Rumors of Hulu's Subscription Plans

whychevron found a story discussing Hulu's plan to offer subscriptions. The rumor is that $10 a month will grant paying users the ability to get episodes older than the last five, while the current five episodes remain ad-supported. This starts pitting Hulu even more squarely against iTunes for anyone who watches more than a few shows a month.

Meh.

[Anonymous Coward]

The pirate bay still has less rules, restrictions, and offers more. For a much lower price.

What is the value of something that can be replicated perfectly. Forever. For free?

Exactly...

Re:Meh.

[MightyMartian]

Because the odds of me getting a letter stating that I need to deliver my left nut to the MPAA's legal department or be run over by their legal team are considerably less likely going through something like Hulu than TPB.

Re:Ads

[Beelzebud]

Once upon a time the promise of cable TV was that there would be no commercials.

Too bad TV viewers are mostly lazy, because when they started airing commercials on paid TV, no one seemed to get outraged about it.

Re:I'd pay it

[Lord Byron II]

lol, you'd better have a bunch of upload bandwidth to spare. I tried that when I was overseas and found that at low quality, Hulu needed around 50KB/s to remain stutter-free. Which is about double what my ISP gives me, so I spent a lot of time watching the buffer fill.

Re:Netflix has a better plan for only $8.99

[keytoe]

By the very nature of how they acquire their content, Netflix on demand doesn't have the current season of shows. Hulu does.

Re:I'd pay it

[cortesoft]

The upload bandwidth he was talking about is for the VPN tunnel.... since the person hosting the VPN on the US side would have to stream the feed from Hulu to the guy outside the US.

Re:I'd pay it

[bertoelcon]

Most shows that would already be on ad supported networks have commercial cuts in the show that are usually noticeable in a copy that is all one piece, if they put a small ad in there in is not going to cut the flow any more than having seen it when it aired.

Re:I'd pay it

[billcopc]

No need to protect the guilty, Bell and Rogers are attempting to stop Hulu from entering the market, because they know the first thing that will happen is users will blow their unreasonably low caps and yell at CS reps until their useless little heads explode.

The last thing the Canadian Duopoly wants is a legitimate use for all the bandwidth they've been keeping from us.