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By: Boxee Stays in Its Box | Josh Braun's Blog

Boxee Stays in Its Box | Josh Braun's Blog — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:12:30 +0000

[...] owning Hulu apparently became concerned that the application might be a cord-cutting tool and demanded that Boxee remove access to Hulu content from the software, users wrote screenscrapers (to grab [...]

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By: Huluminus

Huluminus — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:26:50 +0000

I cancelled Hulu+ due to this. You may rely on content providers for, well, content, but you rely on consumers to fund your purchase of said content.

p.s. Thanks for the partial refund ;)

By: tylerh

tylerh — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:53:50 +0000

Let’s go. Make it happen, already!

By: Rondo

Rondo — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:38:00 +0000

I have absolutely no interest in Hulu Plus since it cannot interface with my Boxee Box. I will spend my money elsewhere.

By: Satyen

Satyen — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:46:43 +0000

It’s unfortunate this continues to be unresolved. With the launch of Hulu Plus and Boxee’s ability to manage its subscriptions, I would think this would be an easy win for both parties, and would be a nice add-on for whichever organization wants to buy Hulu during this bidding process. It’s a much better alternative for consumers when compared to the pricing model for AppleTV.

By: john

john — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:38:54 +0000

huh. was thinking about hulu plus, but if it won’t play with my boxee, forget it.

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:23:54 +0000

Well with Boxee Box being so new this move will change a lot of buying decisions away from Boxee

By: Don Decker

Don Decker — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:55:04 +0000

I know this is an old post, but the debate still remains. The best thing is to just connect a computer to the TV and watch everything that’s out there. I use the iVox.tv app http://www.ivox.tv/app It has a full featured web browser built in so I can watch all the content that’s out there. I use my iPhone to control the cursor from my couch. Nice setup.. No restrictions.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:43:03 +0000

Heres my problem here, it is just so much easier for my kids to hop onto the boxee i created for them, i put some of their dvds on it, and they are allowed to pick some shows… hulu being gone makes it so frustrating as now they can’t watch half of what they used too. yeah i could bring it up via internet, but that is not easy for the kids to deal with.

By: a_p3rson

a_p3rson — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:19:43 +0000

I don’t see how watching it in Boxee is any different from watching it in another browser. All that Boxee does is put it in full screen and add play and pause controls to it. They still have the adverts you guys put in there, there’s really no change. If you would like to maybe make it so the Boxee version is with a few more ads, I think the entire community would be much more happy.

By: Bryant Bair

Bryant Bair — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:08:22 +0000

Well, right now Hulu seems to think that my computer is a Boxee and won’t let me watch Hulu Plus which I have paid for. I had never heard of Boxee before it popped up on my Hulu so I guess Hulu is doing their advertising for them.

By: Bill Daly

Bill Daly — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:47:44 +0000

I’m officially boycotting Hulu for their shameful money-hungry practices & disrespect of the tech community!! Discrimination is discusting!!

Face it Jason… you are NO advocate for “the bigger picture”!! It’s clear your ability to convince the content providers of reality is pathetic at best or you are too busy keeping silent with all that marketing money coming in from ad revenues. To say you all are doing good and are on our side is disrespectful at best and a lie at worst! Don’t lie to us an tell us you aren’t making money out of this either cause your overhead is very little compared to commericial revenues you are undoubtedly receiving!

Why don’t you remind the content providers of all the piracy and lost revenues not hitting their pockets because of their inability to embrace the future. An infant could have made a more compelling case than you have in defense of this hard reality facing them. Content providers who feel they are in control of their own destinies should put there finger in a bowl of water and see the impression thats left when they pull their finger out… none! Apple convinced the music industry to embrace the future… you can do the same for IPTV and content providers!

Discriminating against specific browsers and innovations is only going to lead to informal monopolies and more theft not only of Hulu’s content providers content, but of the people who work only for the love of technology to provide people with innovative solutions, as well as discouraging inventors entirely. Nobody will win this war… nobody!

I would encourage you to countinuously reach out to intelligent advocates of the IPTV movement, innovators and content providers continuously, until this delima is resolved… not only for the future success or lack there of for Hulu, but also for the cause which you so falsely defend! I know someone out there has the ability to convince fairly intelligent people of reasonable efforts… this is who you must find to vigorously defend your “so-called” intentions!

I will continue to boycott Hulu until I find a genuine and considerable effort from you personally to making this commitment, as a representative of the IPTV community!!!

Regards,

Bill Daly

By: Cristobal Escamilla

Cristobal Escamilla — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:44:51 +0000

Now that hulu plus is available, I won’t be paying for it if I can’t get hulu in boxee, even if I do have a PS3 and a XBOX360 I could play it on… Boxee was so inexpesnvie and great it rocked, it´s been one year, what are you waiting to solve it? 1 year is no “short term” in digital industry.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:37:29 +0000

You guys should bring Hulu back to Boxee, I think you’re making a huge mistake.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:12:51 +0000

According to the article, nothing was hacked. It was a viral scheme. This isn’t hacking, its people voting.

By: Mike Clauss/fellow ex-amazonian

Mike Clauss/fellow ex-amazonian — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:51:24 +0000

Jason, I think the title of your post says it all- its a tough spot between corporate interests and the consumer demands. In the short term I think people will still enjoy Hulu as its still a great experience in its online form. Over the longer term, this obviously has to be addressed as the convergence in the living room continues and grows..m

By: NBC, Hulu Point Fingers in Boxee Blame Game

NBC, Hulu Point Fingers in Boxee Blame Game — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:36:01 +0000

[...] contradicts what Hulu CEO Jason Kilar wrote at the time. In a blog post entitled “Doing Hard Things” in which he explained the situation, Kilar wrote that it [...]

By: M.H. Elliott

M.H. Elliott — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:29:19 +0000

Though we have had a professional check our internet connection and set up a profile with Hulu, no matter which show we click on we continue to receive the following:
” Sorry, we are unable to stream this video. Please check your internet connection and try again.”
Please advise.
Thank you,
M.H. Elliott