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ABC/Disney Considering Hulu

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Walt Disney Co and Hulu.com have restarted talks over offering shows from Disney's ABC television network on the online video distributor owned by NBC Universal and News Corp, paidContent.org reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources." The real question to me is when will they stop screwing around with Boxee users?

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  1. Stop screwing with Boxee users? Never... by nweaver · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hulu is about turning your brain into a rich mush for the benefit of aliens, err, advertisers.

    Boxee bypasses much of the advertisement and branding structure, so its not in Hulu's incentive to play nice with Boxee.

    Especially since Boxee is just the mac users (10% of the market) and linux (1%).

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    1. Re:Stop screwing with Boxee users? Never... by hedwards · · Score: 3, Informative

      Wait, you mean a commercial enterprise that pays a fee to host programming is purposely trying to make it difficult on free riders. Oh the shock, oh the outrage.

      How can we possibly allow that to happen.

      Seriously though, Hulu is working on adding device support to their service, I believe Roku is on the list, but they still have to pay their fees to use the media, and any service that zaps the ads isn't going to be considered for partnership.

      I'm not really sure how people can be shocked or outraged about that. Hulu can only be free as long as the copyright owners allow their media to be used. And that requires some sort of payment, either a fee or watching the ads. And really, it only comes out to about a minute and a half per half hour, it's really not that much.

    2. Re:Stop screwing with Boxee users? Never... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      But Boxee didn't "zap" the ads. All the ads were intact. Boxee simply provided an alternative interface for accessing the same content.

  2. Re:Hulu is mess and unusable! by foniksonik · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know, I start typing "Dam..." into the search box and "Damages" shows right up, it's the worst... I wanted to get a random TV show, not exactly what I was looking for.

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  3. Re:Boxee by Cobain · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good thing no one manufactures DVI to HDMI adapters. Oh wait..

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