The site now has opened its Hulu Plus to the US. They dropped the price from 9.99 which was for the private trial to 7.99. They also credited anyone who was paying 9.99 an extra 2/month that you paid it.
I personally love it. I have had it for a few months now and constantly watch it on my iPhone and HTPC. Access to full shows and not just the most recent season and someone also noticed that compared to their regular account, some of the new shows appeared faster from what I hear.
I really like it (the concept that is, I haven’t used hulu plus yet)…I hope the boxee pulls through and gets them on-board. I think this will be really successful if there are some TV connect able devices that can access it.
When my contract is up with FIOS I’m seriously considering dumping the TV portion and going this route. My new TV has hulu plus support built in so between that and usenet I don’t see why I’m paying big bucks for “cable”. It’s cheap enough to get boxes for the other TV’s that have hulu plus support.
EDIT: Watching the sabes game the other night in HD, then having it skip and glitch like a motherfucker was the last straw. It’s been nothing but problems with them.
Ya it seems like now that its public, the Hulu Plus platform is whats going to be on the devices so there should be some new devices coming out. I wouldn’t be surprised if a Hulu Box comes out soon similar to the Boxxe Box.
Between eztv that releases all the tv shows I watch the night of and my hulu plus, I haven’t had cable for months and I love it. Def a nice $80+ in my pocket. I wouldn’t go back to cable/sattelite unless you really can make al la carte packages that I can really drill down and pick what channels I want. I am not paying for 500 channels of shit.
I live in the city and have a $20 antenna from radioshack sitting on a speaker next to my TV and get all the local channels crystal clear. For ESPN, don’t they have a online subscription that gets you access to their tv over broadband?
I wish there was a decent network streamer that would play 1080p mkv and do hulu plus. Boxee says “working on it” but I wouldn’t buy one based on that weak promise. Your only real option is build an HTPC.
boxee is saying EARLY 2011 for hulu plus…I’m gonna wait it out I think. If I can put a boxee box with Hulu plus on my main TV and get 90% of the programming I do now, I’m gonna do it, at least for a month to see how it goes.
