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  • Xbox 360 to add Hulu?

    Xbox 360 to add Hulu?

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    From DVR to On-Demand, more and more TV viewers are choosing when they get to watch their favorite programs. The greater question has been how you’ll be able to get all the other content to your screen — stuff like Netflix and Hulu. If you have an Xbox, the latter problem may be a thing of the past.

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  • Fox Mobile launches Bitbop beta, a Hulu for your phone

    Fox Mobile launches Bitbop beta, a Hulu for your phone

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    While Hulu might be missing out on the mobile space due to licensing issues, Fox Mobile-backed Bitbop is looking to step in and take the reins. The app, currently in beta and available only for select BlackBerry devices, has 25 content partners including Fox (of course), CBS, NBC, and Comedy Central. It's said to work over WiFi or even 3G data connections and is free so far, though a section in the FAQ intimates that Fox will also launch a premium plan with "unlimited, full-length, network TV shows with no commercial interruptions" for $10 a month, and mobile movie rentals are also apparently on the way. And never fear, Android and iPhone lovers -- mocoNews reports that apps for your smartphone of choice are coming, too. Let's hope Fox gets it working on Froyo, before Hulu kills that workaround.

    Fox Mobile launches Bitbop beta, a Hulu for your phone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 May 2010 21:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • How to get Hulu running on Android 2.2, for now

    How to get Hulu running on Android 2.2, for now

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1. A perfect combination for combination for a little Hulu on the go, right? Not quite, as Hulu has decided to block videos (for legal reasons) when it detects a mobile device, but it turns out there is a surprisingly simple workaround. As Absolutely Android explains, all you have to do is make Hulu think you're using a desktop browser, which can be done simply by entering "about:debug" in the address bar and switching the UAString setting from Android to desktop. The only downside to the trick is that you'll now also get the full desktop version of the Hulu site (and any other site, until you switch it back), and there's a better than decent chance that Hulu will close this loophole before you can finish your first episode of Kojak.

    How to get Hulu running on Android 2.2, for now originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 12:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Freeloaders rejoice: Hulu will be free for a while longer

    Freeloaders rejoice: Hulu will be free for a while longer

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    While the LA Times noted that Hulu would soon be offering Hulu plus by May 24, the $10 will apparently not be rolled out by next Monday, thus allowing you unfettered access to the intellectual produce of thousands of studio employees for a least a few more months. As you recall, Hulu Plus: … will be the [...]

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  • Hulu not switching to HTML 5 for the iPad

    Hulu not switching to HTML 5 for the iPad

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    VP Eugene Wei might have overstepped recently when he posted to the Hulu company blog that they are looking at HTML 5, but don't expect it to meet their needs any time soon. This is disappointing to iPad users since the current Hulu player won't work for them.

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  • Hulu will offer $10 Hulu Plus service

    Hulu will offer $10 Hulu Plus service

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    It seemed like only yesterday that Joost and Hulu were seen as also-rans. Surprisingly, the latter online video streaming service has taken off and is now offering a $10 per month “plus” service and will be rolling it out to select markets by May 24. The LA Times writes that the service will offer a “more [...]

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  • Maybe Hulu is right to block Boxee?

    Maybe Hulu is right to block Boxee?

    Posted on February 6, 2010 | No Comments
    If I may, I'd like to play devil's advocate to something I wrote a few days ago. To quickly summarize, Boxee took issue with NBCU's Jeff Zucker's characterization that Boxee was some sort of rogue piece of software, and that Hulu is in the right whenever it blocks access to the XBMC-derived media player. How about this: maybe Hulu is right to block Boxee? Let's see where this takes us.

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  • Boxee responds to NBC’s Jeff Zucker’s misleading statements to Congress re: Hulu-Boxee relationship

    Boxee responds to NBC’s Jeff Zucker’s misleading statements to Congress re: Hulu-Boxee relationship

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    The world's worst manager, Jeff Zucker, who just so happens to be the president of NBC Universal, was on Capitol Hill today trying to persuade lawmakers to allow the proposed merger with Comcast go through. Interesting to note his take on Boxee's relationship with Hulu, which, you'll recall, has been something of a mess. Boxee adds Hulu compatibility, Hulu breaks said compatability, Boxee re-works its code so that Hulu works again, Hulu breaks compatability again, etc. And on and on and on.

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  • Legend of Zelda cartoons now on Hulu

    Legend of Zelda cartoons now on Hulu

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Whelp! There goes everyone’s Friday. You can now catch 13 episodes of The Legend of Zelda on Hulu (if you’re in the US). You’ll recall that the show ran every Friday on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and, for many of us, eclipsed the actual Mario episodes in coolness. The episodes are 15 minutes long. [...]

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  • Boxee + Clicker = so close, yet so far

    Boxee + Clicker = so close, yet so far

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    I don't watch a lot of television programming, and I'm not particularly patient with the way "Big Media" treats me, the consumer. I really wanted to like Flash Forward, but it's pretty clear that the show is more interested in hitting that 100 episodes mark to earn syndication than it is in delivering an interesting, gripping story. So I gave up on that, and on a lark decided to try Fringe, to kill some time. Unfortunately, Hulu doesn't have the beginning of the series, let alone the beginning of the current season. I'm not excited about jumping into the show midstream. I'm also not interested in navigating the various network websites to find their hosted copies of the shows I might watch. Isn't that what Hulu was supposed to do for me? Enter Clicker.com. "Clicker aims to become the complete programming guide to Internet television." Indeed, they have an impressive catalog of more than 400,000 television episodes from 7,000 different shows, not to mention movies and original web content. They've been around for awhile, but today they're unveiling their new Boxee app, allowing you to access their impressive catalog of content from within Boxee.

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  • Yikes: Hulu flirts with, yes, having you pay to watch it.

    Yikes: Hulu flirts with, yes, having you pay to watch it.

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Hey, remember Hulu.com? It was a Web site that sort of came out of nowhere, and offered streaming TV shows from NBC and other networks. It was ad-supported, and free. People liked it. And then, one day, in October, 2009, a completely bonkers TV executive all but killed it with one sentence: “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.”

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  • Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!

    Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    What's wrong with sites like Hulu? Well nothing, per se, except for the fact that they can't be used anywhere outside of the Unites States. As if other countries don't want to watch... um, really great shows like “Extreme Makeover” and “The [American] Office”! Perhaps that's why, then, BitTorrent site EZTV has seen traffic double, mainly from non-American IPs, in the past year? For whatever reason, people want to watch these shows, but since there's no legal outlet to do so, well, it's not exactly hard to configure uTorrent or Transmission, now is it?

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  • Media companies freaking out because they don’t know how measure TV ratings anymore

    Media companies freaking out because they don’t know how measure TV ratings anymore

    Posted on August 14, 2009 | No Comments
    So I read late last night that pretty much every TV show this summer has crashed and burned. You can attribute that any number of things. One, it's summer and no one watches TV then. Two, the shows were absolutely terrible. Three, maybe people were watching, but the proliferation of the likes of Hulu have totally messed with Hollywood's ability to actually count how many people watch its shows.

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