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Good - I hope that means they will stay around and continue to grow. I certainly don't mind paying a modest monthly fee for quality programming on demand. It couldn't be near as much as DirecTV was charging me before I switched to Hulu.
Wow, maybe I'm just getting old and cantankerous, but the word freetard is seeming more and more apropos every day. I've pretty much abandoned Hulu as Netflix's streaming library grows. $14/month or whatever is a tiny amount to pay for that amount and quality of on-demand commercial-free content.
i'd pay for a live version of hulu with all of the archives available. i canceled my directv subscription a while back and just download the few shows i care about that come through torrent rss feeds. if i could watch them live via something like hulu, but then also access them whenever i wanted after that point, i'd be a customer.
Sounds like you need usenet. Well worth the subscription price.
Don't judge me.
Good - I hope that means they will stay around and continue to grow. I certainly don't mind paying a modest monthly fee for quality programming on demand. It couldn't be near as much as DirecTV was charging me before I switched to Hulu.
Just out of interest, what is the maximum price point that will still make you pay?
My DirecTV was ~$75/month with taxes which cost me around $2/hour based on 1hr a day. I switched to Hulu because my costs went from $75 to $0. I'd probably be willing to pay up to $30/month commercial free or $15/month with commercials.
I do wonder if Hulu will seriously be able to compete with cable when Comcast is on the board.
i'd pay for a live version of hulu with all of the archives available. i canceled my directv subscription a while back and just download the few shows i care about that come through torrent rss feeds. if i could watch them live via something like hulu, but then also access them whenever i wanted after that point, i'd be a customer.
The upside of this is that I watch far less TV because it has a real and immediate cost (especially if it's not on Hulu). The downside is that the endless buffering and stuttering I get on Hulu drives me crazy. I know that my ISP may be partly to blame, but that makes Hulu a lot less valuable to me than the downloadable iTunes option. There's been more than one evening were Hulu simply refused to work reliably and I ended up purchasing the commercial-free episodes on iTunes instead. Ironically, the iTunes downloads were so fast that I could watch the shows immediately as if they were streaming with the added bonus of actually owning the episode so I could watch it again later - perhaps long after Hulu removed it.
Good. The fact that it's free means I almost never look there first for content, because I know what I want won't be there.
Just like the public library. Or Hacker News. Or... Sorry, but I find your argument fallacious.
In fact, I don't even go there for books. I know they don't have what I want, and Amazon does. I go there to work.