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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: thirsty moore on February 19, 2010, 01:06:16 pm
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What's so good about hulu? Most of the stuff they have are snippets of shows. Why does everyone swear by this?
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you can watch entire shows - maybe you're looking at the wrong shows? some shows have a mix of clips and complete episodes...
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If it's a current show they tend to only stream the five most recent episodes in their entirety
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Good for when you miss an episode of something and the DVR screws up...
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Good for when you miss an episode of something and the DVR screws up...
... or if you don't own a TV at all. online offerings (first and foremost hulu's) are such that we can follow several shows without spending $$$ on a tv, cable/dtv, etc.
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They have all of Speed Racer up minus one or two episodes.
Does anymore have to be said?
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Good for when you miss an episode of something and the DVR screws up...
... or if you don't own a TV at all. online offerings (first and foremost hulu's) are such that we can follow several shows without spending $$$ on a tv, cable/dtv, etc.
That's what we've been doing since losing our free cable.
Anyone know if they show the latest Mad Men online? My wife is going to be screaming for that when the next season starts.
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Also, does anybody know who still sell those converter thingies? I imagine with one of those, we can still watch "regular" tv without paying anything?
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just how do television companies (nbc/cbs/abc) make any money if they just give their shows away for free on the internet?
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just how do television companies (nbc/cbs/abc) make any money if they just give their shows away for free on the internet?
No doubt hulu pays fees to them.
I watch the shows on the abc/cbs/fox/tnt (don't have any nbc shows) websites and they all have commercials, albeit not as many as regular broadcasting.
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i believe nbc owns hulu
sorry, its a joint venture between nbc/news corp (fox) and disney (abc)
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Weren't those converter boxes free for a while?
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I don't get it either, it's just a central place to search (and view) for the show(s) you want. I've found most often the show you want to watch just sends you back to the particular network's / channel's web site for viewing.
I just use fastpasstv instead. I wish too that they kept more back episodes and a full length videos up. What I want is never there, and if I don't keep up week to week, it's gone.
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Weren't those converter boxes free for a while?
Yes, if you scored a government coupon. But at the time, I didn't think I was going to need one.
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Do you burn your garbage in a barrel in your backyard to save the cost of a trash service?
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Weren't those converter boxes free for a while?
Yes, if you scored a government coupon. But at the time, I didn't think I was going to need one.
I still haven't received my coupon. I tried to use the converter box, no dice. Opted to get cable+internet combo at a good price. Funny, I hardly watch TV and watch it online (no DVR).
Mad Men starts in August, not sure they have all episodes online at Hulu or what's the channel? TNT? or AMC?
Can't you stream or rent via Netflix. Can't believe you haven't watched the last season - so good!
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Do you burn your garbage in a barrel in your backyard to save the cost of a trash service?
Growing up we did. Until we accidentally burned down the outhouse and chicken coop and thought better of it. Then we just threw it all into the pickup and hauled it to the dump.
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Its a money saver if you don't want cable and just want to watch TV when you want to. Problem is that its very limited to what you can watch. I honestly enjoy it for the fact its available whenever you feel the need to check it out. As of now, I watch Burn Notice, Modern Family, Cougar Town, Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, The Cleaveland Show, and 30 Rock all on HULU. But like I said, it depends on what you want to see.
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Currently Season 2 of Arrested Development is up . . .which is nice
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Is Season 1 up? No? Well screw that then! What's the use?
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Anyone know if they show the latest Mad Men online? My wife is going to be screaming for that when the next season starts.
Idt so. AMC is really anal about letting out Mad Men and Breaking Bad. No streaming on their site (or any third party site I've seen), no "marathons" before the new seasons begin, and their VOD never has more then 3-4 episodes of Mad Men at a time, and never any Breaking Bad. I think they're trying to promote DVD/bluray sales.
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Is Season 1 up? No? Well screw that then! What's the use?
Season 1 was available until Jan. 10 . . .Season 2 is available until April then Season 3 . . .Lame that all 3 seasons aren't available all the time but its still cool to be able to rewatch the episodes that are there
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That said, Breaking Bad's an awesome show and I hope you all are going to watch it!!!
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That said, Breaking Bad's an awesome show and I hope you all are going to watch it!!!
Breaking Bad is the best; the new season starts next month.
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Its a money saver if you don't want cable and just want to watch TV when you want to. Problem is that its very limited to what you can watch. I honestly enjoy it for the fact its available whenever you feel the need to check it out. As of now, I watch Burn Notice, Modern Family, Cougar Town, Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, The Cleaveland Show, and 30 Rock all on HULU. But like I said, it depends on what you want to see.
So it's a time saver then too? (to have them all in one spot) Because you can watch the same shows at the network. I wanted to catch up on "Burn Notice" via Hulu but they don't have the entire season up right now. Hulu only shows what is currently offered / streamed by a network right? (FX doesn't show the entire season either and that is where Hulu links the stream)
I just go to some of the sites you all told me about a few months ago...they keep past seasons up.
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I recently canceled my cable and am relying on online streaming including Hulu, and so far I've got to say that overall that approach is not ready for prime time.... and probably will never be. It's hard to imagine the networks and cable channels going along with something that would eliminate a key revenue stream.
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My biggest beef with Hulu is they blocked streaming via PS3s in order to cave in the idiocy of the content providers who wanted their shows to be only seen on a computer via the service. See a PS3 is no-no since it's only attached to a TV, guess none of the studio morons have ever heard of a home theater computer. Sure was fun to hook my MacBook up to my TV and watch Hulu :)
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My biggest beef with Hulu is they blocked streaming via PS3s in order to cave in the idiocy of the content providers who wanted their shows to be only seen on a computer via the service. See a PS3 is no-no since it's only attached to a TV, guess none of the studio morons have ever heard of a home theater computer. Sure was fun to hook my MacBook up to my TV and watch Hulu :)
maybe they just don't want pimply faced virgin nerds who collect star wars lightsabers to watch hulu.
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Its a money saver if you don't want cable and just want to watch TV when you want to. Problem is that its very limited to what you can watch. I honestly enjoy it for the fact its available whenever you feel the need to check it out. As of now, I watch Burn Notice, Modern Family, Cougar Town, Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, The Cleaveland Show, and 30 Rock all on HULU. But like I said, it depends on what you want to see.
So it's a time saver then too? (to have them all in one spot) Because you can watch the same shows at the network. I wanted to catch up on "Burn Notice" via Hulu but they don't have the entire season up right now. Hulu only shows what is currently offered / streamed by a network right? (FX doesn't show the entire season either and that is where Hulu links the stream)
I just go to some of the sites you all told me about a few months ago...they keep past seasons up.
Thats where Hulu gets you. They'll post up the recent episodes of all shows that are in progress right now. But they will not give you entire seasons unless they have permission.
Now, if you want the full season of shows to watch, go to www.sidereel.com (http://www.sidereel.com). They've got it all so far from what I'm seeing.
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What. Is. Burn Notice? (http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/burn-notice-game-show/1199695/) (video)
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everyone is about to be missing something on hulu:
Hulu losing `Daily Show,' `Colbert Report'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100303/ap_en_tv/us_tv_hulu_comedy_central
luckily they're still available from the shows' websites, but i wonder what the back-story here is...
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Sorry folks. This site is useless.
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here, let me help you:
http://www.hulu.com/chuck
http://www.hulu.com/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart
http://www.hulu.com/the-colbert-report
http://www.hulu.com/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia
http://www.hulu.com/family-guy
http://www.hulu.com/lost
http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons
http://www.hulu.com/the-office-uk
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Sorry folks. This site is useless.
This is what I've been trying to say!
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here, let me help you:
(http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/7176/umad23xv.jpg)
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Sorry folks. This site is useless.
This is what I've been trying to say!
you can watch full episodes of current TV shows in high quality, on demand... how is that useless? (well, other than the obvious way that watching TV shows is useless... :P)
is there some major functionality missing for you? are you disappointed that you can only watch a certain number of shows on demand? does your hardware, software and/or internet connection not allow for decent performance?
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Listen man, who am I to judge if you want to watch clips from Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.
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lol.
you have figured out that they also offer full episodes, right?
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I've been experimenting with using Hulu in lieu of cable for a few months now, and so I'm able to offer some perspective.
If you like to watch a lot of "Family Guy," then yes, Hulu is the service for you.
I use it to watch Colbert and the Daily Show too -- which is great because I rarely watched those shows in real time anyway. If they lose those, I won't have much use for it. Yes, they offer full TV shows, but in my experience thus far, it's rarely the stuff I want to watch.
Microsoft's Media Center has a Hulu-like interface which also has a lot of similar stuff which I also have little interest in. It seems like all of these online services offer only second-tier content, which makes sense -- no reason networks and cable channels would give their best stuff away. For that reason I doubt it's going to get any better.
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Sorry folks. This site is useless.
This is what I've been trying to say!
is there some major functionality missing for you? are you disappointed that you can only watch a certain number of shows on demand? does your hardware, software and/or internet connection not allow for decent performance?
sweetie, lately I think your name should be changed to "judgecell".
My performance is just fine thank you.;)
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Sorry folks. This site is useless.
This is what I've been trying to say!
is there some major functionality missing for you? are you disappointed that you can only watch a certain number of shows on demand? does your hardware, software and/or internet connection not allow for decent performance?
sweetie, lately I think your name should be changed to "judgecell".
My performance is just fine thank you.;)
both you and thirsty make a grandiose & vague claim, "this site is useless", and provide NO detail or backing. so i asked, why is it useless?
do we get an answer? nope, i get called names instead. well done.
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here, let me help you:
http://www.hulu.com/chuck
http://www.hulu.com/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart
http://www.hulu.com/the-colbert-report
http://www.hulu.com/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia
http://www.hulu.com/family-guy
http://www.hulu.com/lost
http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons
http://www.hulu.com/the-office-uk
Phew! Thank you for verifying my suspicion that I'm missing nothing whatsoever by not having a functioning digital tv set or cable!
Hulu does not have Trailer Park Boys nor The Wire but they do offer other schlock that I avoid. Okay, maybe about 2 shows I don't mind like The Office and Kitchen Confidential, though I rarely bother with them.
Hulu sucks ass! There are times when I use it but mostly for movies. All in all, their selection pretty much sucks ass too. The majority of what they have on offer is so bad that they should pay people to watch that less than B-movie grade crap. The filmmakers are lucky if anyone even bothers to watch. Guess that's why I only wander in there every so many months.
I will give them credit for one thing: their download time beats the heck out of most other free movie sites. Some will take hours. Then there are those Megavideo movies that break after about an hour or so and you have to wait another hour, and redownload, to finish the film. Plus they remember your watched time so you don't start over at 0 with each new start. You could break 20 minutes in and then have to start all over again. The trick is knowing how to remember where you are and then advance, wait for download to catch up and then watch; otherwise, you'd never see a whole feature film.
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Yeah, it's not accurate to say Hulu is "totally useless." If it doesn't have the shows you want, then it's totally useless *for you*.
As far as movies -- it's not free, but so far my experience with Netflix's streaming video has been great. At the most basic level, one DVD at a time, you can watch unlimited streaming videos for $8.99 a month.
I think between Hulu, Netflix, various websites, and good ole fashioned broadcast television, you can probably get very well without cable unless you're a serious TV junkie. I'm certainly never going back to sending $80 a month to Comcast.
For premier shows like "The Wire" you've just gotta shift your viewing habits -- ie, wait for the last season to come out on Netflix. So worth it though, when you consider what cable costs.
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Sorry folks. This site is useless.
This is what I've been trying to say!
is there some major functionality missing for you? are you disappointed that you can only watch a certain number of shows on demand? does your hardware, software and/or internet connection not allow for decent performance?
sweetie, lately I think your name should be changed to "judgecell".
My performance is just fine thank you.;)
both you and thirsty make a grandiose & vague claim, "this site is useless", and provide NO detail or backing. so i asked, why is it useless?
do we get an answer? nope, i get called names instead. well done.
Sweetie, I'm teasing you! Sorry if it was taken as name calling. I was trying to lighten the mood around here, as I do think that everything is a debate around here lately. I wasn't trying to be vague, I didn't feel the need to elaborate since I generally said what I thought [before]. I don't understand why one can't go to another site or the main network site to watch TV shows b/c that is where Hulu is routing a viewer anyway. Therefore, Hulu doesn't have a lot of full episodes and when they do, they remove them before I can watch (due to network's pulling or expiring content).
Group hug? C'mon, we're bigger than a debate about Hulu.
(http://www.caption-this.com/group%20hug.jpg)
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Let it be known that I didn't call him a name, I just called him out on his obsession with Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
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Group hug?
yes pweaze.
sorry about that, T, t'was late...
Let it be known that I didn't call him a name, I just called him out on his obsession with Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
that's what hurt the most.
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Is it really $80 a month?
What if you already have DSL and landline phone, how much extra does it cost to have cable added to the package?
Personally, I'm with you. I get my share of packaged entertainment via Hulu, Netflix, and other websites. And if I can't get it right away, I wait until I can.
But my wife is a bit more of a junkie, and she argues that getting her fix will actually SAVE us money for awhile, then the cost of cable won't be more than $40 extra when piggybacking with DSL and landline. Anybody have numbers that confirm or refute this?
Yeah, it's not accurate to say Hulu is "totally useless." If it doesn't have the shows you want, then it's totally useless *for you*.
As far as movies -- it's not free, but so far my experience with Netflix's streaming video has been great. At the most basic level, one DVD at a time, you can watch unlimited streaming videos for $8.99 a month.
I think between Hulu, Netflix, various websites, and good ole fashioned broadcast television, you can probably get very well without cable unless you're a serious TV junkie. I'm certainly never going back to sending $80 a month to Comcast.
For premier shows like "The Wire" you've just gotta shift your viewing habits -- ie, wait for the last season to come out on Netflix. So worth it though, when you consider what cable costs.
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Personally, I'm with you. I get my share of packaged entertainment via Hulu, Netflix, and other websites. And if I can't get it right away, I wait until I can.
You would, considering your favorite show is Major Dad.
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Personally, I'm with you. I get my share of packaged entertainment via Hulu, Netflix, and other websites. And if I can't get it right away, I wait until I can.
You would, considering your favorite show is Major Dad.
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was standing outside the sold out Gerald McRaney celebrity bowling event in Biloxi, Mississippi back in 1991 and this green teethed girl came up to me out of the blue and offerered me free tickets, backstage passes, and a tub of nachos?
One of the most underappreciated actors of his generation, or any generation for that matter. And a Christian. Too! Though I actually preferred Simon and Simon to Major Dad. Not many people know this, but Gerald actually tried out for the role of Luke Duke. Damn shame he was turned down.
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He played a mean SOB in Deadwood. Didn't know he tried out for Luke Duke.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/194766/report_hulu_to_offer_10permonth_subscription.html
Hulu to offer $10/mth subscription
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Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was standing outside the sold out Gerald McRaney celebrity bowling event in Biloxi, Mississippi back in 1991 and this green teethed girl came up to me out of the blue and offerered me free tickets, backstage passes, and a tub of nachos?
Nope, but my old friend Rhett Miller once did.
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I don't know what it costs to bundle cable with everything else. I do know it's still a lot of money, and the prices you'll be quoted are introductory costs that eventually go up. I suppose you could just keep canceling and re-upping, although there's also a startup fee.
The last piece of my TV setup is in place -- I have hooked a Hauppaage USB TV receiver to my PC, which now acts as a PVR, and I can access live and recorded TV, internet video, and Netflix all through the same interface (Microsoft Media Center, which is pretty good). At this point I'm not missing cable at all.
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And the number of manhours you spent rigging the whole gig up is equivalent to paying for three years of cable for those with real jobs...
I don't know what it costs to bundle cable with everything else. I do know it's still a lot of money, and the prices you'll be quoted are introductory costs that eventually go up. I suppose you could just keep canceling and re-upping, although there's also a startup fee.
The last piece of my TV setup is in place -- I have hooked a Hauppaage USB TV receiver to my PC, which now acts as a PVR, and I can access live and recorded TV, internet video, and Netflix all through the same interface (Microsoft Media Center, which is pretty good). At this point I'm not missing cable at all.
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Although it took me some time to decide how I wanted to set this up, the actual setup time for all of it was probably under an hour. And using it is easy. I can see how it might take longer though if you're not very bright.
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And the number of manhours you spent rigging the whole gig up is equivalent to paying for three years of cable for those with real jobs...
wow, you must have really, really cheap cable. i'm paying about $50/month for cable on top of internet. no way teh doomz paid $1,800 for his set-up.
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He is assuming my time is valued at hundreds of dollars per hour, which I wish my employer agreed with. :D