Hulu - am I missing something?

[sweetcell]

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...

[thirsty moore]

Sorry folks. This site is useless.

[sweetcell]

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

[eltee]

Sorry folks. This site is useless.

This is what I've been trying to say!

[thirsty moore]

here, let me help you:

[sweetcell]

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... )

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?

[thirsty moore]

Listen man, who am I to judge if you want to watch clips from Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

[sweetcell]

lol. 

you have figured out that they also offer full episodes, right?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

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.

[eltee]

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.

[sweetcell]

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.

[Jaguar]

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.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

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.

[eltee]

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.

[thirsty moore]

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.