This past Wednesday the streaming video content site Hulu opened to the public. For those of you who don’t know Hulu is the video content site that the major networks (i.e. NBC, Fox, etc ...) decided to release in response to all of the “piracy” the Internet provides to its user base. So instead they did something quite positive and decided to put up their own content site, one that they could control.
So now to the good stuff, the Hulu site itself is a pretty standard content streaming site; with the exception that the content that is provided is mostly content that is provided by mainstream media. It contains a wide array of TV shows and a few full length featured movies that can be view via the web. The content is ad supported so you will get ads in the middle of all this good streaming but its definitely a step in the right direction. The ad breaks are single segments so it’s not as annoying as actual TV but they due happen multiple times over a single episode/viewing of a single TV show or movie. Overall the video quality is decent and very watch-able on a computer. The amount of content listed on the site is also very impressive since it contains quite a few television shows and a few movies that I’d actually want to see.
Although Hulu provides a great deal of content to its users, it seems pretty incomplete. The majority of the television shows only have partial episode lists. Now this is just a minor complaint and can easily be fixed if Hulu starts posting entire seasons. The inability to skip to certain sections of a show/movie is kind of annoying but tolerable. Over all I’m pretty impressed with Hulu but I do write this thinking that this really isn’t that much better than other content sites out there, aside from the amount of mainstream media content. So is Hulu the end all be all solution, no but I do believe I’ll still be watching a few more episodes of Family Guy.
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