A low cost Hulu subscription service with 720p streaming and I might consider an iPad. Like others here I dumped my cable service got an eyeTV tuner and use Hulu for 90% of my 'TV' intake. An iPad with Hulu's vast selection would be hard to pass over.
Forged to challenge the dominance of Apple's iTunes ecosystem, online TV streaming service Hulu will reportedly embrace the platform with an iPad app that may offer an all-you-can eat subscription service to challenge Apple's al a carte model.
The New York Times cites four people briefed on the matter as saying that they 'believe' Hulu may test a subscription approach to its catalog of streaming TV shows through the forthcoming app, which wasn't given a release date.
A joint venture of NBC Universal, the News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company, Hulu has seen its ad-supported, browser-based streaming service generate revenues of more than $100 million and triple monthly streams to 903 million over the past year.
But this success has caught the attention of many of Hulu's content suppliers who are now pressuring the company to increase their share of the revenues and open doors to better monetization techniques, such as a subscription service that asks consumers to pay a monthly fee to gain unlimited access to a broad assortment of shows.
Apple held similar aspirations in the lead-up to this weekend's iPad launch but was forced to table its own $30 per month subscription efforts due to opposition from its network partners.
The networks were reportedly weary of the strategy, fearing it could ultimately hurt their business and jeopardize "the tens of billions of dollars in subscription fees they are paid by cable and satellite companies for their traditional TV networks."
Rumors of Hulu's plans for the iPad have been brewing for months ever since the company was reported to be developing an Apple-friendly version of its website that would operate without the need for Adobe's Flash video format, which isn't supported on Apple's mobile devices.
So it's not Hulu or Apple, but it's the networks that are saying "Squeeze more money out of this" ??
<snip> (hey, leave Lost out of this)
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Is the ad revenue seriously not enough? They're going to bastardize Hulu in order to make more money?
Not to pick on you or anything, but "bastardize Hulu in order to make money?". Seriously? Why do you think Hulu exists? Because Hulu execs want you to have easy access to expensive content? HA!
Hulu exists because network execs think there may be serious money in it at some point--either from adds, subscriptions or both. I doubt that current add revenue is significant at all. If serious money does not materialize, Hulu will be abandoned or crippled...
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Forged to challenge the dominance of Apple's iTunes ecosystem, online TV streaming service Hulu will reportedly embrace the platform with an iPad app that may offer an all-you-can eat subscription service to challenge Apple's al a carte model.
The New York Times cites four people briefed on the matter as saying that they 'believe' Hulu may test a subscription approach to its catalog of streaming TV shows through the forthcoming app, which wasn't given a release date.
A joint venture of NBC Universal, the News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company, Hulu has seen its ad-supported, browser-based streaming service generate revenues of more than $100 million and triple monthly streams to 903 million over the past year.
But this success has caught the attention of many of Hulu's content suppliers who are now pressuring the company to increase their share of the revenues and open doors to better monetization techniques, such as a subscription service that asks consumers to pay a monthly fee to gain unlimited access to a broad assortment of shows.
Apple held similar aspirations in the lead-up to this weekend's iPad launch but was forced to table its own $30 per month subscription efforts due to opposition from its network partners.
The networks were reportedly weary of the strategy, fearing it could ultimately hurt their business and jeopardize "the tens of billions of dollars in subscription fees they are paid by cable and satellite companies for their traditional TV networks."
Rumors of Hulu's plans for the iPad have been brewing for months ever since the company was reported to be developing an Apple-friendly version of its website that would operate without the need for Adobe's Flash video format, which isn't supported on Apple's mobile devices.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ]
I would much rather buy all my content from the iTunes store, thankyouverymuch.
If a Netflix app really appears on Sat, my interest in Hulu really just went waayy down.
It's there today, in the App Store.
So it's not Hulu or Apple, but it's the networks that are saying "Squeeze more money out of this" ??
<snip> (hey, leave Lost out of this)
Is the ad revenue seriously not enough? They're going to bastardize Hulu in order to make more money?
Not to pick on you or anything, but "bastardize Hulu in order to make money?". Seriously? Why do you think Hulu exists? Because Hulu execs want you to have easy access to expensive content? HA!
Hulu exists because network execs think there may be serious money in it at some point--either from adds, subscriptions or both. I doubt that current add revenue is significant at all. If serious money does not materialize, Hulu will be abandoned or crippled...