When I first found hulu, I thought: 'Its about damn time' but then, after using it for a slight amount of time, I realized it pretty much sucked. Sure you can watch shows... with ads... but if you want to watch it anywhere other than a PC you gotta pay... and if you want a queue... you gotta pay... and if you want XXX... gotta be a Hulu plus member... and YOU STILL HAVE TO WATCH ADS.
Then there are the times when you get redirected to the content producers website... with a completely different flash based noisy (as in makes sounds for no fucking reason) website to try and dig around and find some episode I want to watch... in 320x240 because cbs.com is a shitty website... using some other completely retarded flash player.
So... I rapidly learned hulu could go fuck themselves. Now, instead I just DVR it on my Windows media center box, and have it transcode to iPhone/iPad and XBox360 compatible formats after the fact... auto removing commercials in the process.
This is what happens when you make your product so absolutely freaking annoying to use that people would rather spend the effort to just figure out a way to not use you.
So no, I can't randomly watch some random show from last season of Stargate Universe because they decide they'd put it up on Hulu this week. Instead I watch whatever one scifi decided to air this week... without the commercials... without paying more than I'm already paying for scifi shows... you know, since the cable company is already paying them for me out of my cable bill... which of course, cable was originally supposed to be sans-ads as well... Even if you watch the ads on cable versions, you at least generally don't see the same ad 4 times during one show... with Hulu its rather common to see the same commercial at EVERY FREAKING commercial point.
And of course I can queue up shows/movies to play back to back, on the devices I want to watch them on... doesn't matter if its my TV, iPad, PC, or phone...
Hulu was a good idea that the content producers fucked up and made so most people wouldn't bother. Now they are trying to dump it on someone else before its a total wash.
I'd like to know how or what programs you use to transcode to another device. I've seen and read some interesting pieces but nothing works like it says it will. I'm really interested in the removing commercials part. If I could get that done, then maybe my wife would let me cut the cable cord.
Thanks.
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When I first found hulu, I thought: 'Its about damn time' but then, after using it for a slight amount of time, I realized it pretty much sucked. Sure you can watch shows ... with ads ... but if you want to watch it anywhere other than a PC you gotta pay ... and if you want a queue ... you gotta pay ... and if you want XXX ... gotta be a Hulu plus member ... and YOU STILL HAVE TO WATCH ADS.
Then there are the times when you get redirected to the content producers website ... with a completely different flash based noisy (as in makes sounds for no fucking reason) website to try and dig around and find some episode I want to watch ... in 320x240 because cbs.com is a shitty website ... using some other completely retarded flash player.
So ... I rapidly learned hulu could go fuck themselves. Now, instead I just DVR it on my Windows media center box, and have it transcode to iPhone/iPad and XBox360 compatible formats after the fact ... auto removing commercials in the process.
This is what happens when you make your product so absolutely freaking annoying to use that people would rather spend the effort to just figure out a way to not use you.
So no, I can't randomly watch some random show from last season of Stargate Universe because they decide they'd put it up on Hulu this week. Instead I watch whatever one scifi decided to air this week ... without the commercials ... without paying more than I'm already paying for scifi shows ... you know, since the cable company is already paying them for me out of my cable bill ... which of course, cable was originally supposed to be sans-ads as well ... Even if you watch the ads on cable versions, you at least generally don't see the same ad 4 times during one show ... with Hulu its rather common to see the same commercial at EVERY FREAKING commercial point.
And of course I can queue up shows/movies to play back to back, on the devices I want to watch them on ... doesn't matter if its my TV, iPad, PC, or phone ...
Hulu was a good idea that the content producers fucked up and made so most people wouldn't bother. Now they are trying to dump it on someone else before its a total wash.
I'd like to know how or what programs you use to transcode to another device. I've seen and read some interesting pieces but nothing works like it says it will. I'm really interested in the removing commercials part. If I could get that done, then maybe my wife would let me cut the cable cord. Thanks.