PCWORLD:
After months of speculation, Hulu has finally announced a for-pay version of its online streaming television service. Hulu Plus costs $9.99 per month and provides full access to entire seasons (current and past) of shows from ABC, NBC, FOX, and other TV networks.
What's more, Hulu Plus will be available on a multitude of devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and TVs and Blu-Ray players from Samsung, Sony, and Vizio.
While $9.99 per month isn't that steep compared to premium cable packages, Hulu Plus has some problems that may make you reconsider subscribing. Here are three reasons you shouldn't pay for Hulu Plus.
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It still has ads, has reduced content to a degree, but now they want to pay.
Does that applies for Xbox live as well?
@ClownBelt
It doesn't work like that, it's the Paid Feature that let you Play On-line, doesn't matter if the Whole x360 userbase complain about it, they can do nothing and even if they try they'll don't get anything, they Pay and can access those Features, if they don't, they just have a Single-Player Only Console, anyway we were talking about how Hulu sucks.... so yeah, for $10 per month with ads, they can keep it...
The problem with me is solely how much they're asking for this plus the fact I still have to sit through ads. As it is, I use Hulu primarily for watching shows I'm not 100% into. I record the programs I'm into on my PVR.
I think this might be good for those people who use it in place of cable but want a bit more for their experience. Especially the ability to watch a full season of shows isn't bad. Add in the portability, and many people are very happy with this.
But, it just isn't for me because I can watch tons of shows on other sites without ads as it is and I'm not going to give up my cable service since Hulu doesn't cover all of the shows (True Blood, Dexter, Leverage, etc.) I watch on cable.
...so I won't need to bother paying or sitting at my computer to watch tv programs :)
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Because Netflix is cheaper and gives you discs in the mail plus a pretty good library of shows/movies. All 3 seasons of Arrested Development anyone?
And no ads. It's pretty obvious Hulu Plus sucks.
Oh and if you want to watch a show the day after it's out, free Hulu is still there.
because unless they are offering atleast 720p resolution,why switch?
they only allow for 480p which is ok for mobile phones but not for anyone with a pc/laptop because they all come with atleast 720p resolution monitors..
unless im mistaken,the last i remember they only offered 480p and that shit was too blurry for my taste also when you switch to 480p the picture gets a lil darker...if they dont offer HD for 9.99 then why switch.
peace and game on
They do offer 720P in Hulu Plus actually. Doesn't make it worth it though
it will solve all your media problems.
Hulu Plus is on the App Store right now for iTunes and it works flawlessly over 3g. I love the speculation from the writer when he could have tested it first hand.