Hulu is eliminating its free, ad-supported streaming service

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Post by kilink » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:14 PM UTC

Hulu is eliminating its free, ad-supported streaming service
theverge.com

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Post by allsystemsgo » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:31 PM UTC

Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.

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Post by mark_l_watson » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:38 PM UTC

allsystemsgo wrote: post #2

Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.

We pay $12/month so Hulu diesn't show us ads. Really worth the extra money.

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Post by JTon » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:39 PM UTC

allsystemsgo wrote: post #2

Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.

Apparently, that exists. From the article:

> Hulu will still have advertising. The two current paid tiers — $7.99 a month with some ads and completely ad-free at $11.99 a month — are going to remain.

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Post by pacomerh » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:44 PM UTC

Thats fine. The only option that makes sense to me is the highest plan. It's all or nothing

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Post by kevin_b_er » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

So you can PAY to see ads just like cable TV.

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Post by chjohasbrouck » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

A couple years ago I was watching Hulu and noticed the ads always felt like they took much longer to play than they should.

I got out my iPhone and timed the seconds as they counted down during ad time on Hulu. Each second of ad time on Hulu took 1.34 seconds of actual time to pass. They were telling you for example, that there were 2 minutes of ads about to play, but the 120 second countdown would actually take 160 seconds to pass.

I stopped watching Hulu altogether after that discovery. I think I checked back in more recently and they had stopped doing that, but it's still a little telling about where their head is at regarding ads and their customers.

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Post by annieipr » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:52 PM UTC

Don't know why they still force you to watch commercials for anything that is on FOX even when you pay the upgrade.

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Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:54 PM UTC

allsystemsgo wrote: post #2

Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.

They have an ad-free tier. Some people prefer to pay slightly less for the ad-full tier.

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Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 8:55 PM UTC

kevin_b_er wrote: post #6

So you can PAY to see ads just like cable TV.

Unlike cable TV, you can pay more to not see ads.