Friday, June 13, 2008
Hulu – The Future of Online Video
Once upon a time if you had a hankering for watching some old SNL skit, an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, or maybe last week’s Family Guy, your choices were limited… Maybe for the older stuff, you could go to the local video store and hope the TV section had what you wanted – of course you’re out of luck for anything that just aired. Or maybe you could buy a boxed DVD set – if you can find it, and if you really want to fork out that kind of money for essentially just one show. Or you possibly could root around one of the paid content Internet sites such as Apple’s iTunes or Amazon’s Unbox to see if it is being offered … for a price. Perhaps you checked out YouTube to see if maybe, hope against hope, someone posted that show that you’re hunting for, albeit it, in grainy low quality – and at only 10 minutes a shot. Some may even go as far as to dig up a torrent seed or visit pirate websites and obtain what they want by less than legal means – something we certainly discourage! Then along comes Hulu and everything changes.
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