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Hulu Launches With Few YouTube Killing Qualities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the controlled-content-delivery dept.

Hulu.com, the online video venture from NBC Universal and News Corp., has launched a private beta program. Early reports suggest it's far from being a YouTube killer. "Although Hulu's parent companies have done a lot of things right with the service, the scheduling leaves something to be desired. For the time being, the site will only feature five weeks worth of content for any given show. From there, it's assumed that older content will get the boot in favor of newer episodes and movies. This isn't necessarily a deal breaker for us, but for a lot of viewers this will prevent the service from becoming with online video Shangri-La they'd imagined. Furthermore, with the lack of user-generated content, it falls short of the end-all be-all site for online video. Viewers are still going to go to YouTube and still click their ads -- but in terms of piracy a minor rebellion may have been quelled."

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  1. Hulu.com by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can only hope, that somewhere on their intranet, they've got a subdomain called ct. Please please please make it so if anyone reading this has the power.

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  2. Re:Um... but the question remains by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... is NBC trying to create a "Youtube Killer" ? Indeed, I thought this was to be NBC trying to create an iTunes Video killer.
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  3. Re:click their ads? by Sporkinum · · Score: 2, Funny

    Snap snap, Grin grin, Wink wink. Say No More!

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  4. Re:A better Youtube killer by McFadden · · Score: 2, Funny

    But yeah, the actual website itself expects this stupid plugin, and that's retarded.
    Too right. Retarded. That makes sense. If we want to play DivX video in our browsers, we should just ask the magic fairies to do it. It's ridiculous to expect us to install new software to give functionality we don't currently have.