Don’t see myself paying unless the previous tv seasons content is deep and not available on Netflix. Otherwise, there’s no point in paying $9.99 a month.
Nope.
I think I’ve watched about 10 minutes worth of stuff on Hulu. I’ve got Netflix streaming, and my “must see” TV shows are available on the network websites. Besides, doesn’t the pay version of Hulu still have ads?
Nope. I would never pay for that service.
and I don’t think the vast majority of consumers will, either.
I might, if I move someplace and decide I don’t want to pay for cable. I’ve already got Netflix, so another $10 for stuff I can watch when it’s on (and if I miss it, it will re-run, or I can watch it on the network’s website, or find “other” ways to watch it…) isn’t worth it.
I’m already paying for Netflix and rarely streaming from that (can’t do it on my laptop, and if I’m in front of my desktop, I’m in front of a TV too) so I can’t see the value. There’s not nearly enough content I’m interested in even if my computer setup were different.
Hell no. I rarely watch anything on Hulu because of playback issues - I’ve yet to see anything playback smoothly from start to finish (unlike shows on the sites of the networks which work perfectly). No way I’d pay money for that.
$9.99 a month seems pretty steep to me. Isn’t Netflix cheaper?
Nope. Nothing there worth paying for.
No. I use Hulu all the time but only for watching current stuff I just missed. I’ve not really experienced any issue with wanting to see old TV shows and not being able to.
No chance. Hulu never seems to work right for me.
These things only work if they can make the legal services easier than getting it illegally. Not only is Hulu more difficult that the illegal services, but it offers worse playback.
It seems reasonable to me, so I might consider it. There’s a lot of shows I haven’t seen and this would be a pretty cheap way of catching up on them. Netflix looks like it has more stuff, and I think the price is about the same, but I hear that they change what’s available for streaming all the time, so there might be things I want to watch that just disappear.
No. I am in the middle of watching Babylon 5 and was excited to find out that the first two seasons are available on Hulu - until I actually tried to watch them and had nonstop problems with choppy playback and browser crashing. After dozens of browser restarts I finally gave up and am getting my B5 fix elsewhere now. There is no way in hell I would pay for a service like that.
If it works well (i.e., I can consistently get a high quality stream), I’ll probably do it. I cancelled cable and went to just Netflix a while back. It’d be nice to have easier access to current shows, and $10 a month is pretty reasonable if the content is there. It’s going to be available on the Xbox 360, so I can watch it from my couch, which is key. Also appears it will be available on the iPhone & iPad, which is nice.
Between Netflix and Hulu my total bill could be less than $20, which is sure a lot better than the $90 I was paying for DirecTV. I miss live sports, but that’s what pubs are for.
Not a penny from me. I don’t own a TV, so it’s been nice to follow The Office and The Simpsons these past couple of years thanks to Hulu, but if I had to pay for it I wouldn’t bother. (I believe that the availablity of recent episodes for free is not going away anyway, right?) I have only looked at Hulu’s catalog of old shows a couple of times–I scratched a major nostalgia itch by tracking down an Alfred Hitchcock episode I remembered from childhood. As others have noted, I already have Netflix, and that eats up too much of my free time anyway!
Nope. I check stuff to watch out of the library. I’m good.
Huh. Must be one of the lucky ones–we’ve had no problems streaming Hulu through our receiver up to the television. This is on a wirelessly connected (N) laptop at 480. Crossing fingers to hope it lasts.
How does the pay play differ from what we have now? Will it merely be ad-free? Will the catalog change? We don’t watch all that much on it, but occasionally go through older series. New things are DVRd, so no real benefit there.
Not even that, from what I read.
I watch a few programs on Hulu. Unlike many here though, I don’t have a problem with video choppiness at all. Can’t tell you why. I watch via my wirelessly-connected Macbook Pro.
Having said the above, however, no, I would never pay for Hulu. TV is just not that important to me. Hulu’s convenient, yes, but its program selection is extremely limited.
Anyway, why would I pay for a service that will continue to bombard me with commercials? Isn’t that like paying twice? No thanks.
This occurred to me as well. Why is it that commercial TV is free to watchers, but commercial internet TV is not?
Hulu works well for me even on my crappy connection, but there would have to be current content that Netflix does not provide before I’d consider $10 per month.