Full story at: LA Times
Well what do you all think?
I voted I won’t pay. I watch Hulu every now and then but I have too many streaming issues with it to pay for it
Hmmm. If I get rid of cable, I might pay. Otherwise, no.
Too bad, but I guess it was inevitable.
Nope, not going to pay. I’ve only watched a handful of shows anyway so it’s not a big deal. I think $10 is way too much anyway.
I’d pay if I dropped cable. The most recent five episodes of TV shows would be enough, since I primarily use it for shows I missed.
Sure, not a problem. That’s cheaper than most Netflix subscription levels, cheaper than buying per-episode on iTunes, cheaper than a pair of movie tickets, and a heck of a lot cheaper than cable.
This assumes they have a way to stream to my TV, though (one that works better than Play-On, whose continual response to “it doesn’t work on the BD 390” is “sorry, we don’t have one to test with,” as though there were market forces preventing them from buying a $250 device.)
I don’t watch TV on my computers, at least not very often.
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I don’t think I will pay the $9.95. I think I will just continue to watch the past 5 episodes. I just watch “Glee” on it anyway. If they add “Big Bang Theory” I would watch that too.
I only use it to watch recent episodes of my favorite shows. I don’t need to be able to see the later stuff. It’s just going to be rerun later.
If it were possible to have a wider variety of popular shows, I might consider it. I’d like to see a few of the Bravo shows and the CBS shows.
$9.95 a month is a relatively high price for what is effectively a mediocre cable service.
I might if they keep it commercial free. But I don’t expect that to happen. . Get yer $10 from someone else.
I would have voted “no” but there is the chance that say, at the family lake house I go to for chunks of time in the summer, where I don’t have good access to tv I might pay for a month here or there. When I’m at home though? Nah.
Do they have a much better deal than Netflix as far as steaming TV? I’ll wait and see.
Yeah, and no commercials!
If Hulu was ad-free for $10/mo, I might consider it, but if it still has commercials, no way
I give “thumbs down” to all their ads anyway, just as a matter of principle, I hate ads, even if i theoretically liked the product being promoted, the advert still gets a thumbs down
I’m not going to pay 10 bucks to catch up on my Barney Miller…
I spend $10 a month on Netflix and get a lot of content, and that one at a time DVD that I rarely remember to watch. I am pretty happy waiting for TV shows to come out on DVD because I’ve forgotten how to enjoy episodic television. Give me an all day orgy of a TV series! I will patiently wait for The Pacific, Treme, and the new season of Breaking Bad so I can watch it all at once, even if I have to wait a year.
The argument I always hear is that people like me who don’t have television or cable and won’t subscribe to Hulu are making it harder to make quality scripted television because it’s so expensive. It feels like it’s not my problem, though. People will continue to make art and find a way to distribute it. I am interested to see how this all plays out actually.
Well, judging by the article, they’re keeping the recent stuff free to view. Presumably that’s what draws in the big ad revenue bucks, since it’s the most popular. I would imagine, if they didn’t want to be greedy assholes about it, that they would leave ads on the normally free stuff but not on the stuff you have to pay to see. That strikes me as the most sensible approach. But who am I kidding, it’s studio executives running the show. Of course they’re greedy assholes.
As for me, I probably won’t pay, although it’s not a definite no. The only things I watch right now on Hulu are Castle and SGU, and the recent eps being free is satisfactory to me. That might change in the future. Although frankly, Netflix’s Watch Instantly catalog of shows I’d want to watch is much more extensive, AND I can stream Netflix to my TV, AND I get DVDs as well. Hulu’s offering seems kind of paltry to me for the price point.
Sorry, Hulu, but not interested. Netflix already gives me pretty much the same thing with Instant View (especially since new episodes of current shows will still be free on Hulu), plus the ability to rent physical DVDs, for $8.99/month. And shows I watch on Instant View are free of commercials, something I doubt will be true for Hulu Plus.
As I said in a previous thread, here’s what it would take for Hulu to win my subscription:
[ul]
[li]No more than $5/month[/li][li]Absolutely no commercials of any kind[/li][li]FULL archives of all shows offered - that means all seasons, not just the most recent season[/li][li]Unlimited hi-def access (i.e. no locking me out after a certain number of shows watched per time period)[/li][li]No “delayed airing” of current shows - the stream of a given new episode MUST be available the day the episode airs on TV[/li][/ul]
Any less than the above, and my money stays with me.
Not a chance. I don’t mind rating those ads at all for free tv, and even suggested making it where one has to click to vote before the show starts back if anyone was interested in that instead of paying.
Honestly, I don’t really get the commercial hate. Commercials in general are annoying, sure, but the ads on Hulu are not nearly as intrusive or tiresome as those on TV. A 30 minute show on TV will have 6-9 minutes of commercials; the same show on Hulu has about 1-2 minutes.
Plus, Hulu has one thing going for it over Netflix: Netflix’s streaming player sucks rocks. I hate it. Hate it hate it hate. Hulu’s player is a thing of elegant beauty in comparison, even with ads in place.