Posts Tagged with ‘hulu’

Up until now, having a movie night with friends or family meant that everybody had to get together at someone's house and gather in front of the television (or visiting a local movie theater). Now however, using it's patent-pending SimulStream technology, Lycos Cinema (when was the last time you heard anything from Lycos?!) introduces a web-based service that lets multiple users view the same movie or TV episode while socializing at the same time with [...]

So Hulu launched to a combination of hype and cynicism and Michael Eisner is convinced that Internet content will equal television in the next five years. Eisner is already producing his second digital-only series to prove his point. But what's the reality of Internet video content?
Dan Frommer at Sillicon Alley Insider says he got rid of his cable subscription, figuring he can save money in the long run by downloading content instead. But as he notes, with Time Warner testing [...]

With News Corp. and NBC offering up such oldies as The A-Team, Kojak, Partridge Family, and S.W.A.T. (among many others) to their online audience at Hulu and other NBC sites, it only seems logical that other television networks would follow suit in offering former fan favorite shows for viewing via the internet.
Today, CBS has become the latest network to join the online old-school bandwagon, as the company's CBS Interactive division has announced that some of their classic televisions shows [...]

Since its launch at the end of October, Hulu has changed the opinions of many of its negative critics with outstanding features implemented into a clean and easy-to-navigate interface.
Not only that, but the private beta testing phase that the service has been under since going live also appears to be receiving all of the attention and updates necessary to provide a successful public launch, whenever that may be planned for. 
The way I see it, online video [...]

The wait is over (at least for me), and now I have finally received a chance to test out Hulu, the recently launched video service that had me scratching my head just a few short months ago.
Early on in the development process of Hulu, there seemed to be no clear focus on what exactly the service would provide or even what name it would assume upon launch, which left more than a few journalists and bloggers wary of what NBC [...]

NBC has now officially launched the download service for its television programming, known as NBC Direct, although initial plans had called for an October launch. Now, at no cost, anyone can download full episodes of a wide variety of NBC programs including Heroes, The Office, Bionic Woman, and Las Vegas among others.
The service is available as a public beta and requires Windows Media Player as well as Internet Explorer in order to watch videos in the service's custom player.
What I [...]

Today's launch of Hulu (and its partnership with Comcast) reminded me of Fancast, which is a hybrid entertainment portal from the cable service provider.
Back in August when I reviewed Fancast, I admired it and described it as “web 2.0 meets IMDB meets TV Guide” for its comprehensive database of movies and television shows that also provided viewers with TV listings in an effort to help visitors decide what to watch each day on television.
Just as expected, my visit to [...]

Just to freshen your memories in case anyone forgot about Hulu, it is the joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal that was announced in March, unnamed until the end of August, and delayed from a September private beta launch until now, the end of October. As expected, the online video service launched today to a limited crowd of private beta testers, and dare I say it actually looks promising.
Ok… So I haven't actually tested the service or even [...]

The last few years have been replete with announcements of the birth of new companies, the acquisition/sale of a great many entities, new products and services, and so on and so forth. The Internet’s a-growin’, for sure.
Heck, just today, a decent selection of media companies delivered as a private beta the much-hyped IPTV service, Hulu, for the press and a select few others to play with and spread word about. As expected, they’re talking. Talking quite glowingly about it, really.
And [...]