Wed 12 Mar 2008
Today marks the open launch of Hulu, NBC Universal and News Corporation’s joint venture to bring much of their programming to the web. The site offers more than 250 current and older TV series and over 100 full-length movies.
I love Hulu for several reasons. For one, it continues the availability of true "on demand" by making my favorite shows available through the web. It puts yet another nail in the coffin of the dinosaur that is your modern set-top box. That’s not to say that Comcast and Time Warner will go away. It just means that they have to get out of their own way and expedite out how to enable true web like functionality from the set top box.
What’s the other thing I like about Hulu? Absolutely no attempt to clutter the application with over the top design or random features. In fact, the design is almost amateurish and very simple - just the videos. I’m sure they will add features as they go but I hope the simplicity WAS by design and not for lack of time.
The image quality is not the best but it’s the web and things can only get better.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:04 am
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March 12th, 2008 at 8:43 am
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