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I too was excited by the promise of HULU as it allows people with fan sites to post LEGAL video for sharing online. Unfortunately the limited content and this business where items expire is very disheartening especially since the HULU player is faster to load and streams smoother than either the FOX or NBC or even SciFI native players on their respective websites. The USA Networks ones chop episodes into little pieces so you have to go from link to link. I like to allow a program to load completely and then play all the way through.

There are still some good items on the site but I agree until they sort out their content and expiration issues it will not launch or come to fruition.

A site I do really like is Magnify.net- you can build custom video channels and embed all kinds of video from across the web. Their own player is slick and high quality and the nice layout makes finding things easy.
For an example- check out The Sarah Connor Society Video Channel where we have tons of promos from the new series as well as fan videos and interviews in one clean interactive viewer that is linked to our forums.

http://sarahconnorsocietyvideochannel.magnify.net/

If they ever add TSCC to Hulu I will gladly add the episodes to our channel- until then we refer people to the FOX site. Outside the US people know how to get video for viewing on their own .

Great video and review of the status of HULU. I am going to do a quick write up and include your video in my blog.

I read about Hulu in a web site from my country yesterday and I confess I got very impressed with the fact that I could watch some of my favorite series on demand!!
But now my impression tranformed in depression.. I can’t watch videos because I’m not in the US (I live in Brazil), and when I saw on this video that all the contents we have in Hulu we just had before in other sites, I trully believe that hulu is DOA!!!
I believe that Hulu’s developers should consider very quickly to make those videos available in other country’s, as well as putting more content on the web site, because if they don’t to this, I believe youtube will continue dominating the web when talking about videos (and now that they opened the web site to other developers create their own pages, I believe this is gonna be a success)!!

PS: I would like to congratulate Paul’s attitude of showing us the problems of Hulu on this video

Bye!

I have been using it since I got the invite. The only problems I have been having are with the ISP badnwidth or other ISP slowness issues. T1 didn’t give me a break up in the screen, but in general there is a lot of buffering that the site just can’t seem to resolve. I have been able to actually finish very few full length episodes of anything without 10-15 minute delays, if I even got to finish the episodes. If the beta issues could be resolved I would definitely give it kudos galore. That said, I am still a big fan of the site. The content is what draws me and keeps me there.

Streaming isn’t scalable.

http://www.paulcolligan.com/2008/04/23/you-cant-handle-the-truth-about-podcasting/

Paul