How Hulu Lost Its Place In a Netflix World
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#2with the exception of sports and certain “event programs”
Yeah but that's a hell of a big exception. People are willing to pay a lot of money for those.
My household "cut the cord" [we're Netflix-only, no cable/satellite/OTA] and the only thing we miss are the sports - even if I had to pay $20 to, say, watch an F1 race online, I'd still be way ahead of what I used to pay for cable/satellite, so I would likely pay hulu (or whoever) for it.
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#3I think they need Hulu Plus on more devices, and then their current model might work out better. I'm still waiting for it to be available for Xbox 360.
At the same time, I can't remember the last time I watched something on Hulu, so maybe I'm not hurting for it like it would be if I didn't have Netflix.
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#4I'm waiting for netflix to start cutting deals to stream shows the day after they air, a la Apple. I'd happily subscribe for $20/show to subsidize additional costs on netflix's side.
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#5I completely get why people love Netflix. But if Hulu can't be a serious competitor, who will be? I don't want Netflix to be my only appealing streaming option, and I don't want to pay cable operators a ton of money for stuff I don't watch.
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#6As an Ubuntu user in Canada, they've both lost their place in my world. Netflix is here, finally - 12 or 13 years later than the USA - but they don't support Ubuntu. And Hulu's still constrained to There's so much room in this space to innovate, with Step 1 being LEAVE THE USA! And Step 2: Use the WEB! Why can't we get rid of these proprietary plugins?
Any company that does both 1 and 2 will be immensely successful.
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#7with the exception of sports and certain “event programs” Yeah but that's a hell of a big exception. People are willing to pay a lot of money for those. My household "cut the cord" [we're Netflix-only, no cable/satellite/OTA] and the only thing we miss are the sports - even if I had to pay $20 to, say, watch an F1 race online, I'd still be way ahead of what I used to pay for cable/satellite, so I would likely pay hul…
I'm hardly the one to pay for anything, but I do play for netflix. And at just $15, it's a far far better alternative than paying for cable. I get to watch anything, at any time that I want? It's the way TV should be nowadays.
the only downside is that netflix recommendations don't work too well for me. Too often, I spend more time picking what to watch, rather than just watching something.
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#8I'd like to see this statement sourced...
And studios, despite some hemming and hawing, would ultimately rather make a lucrative — reportedly up to $100,000 per mid-season episode — deal with Netflix than rely on middling ad revenue on Hulu.
$100,000 isn't that much. Put it this way. The show Two and a Half Men pays its three stars a combined $3.2 million per episode. Another example is Big Bang Theory which just made a deal for 3 more seasons in which the network will pay $4 million per episode (and is probably making way more)
CABLE pays around $2 million per episode to syndicate the very shows Netflix is offering $100,000 for (http://tinyurl.com/48c5zo9)
So $100,000 an episode is more a joke than a real offer that Hollywood is seriously considering.
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#9I'm waiting for netflix to start cutting deals to stream shows the day after they air, a la Apple. I'd happily subscribe for $20/show to subsidize additional costs on netflix's side.
Unless you only watch 3 shows, isn't cable with a DVR a better value?
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#10Hulu started to lose when they started limiting the devices that could access it. Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.