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Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by jasonkester »

paul7986 wrote: post #22
jasonkester wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can fullscreen Hulu onto your TV with a laptop. It's like a $5 cable.

yeah or get a mac mini and put in your tv cabinet and connect it to your LCD TV. Use a wireless mouse as a remote. You can watch Hulu, YouTube, theWB, joost, cbsnews.com/video, tv.com, wbkids.com and others this way.

Amazing isn't it. 2009 and we're finally able to watch television on a TV.

Personally, I'm still working on a way to stream internet radio out over my iPod car adapter so that I can listen to it on the radio.

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by ja2ke »

nikblack wrote: post #24

There is some background to this that is interesting. The reason why the content holders behind Hulu didn't want their content on Boxee was because it came too close to replicating the television experience. While the advertising was kept in place, it still doesn't attract the rates that normal television does. Given a choice, content holders definitely prefer viewers to tune into ordinary broadcast television to wat…

Seems like the solution would be to embrace Boxee and then raise your advertising rates because you've now got TV audience eyeballs watching Hulu content instead of Firefox-window eyeballs.

I guess it's at that moment that you notice the whisps of steam rise from the snout and the lazily opening eye, and realize that Comcast over in the corner was never asleep at all, but saw the whole thing.

... oops somehow I failed to notice a 4 hour old reply saying the same thing. Apologies.

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by zhyder »

bjtitus wrote: post #38
zhyder wrote: post #29

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I know. But when you bring up the same show on TV using over-the-air/satellite/cable you see more ads.

Then why don't they shut Hulu down?

1. Hulu is where they're testing the waters of Internet distribution; it's still a limited experiment.

2. They're hoping Hulu -because of its requirement of a computer- won't cannibalize their broadcast TV shows. In terms of their bottom line, Hulu > pirated shows on the Internet, but Hulu Edit: nikblack explains it more eloquently in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486620

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by twoism »

paul7986 wrote: post #22
jasonkester wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can fullscreen Hulu onto your TV with a laptop. It's like a $5 cable.

yeah or get a mac mini and put in your tv cabinet and connect it to your LCD TV. Use a wireless mouse as a remote. You can watch Hulu, YouTube, theWB, joost, cbsnews.com/video, tv.com, wbkids.com and others this way.

AppleTV + Boxee was the reason I cut out cable all together.

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by tocomment »

Timothee wrote: post #39
tocomment wrote: post #26

Dumb, question but what is boxee? Why would I use it? I honestly couldn't figure it out from their website nor the wikipedia article about boxee.

It's a media center software (based on XMBC) with a focus on online content with videos from Hulu, Netflix, Comedy Central, YouTube, torrents, etc.; pictures from PicasaWeb and Flickr, music from last.fm, NPR, etc. Why should you use it? It's a great step towards combining online content with a TV. It has a lot of pieces that are missing from AppleTV. (even though it's possible to install Boxee on AppleTV :))

I have a mac mini. Will it let me use the included remote to control it?

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by Watts »

tocomment wrote: post #45
Timothee wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a media center software (based on XMBC) with a focus on online content with videos from Hulu, Netflix, Comedy Central, YouTube, torrents, etc.; pictures from PicasaWeb and Flickr, music from last.fm, NPR, etc. Why should you use it? It's a great step towards combining online content with a TV. It has a lot of pieces that are missing from AppleTV. (even though it's possible to install Boxee on AppleTV :))

I have a mac mini. Will it let me use the included remote to control it?

I tried it on my iMac, and yes you can use the Apple remote to control it.

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by jcl »

jasonkester wrote: post #41
paul7986 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah or get a mac mini and put in your tv cabinet and connect it to your LCD TV. Use a wireless mouse as a remote. You can watch Hulu, YouTube, theWB, joost, cbsnews.com/video, tv.com, wbkids.com and others this way.

Amazing isn't it. 2009 and we're finally able to watch television on a TV. Personally, I'm still working on a way to stream internet radio out over my iPod car adapter so that I can listen to it on the radio.

Again, life imitates The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39109

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by misterbwong »

I really like the way that Boxee and Hulu are handling this. At least they are being honest with their motivations and not trying to strong-arm users with legal mumbo-jumbo.

That said, this is very unfortunate news. Just this week, I was contemplating replacing my cable with boxee/internet streams. Oh well.

Re: Hulu requests removal from Boxee

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Post by noahlt »

swlevy wrote: post #9
abstractbill wrote: post #6

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The old-media guys who made this decision almost certainly don't have a clue what RSS is. I share your viewpoint, but there are (still) many dinosaurs running this industry.

It isn't quite that simple; I work for an "old media" company, and for us, Boxee jumped the gun by ingesting content prior to having the requisite agreement. Since they did not consult our developers, our ads were not implemented correctly, and we weren't getting paid (even though Boxee's users may have been seeing the ads).

"Since they did not consult our developers, our ads were not implemented correctly, and we weren't getting paid (even though Boxee's users may have been seeing the ads)."

Honest question: don't you normally pay for ads, rather than getting paid for them? I must be missing something here.

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