Posted on 05/01/2009 8:53:34 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hulu has a good business model.
People are already accustomed to commercials, and the 15-30 second ones they use are rather unobtrusive, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go to longer commercial breaks in the future as they aquire more advertisers.
They have a lot of TV shows, but are a little short on movies. They have a better chance of building their content library, because they can pay for it with the commercials.
Hulu give over the air channels (ABC, NBC, etc...) a seconary outlet the never had before. Reruns are reruns. Who cares if they run on Hulu or some cable channel, as long as they get paid.
When you start seeing live content (sporting events, news,etc...) broadcast over the internet (and you will eventually) cable companies will collapse.
Oh, dear - you mean I can’t be a member of the group of imbecile geeks flushing their lives down the toilet expending all their waking hours keeping up with every new technological development. Boo hoo... ;-)
I watch Hulu alot more than Youtube
JoMa
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