. I wrote a blog post "Kiss That Cable Company Good-bye" about it here:
www.thisholdsmyattention.com/?p=57
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is there any truth to the rumor HULU will find a way to charge us ?
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probably, i envision a "premium" commercial free version for $x.95 per month. I don't mind the ads. Not always what you see on tv anyway.
Hulu is a great source of the weekly series, after the conversion to digital over the airwaves. Many people in rural areas can't get as many stations since they converted to UHF, which is pretty much line of site.
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The HULU is not the future. With LightPeak technology from Intel, it will become possible to broadcast in HD quality over the internet and watch right through your browser's window. The future is not after the on demand services, but after the actual online TV broadcasting live and nonstop, such as www.watch--tv-online.com and online 3D television.
Igor Vishnevskiy
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