# Hulu anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518 "2019-04-14T00:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/21 "2019-04-21T15:47:59Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I’ve been using Hulu for about a year and had a great experience. I just get the ~$13 no-commercials streaming plan. The UI on my Rokus frustrates me a bit compared to Netflix, it takes a lot of button presses to get to a specific episode in a specific season. But the content isn’t bad, mostly old and new TV shows is what I watch but there are a few good movies too. I have Hulu right now, and I’m seeing the first season of _The Act_ (drama about the Gypsy Rose/Dee Dee Blanchard affair, w/Joey King as Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and Patricia Arquette as her mother Dee Dee). It’s almost done (2 shows to go), and I’ve been enjoying it very much! ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/22 "2019-04-21T23:22:24Z")
Try hulu streaming for $6 a month - if it runs smoothly, then I don’t see why live TV wouldn’t either. The bottleneck is likely to be something on your end rather than anything to do with their live TV broadcasts - although it’s possible I’m incorrect about this - so if you can stream hulu’s archive, you can probably stream the live TV. Or better yet, I just looked it up and they offer a 7 day trial for their live TV service. That will answer this definitively. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/23 "2019-04-22T00:22:14Z")
I watch Hulu Live using my Roku TV and have noticed a few issues. Sometimes, the audio and video don’t sync (as in thirty seconds or more off, not just slightly off) and the remedy is to restart. The problem I have had has some to do with Hulu, but mostly to do with my ISP. Hulu has to feed you the local channels for your present location. It gets that location info from your IP address. I live within two miles of the line between central and mountain time zones. My router uses a dynamic IP address. Sometimes the address is in mountain time. Sometimes in central time. I find this very annoying. Also, the local channels bounce from Albuquerque (in Mountain Time) to Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland/Odessa, or even San Angelo (all in Central Time). I don’t really care which central time city it picks, but I wish it would just stay with one. The only remedy seems to be to restart the router repeatedly until it gets the city I want. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/24 "2019-04-22T00:23:12Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Try hulu streaming for $6 a month - if it runs smoothly, then I don’t see why live TV wouldn’t either. The bottleneck is likely to be something on your end rather than anything to do with their live TV broadcasts - although it’s possible I’m incorrect about this - so if you can stream hulu’s archive, you can probably stream the live TV. > > Or better yet, I just looked it up and they offer a 7 day trial for their live TV service. That will answer this definitively. Thanks, I don’t know how but I missed the 7 day trial with live tv service, I had thought it was just for streaming. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/25 "2019-04-22T00:33:36Z")
We’ve used Hulu streaming through the App on an AppleTV (3 and then 4) for several years. Very few problems. I mean the app has frozen up and required a reinstall maybe twice in those years, but as long as the internet has been up it’s worked like a charm. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/26 "2019-04-22T00:51:15Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > What sort of problems do you have? I have a Roku 2 and a Roku Express, both work well. The Hulu app is different on each of them, it’s not a great app to navigate but works. I can’t speak for Hulu, but the Netflix app on Roku 1 is definitely subpar. You can’t even access any of your “other” accounts (I think you get 4 per subscription, normally), which if it’s just for you may not be an issue, but for people sharing in the same house, it’s a pain to not be able to keep track of your own lists, shows you watched, etc. Youtube also has a very crappy version on the Roku 1. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/27 "2019-04-22T17:22:46Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I can’t speak for Hulu, but the Netflix app on Roku 1 is definitely subpar. You can’t even access any of your “other” accounts (I think you get 4 per subscription, normally), which if it’s just for you may not be an issue, but for people sharing in the same house, it’s a pain to not be able to keep track of your own lists, shows you watched, etc. > > Youtube also has a very crappy version on the Roku 1. That could be the problem, we were using it for Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518/28 "2019-04-22T17:44:17Z")
You didn’t ask but I just got a new fire stick 4k and it’s fantastic and the apps work really well too. And I normally kinda dislike Amazon software, like fireOS. Get the 4k model over the regular one even if you don’t need 4k. It’s only $10 more and it’s like 40% faster /snappier and it comes with a remote with power and volume controls. It’s actually a semi programmable remote. You can set up other devices and then hit voice control and say “turn on my Blu ray player”. And it will know to turn on the player and set the right input on the TV. It’s a fantastic device for $50. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hulu-anyone/832518.md?page=1)