Comments on: Hulu Gears up for Launch

By: TV Paradise Down, OPENHulu Not Updating « NewTeeVee

TV Paradise Down, OPENHulu Not Updating « NewTeeVee — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:00:51 +0000

[...] site full of ads to make a little scratch off the endeavor. But with Hulu coming out of closed beta this month, both sites were living on borrowed time anyway. Heck, OPENhulu had already received a [...]

By: Instant Hulu with Splashtop | On Top of Splashtop

Instant Hulu with Splashtop | On Top of Splashtop — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:16:19 +0000

[...] via your web browser – the Splashtop Browser is no exception. If you want to read more about Hulu, here’s a great article that talks about how Hulu is coming out of Beta and going international [...]

By: Hulu Gears up for Launch

Hulu Gears up for Launch — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:28:32 +0000

[...] Hulu Gears up for Launch – NewTeeVee With “hundreds of thousands” of users in its private beta and three times the amount of content it had at launch, Hulu is readying itself to open to the public in the next two months. [...]

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:45:02 +0000

Someone just asked me if Eric spoke about Hulu's plans to add more HD content. He did, so I figured I'd post here in case other people have the same question.

Eric said they expect to continue to add HD content over this year. They are going to start offering both HD versions and non-HD versions of shows and movies when they can. They don't expect this to be accessible to a large part of their audience, though, because of hardware and bandwidth requirements.

By: Hulu launch slated for end of March - Lost Remote TV Blog

Hulu launch slated for end of March - Lost Remote TV Blog — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:42:16 +0000

[...] The NBCU-News Corp. video joint venture Hulu.com is currently running in private beta with “hundreds of thousands” of users, says CTO Eric Feng. And while fresh video is hard to find because of the writers strike, Feng told NewTeeVee that the demand for archived shows has spiked (I’ve been watching old Arrested Development shows on Hulu lately). The full launch is scheduled sometime in March. Lots more details and a video interview here. [...]

By: Brian Andrews

Brian Andrews — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:34:37 +0000

Liz: Actually I love them–big iMovie fan here! Sorry if that comment sounded negative. Keep up the good work.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:16:37 +0000

Yeah Frank, I think that is pretty interesting too. Couple notes from what Eric said about that:

Hulu wrote a crawler specifically for other networks' sites
They want to be THE place to go to watch TV online so they're OK with pointing people off-site
They look at their top 500 search terms every day and make sure they have results for them

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:40:25 +0000

As an early adopter, but not a technical genius, I love the service and watch it practically every day. Firefly was a known show to me but I had only seen Serinity on HBO. I watched all the episodes in 2 weeks. Great service. I just wish the full screen quality could warrant me putting it on my 52 inch. Quality just isn’t there yet for full screen viewing.

By: Hulu van NBC en NewsCorp komt uit Beta test en binnenkort naar Europa | zoomz - Alles over internetvideo

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:05:17 +0000

[...] gezegd en geschreven over Hulu, de content en de opzet van de site, maar NewTeeVee heeft nog een interview met CTO Eric Feng (embedded na de [...]

By: Hulu Preps for Launch: Video and Beta Invites - GigaOM

Hulu Preps for Launch: Video and Beta Invites - GigaOM — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:06:09 +0000

[...] it. Hulu provided 2000 invites to GigaOM Network readers at this link. For the full story, head to NewTeeVee. Hulu is expected to launch before the end of March. Share/Send Sphere Print Previous [...]

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:02:39 +0000

What about the fact that they are crawling ABC and CBS content as part of Hulu.com? When I searched for “Lost” on Hulu, I actually got a hulu.com Lost page (and they even used the images from abc.com). Of course, when you go to play an episode, it links to abc.com. Not the greatest experience, but I can have all of the other functionality – add to playlist, RSS feed, etc.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:08:13 +0000

Oh Brian, you don’t like my titles?

By: Brian Andrews

Brian Andrews — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:00:54 +0000

Man, is everyone doing online video using iMovie ‘08?

By: Matt Hendry

Matt Hendry — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:52:37 +0000

As for platforms beyond the PC browser thats in the Hands of Abode who have yet to release the flash 9 SDK for Devices although HULU could develop a flash Lite version .

Thant brings us back to NewTeeVees latest obsesion Will it work on the Wii ??? That would take an update by Nintendo to make that happen and how many Wii users actually pay $5 for the Browser .

HULU would be better off developing their own Williwear Channel and have it ad supported and connected to peoples TVs ....maybe a HD Wii needs to come out before that is a reality.

Im still waiting for a Joost Channel on the Wii after a harassing their developers and executives for a year year , so here's hope that some streaming Ad supported service will take notice of the opportunity the Wii presents with it large install base and goes with it in 2008 .