About time... although the fact you still get more on the free web version than the paid iOS version is moronic, and frankly reflects the broken state of digital media distribution.
I will now finally buy an Apple TV... this is what I have been holding out for. Pick up tonight!
Welcome to post-Jobs, disorganized & confused Apple.
Where Hulu Plus makes an announcement about this on their blog, but Apple's website doesn't list it anywhere.
That could have been a condition of Hulu signing the deal. And since Apple is likely making more money off iTunes they wouldn't really care about the issue so they let Hulu have that honor
Personally I would rather see all SD only options dropped, the triple dropped to the SD pricing (if not more in a few cases), all shows at 720p right now and 1080p within a year, all missing seasons added back and the nets counting those views along with the ratings. Oh and releases within a month of original OTA regardless of country of origins in all stores (in other words a new ep of Sherlock airs tonight in the UK by Sept 1 I can buy it on the US store).
Drive traffic to iTunes for commercial free viewing instead of folks going to torrents in droves. Especially if that legal acquisition could keep the next cult fav on the air a bit longer.
Wouldn't hurt if they went similar ways with movies, getting subtitles and alt audio on everything, Extras working on iOS etc
Seriously? People are b!tching about $8 a month when they have fewer commercials than they have OTA. Instead of having 4 or 5 commercials per break you get 1 or two and, OMG, it's $8 a month!?!? I mean, who in the world would pay for that?!?!?! Umm... How much do you pay for your cable? 30 - 40 if not more. So you get a DVR? Well, that's nice, you're basically paying an additional $10 a month to be able to skip most of the commercials you are paying for with your regular cable feed. Hulu remains the only place where you can go to see all the previous seasons of tons of shows. Compare Hulu+ to Apple's solution. You get ad-free TV shows but if you watch more than, what, 4, it's already advantage Hulu. Yeah, it'd be nice if it was commercial free but let's be honest here - Apple's solution charges much, much, much more for the same content to be ad-free. If you want ad free you'd need to pay at least $30 a month which, ironically enough, is about the minimum you'd pay for real cable.
Hulu+ is still, to me, the best game in town for TV shows. You wait 1 day, you end up with maybe 3 mins of commercials for an hour long show and you don't have to wait an enternity for it to show up on NetFlix.
So - cable - $30+, Hulu+ $8. Both have commercials, Hulu has fewer of them and they are all available on-demand. I really have no idea why people complain about it so much...
BBC iPlayer is on practically every smart device around. Even my Samsung TV has iPlayer built-in. It would be very surprising indeed if the BBC hasn't approached Apple already.
I think this has to co-incide with Mountain Lion. Now you can just airplay the web version of Hulu directly to your TV so Hulu knows the only way to combat people just doing that is to offer it up directly on Apple TV. I'll still probably go the freebie web version unless it doesn't convert very well but Hulu really only had one choice with the advent of Airplay from the Mac.
Seriously? People are b!tching about $8 a month when they have fewer commercials than they have OTA. Instead of having 4 or 5 commercials per break you get 1 or two and, OMG, it's $8 a month!?!? I mean, who in the world would pay for that?!?!?! Umm... How much do you pay for your cable? 30 - 40 if not more. So you get a DVR? Well, that's nice, you're basically paying an additional $10 a month to be able to skip most of the commercials you are paying for with your regular cable feed. Hulu remains the only place where you can go to see all the previous seasons of tons of shows. Compare Hulu+ to Apple's solution. You get ad-free TV shows but if you watch more than, what, 4, it's already advantage Hulu. Yeah, it'd be nice if it was commercial free but let's be honest here - Apple's solution charges much, much, much more for the same content to be ad-free. If you want ad free you'd need to pay at least $30 a month which, ironically enough, is about the minimum you'd pay for real cable.
Hulu+ is still, to me, the best game in town for TV shows. You wait 1 day, you end up with maybe 3 mins of commercials for an hour long show and you don't have to wait an enternity for it to show up on NetFlix.
So - cable - $30+, Hulu+ $8. Both have commercials, Hulu has fewer of them and they are all available on-demand. I really have no idea why people complain about it so much...
My thoughts exactly. An entire generation of freeloaders seem to have joined Apple's user-base. It's painful reading the comments sometimes.
According to Dealmac, you can pay for this through your iTunes account, so I assume that Apple gets their standard cut for people who subscribe that way. I hope this is a precursor to a full-blown app store for ATV.
OK, this is definitely a Steve A.D. deal, as Steve would never allow this to happen. I'm actually really glad to see this happen as I can now watch Hulu in my bedroom. I'm almost ready to kill my Netflix subscription once I get in all of my Breaking Bad episodes. Hulu just seems more reasonable, even with the adverts. I spend 7 or 8 bucks for the DVR feature and this more than makes up for the ability to record. Plus I can go back and watch episodes from long ago.
While I'm glad Hulu Plus is added for those that use it and also to allow for better competition- It's something I won't use. HBO Go... that I absolutely would and is fantastic for On Demand HBO shows- and gorgeous UI to boot (on iPad). Come on Apple/HBO.... make it happen.... Microsoft/HBO did already......
And, no, you can't watch standard (free) Hulu content on it. Just like always. And just like on every other device. That's not Apple's fault, and it's not Hulu's fault. That's the content rights owners that are preventing the content from being streamed to a mobile or set-top box. No, I don't like it. But, I don't blame Chevrolet is there's not a road going where I want to go.
What you are seeing is people who don't use Hulu Plus complaining about that b/c it is completely counter intuitive. I don't have Hulu Plus and it makes absolutely zero sense to me why they wouldn't allow the free content to stream. I don't want to have to mirror my screen to the TV when I want to watch some shows and use the app for others. That's stupid. Netflix works fine for my family's needs tho so I'm ok.
BBC iPlayer is on practically every smart device around. Even my Samsung TV has iPlayer built-in. It would be very surprising indeed if the BBC hasn't approached Apple already.
I am surprised the Beeb and Apple haven't done a deal by now. It could be a huge revenue earner for the BBC. I know many here in the States would love to have it.
I seriously don't see how they expect AppleTV to catch on with all this nonsense and unreliability built into the model.
Getting country-by-country copyrights is a headache. Cross-border rights barely exist. You should take it up with your Canadian Ministry of Whatever.... :-)
Cool story. I personally launched Hulu on the Apple TV a few days ago with Airplay Mirroring. For free.
What a lot of people don't know and I only found out through their free trial on Xbox, is that half the content available to everyone for free in their browser is unavailable for Hulu PLus on devices due to various licensing restrictions between Hulu and its content providers. Very lame. Hulu Plus just isn't a great deal. Even less great if you have Mountain Lion and can just beam everything to your TV for free. Sure, you have to pay to watch season two of The Office or whatever, but you could do that with Netflix and get a whole bunch of other popular shows that Hulu doesn't even offer (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Louie, the list goes on and on).
On a side note I would love to see PBS get an app on Apple TV. Their iOS apps are fantastic. I also wouldn't mind paying for access to BBC's iPlayer since I am in the States and usually have to resort to 'other methods' to get the latest Top Gear or Brian Cox helicopter on a mountain astronomy/physics lesson
I am surprised the Beeb and Apple haven't done a deal by now. It could be a huge revenue earner for the BBC. I know many here in the States would love to have it.
I know there was a global version of the BBC iPlayer App for iPad in the works but I don't know what happened to it.
Getting country-by-country copyrights is a headache. Cross-border rights barely exist. You should take it up with your Canadian Ministry of Whatever.... :-)
Well, I know it's a headache and hard to do etc., just that their record so far is essentially zero after about six years of trying. Funny joke about the government etc. but of course it's nothing to do with the government at all.
I don't know the ins and outs of it all but it's safe to assume with zero progress after all this time that it is the content owners that are actually holding everything back. Like the music industry they will probably have to be taken to the brink of collapse before they see the value in moving forward into the future. They are still thinking of the Internet as "a service that runs on my laptop" instead of what it really is, which is the new backbone of the new distribution system. Curiously I think Apple's Airplay in OS X will be a major factor in moving them forward as the concept of keeping somethings "on your computer" and other things "on your TV" is a false distinction that is exposed by the fact that you can now stream your computer to the TV anyway.
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About time... although the fact you still get more on the free web version than the paid iOS version is moronic, and frankly reflects the broken state of digital media distribution.
I will now finally buy an Apple TV... this is what I have been holding out for. Pick up tonight!
That could have been a condition of Hulu signing the deal. And since Apple is likely making more money off iTunes they wouldn't really care about the issue so they let Hulu have that honor
Personally I would rather see all SD only options dropped, the triple dropped to the SD pricing (if not more in a few cases), all shows at 720p right now and 1080p within a year, all missing seasons added back and the nets counting those views along with the ratings. Oh and releases within a month of original OTA regardless of country of origins in all stores (in other words a new ep of Sherlock airs tonight in the UK by Sept 1 I can buy it on the US store).
Drive traffic to iTunes for commercial free viewing instead of folks going to torrents in droves. Especially if that legal acquisition could keep the next cult fav on the air a bit longer.
Wouldn't hurt if they went similar ways with movies, getting subtitles and alt audio on everything, Extras working on iOS etc
Seriously? People are b!tching about $8 a month when they have fewer commercials than they have OTA. Instead of having 4 or 5 commercials per break you get 1 or two and, OMG, it's $8 a month!?!? I mean, who in the world would pay for that?!?!?! Umm... How much do you pay for your cable? 30 - 40 if not more. So you get a DVR? Well, that's nice, you're basically paying an additional $10 a month to be able to skip most of the commercials you are paying for with your regular cable feed. Hulu remains the only place where you can go to see all the previous seasons of tons of shows. Compare Hulu+ to Apple's solution. You get ad-free TV shows but if you watch more than, what, 4, it's already advantage Hulu. Yeah, it'd be nice if it was commercial free but let's be honest here - Apple's solution charges much, much, much more for the same content to be ad-free. If you want ad free you'd need to pay at least $30 a month which, ironically enough, is about the minimum you'd pay for real cable.
Hulu+ is still, to me, the best game in town for TV shows. You wait 1 day, you end up with maybe 3 mins of commercials for an hour long show and you don't have to wait an enternity for it to show up on NetFlix.
So - cable - $30+, Hulu+ $8. Both have commercials, Hulu has fewer of them and they are all available on-demand. I really have no idea why people complain about it so much...
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Originally Posted by charlituna
Who says it's Apple not allowing it.
BBC iPlayer is on practically every smart device around. Even my Samsung TV has iPlayer built-in. It would be very surprising indeed if the BBC hasn't approached Apple already.
I think this has to co-incide with Mountain Lion. Now you can just airplay the web version of Hulu directly to your TV so Hulu knows the only way to combat people just doing that is to offer it up directly on Apple TV. I'll still probably go the freebie web version unless it doesn't convert very well but Hulu really only had one choice with the advent of Airplay from the Mac.
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Originally Posted by bigmc6000
Seriously? People are b!tching about $8 a month when they have fewer commercials than they have OTA. Instead of having 4 or 5 commercials per break you get 1 or two and, OMG, it's $8 a month!?!? I mean, who in the world would pay for that?!?!?! Umm... How much do you pay for your cable? 30 - 40 if not more. So you get a DVR? Well, that's nice, you're basically paying an additional $10 a month to be able to skip most of the commercials you are paying for with your regular cable feed. Hulu remains the only place where you can go to see all the previous seasons of tons of shows. Compare Hulu+ to Apple's solution. You get ad-free TV shows but if you watch more than, what, 4, it's already advantage Hulu. Yeah, it'd be nice if it was commercial free but let's be honest here - Apple's solution charges much, much, much more for the same content to be ad-free. If you want ad free you'd need to pay at least $30 a month which, ironically enough, is about the minimum you'd pay for real cable.
Hulu+ is still, to me, the best game in town for TV shows. You wait 1 day, you end up with maybe 3 mins of commercials for an hour long show and you don't have to wait an enternity for it to show up on NetFlix.
So - cable - $30+, Hulu+ $8. Both have commercials, Hulu has fewer of them and they are all available on-demand. I really have no idea why people complain about it so much...
My thoughts exactly. An entire generation of freeloaders seem to have joined Apple's user-base. It's painful reading the comments sometimes.
According to Dealmac, you can pay for this through your iTunes account, so I assume that Apple gets their standard cut for people who subscribe that way. I hope this is a precursor to a full-blown app store for ATV.
OK, this is definitely a Steve A.D. deal, as Steve would never allow this to happen. I'm actually really glad to see this happen as I can now watch Hulu in my bedroom. I'm almost ready to kill my Netflix subscription once I get in all of my Breaking Bad episodes. Hulu just seems more reasonable, even with the adverts. I spend 7 or 8 bucks for the DVR feature and this more than makes up for the ability to record. Plus I can go back and watch episodes from long ago.
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Originally Posted by payeco
HBO Go next please!
This!
While I'm glad Hulu Plus is added for those that use it and also to allow for better competition- It's something I won't use. HBO Go... that I absolutely would and is fantastic for On Demand HBO shows- and gorgeous UI to boot (on iPad). Come on Apple/HBO.... make it happen.... Microsoft/HBO did already......
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Originally Posted by Basil
And, no, you can't watch standard (free) Hulu content on it. Just like always. And just like on every other device. That's not Apple's fault, and it's not Hulu's fault. That's the content rights owners that are preventing the content from being streamed to a mobile or set-top box. No, I don't like it. But, I don't blame Chevrolet is there's not a road going where I want to go.
What you are seeing is people who don't use Hulu Plus complaining about that b/c it is completely counter intuitive. I don't have Hulu Plus and it makes absolutely zero sense to me why they wouldn't allow the free content to stream. I don't want to have to mirror my screen to the TV when I want to watch some shows and use the app for others. That's stupid. Netflix works fine for my family's needs tho so I'm ok.
I am surprised the Beeb and Apple haven't done a deal by now. It could be a huge revenue earner for the BBC. I know many here in the States would love to have it.
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Originally Posted by AppleZilla
Excellent. Hulu+ may be eight bucks a month, but for that you get many more episodes of current shows and some full seasons.
What's the quality? Does it approach HD?
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What's the quality? Does it approach HD?
It's pretty good actually - probably about the same as the old 720p iTunes.
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I seriously don't see how they expect AppleTV to catch on with all this nonsense and unreliability built into the model.
Getting country-by-country copyrights is a headache. Cross-border rights barely exist. You should take it up with your Canadian Ministry of Whatever.... :-)
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Originally Posted by Sedicivalvole
If they were to allow iPlayer, Demand 5, 4OD and iTV Player then they would have a very desirable box...
Yes please, that would be fantastic.
Cool story. I personally launched Hulu on the Apple TV a few days ago with Airplay Mirroring. For free.
What a lot of people don't know and I only found out through their free trial on Xbox, is that half the content available to everyone for free in their browser is unavailable for Hulu PLus on devices due to various licensing restrictions between Hulu and its content providers. Very lame. Hulu Plus just isn't a great deal. Even less great if you have Mountain Lion and can just beam everything to your TV for free. Sure, you have to pay to watch season two of The Office or whatever, but you could do that with Netflix and get a whole bunch of other popular shows that Hulu doesn't even offer (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Louie, the list goes on and on).
On a side note I would love to see PBS get an app on Apple TV. Their iOS apps are fantastic. I also wouldn't mind paying for access to BBC's iPlayer since I am in the States and usually have to resort to 'other methods' to get the latest Top Gear or Brian Cox helicopter on a mountain astronomy/physics lesson
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Originally Posted by digitalclips
I am surprised the Beeb and Apple haven't done a deal by now. It could be a huge revenue earner for the BBC. I know many here in the States would love to have it.
I know there was a global version of the BBC iPlayer App for iPad in the works but I don't know what happened to it.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/jul/28/bbc-iplayer-global-ipad-launch
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Originally Posted by anantksundaram
Getting country-by-country copyrights is a headache. Cross-border rights barely exist. You should take it up with your Canadian Ministry of Whatever.... :-)
Well, I know it's a headache and hard to do etc., just that their record so far is essentially zero after about six years of trying. Funny joke about the government etc. but of course it's nothing to do with the government at all.
I don't know the ins and outs of it all but it's safe to assume with zero progress after all this time that it is the content owners that are actually holding everything back. Like the music industry they will probably have to be taken to the brink of collapse before they see the value in moving forward into the future. They are still thinking of the Internet as "a service that runs on my laptop" instead of what it really is, which is the new backbone of the new distribution system. Curiously I think Apple's Airplay in OS X will be a major factor in moving them forward as the concept of keeping somethings "on your computer" and other things "on your TV" is a false distinction that is exposed by the fact that you can now stream your computer to the TV anyway.