Comments on: Doing Hard Things

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

By: pat

pat — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:42:16 +0000

no sound from hulu on my computer
i receive sound from other stations
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By: Paul D

Paul D — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:07:48 +0000

Mr. Kilar your thoughts make perfect sense and I agree. The best way to win this battle is to show your willingness to work with the networks. I am sure all rasonable people understand that your great idea and admorable ambition is not leverage to try and play hardball with network giants,

I would like to thank”K2″ for wasting all of our time! What kind of issues one must have to spend ones days searching blogs for a type-o, mispelled word or a grammar slip.

By: J.C.

J.C. — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:29:17 +0000

Hulu worked fine (smoothly & in sync) with my iMac G4/800 15″ (2002) from 9-08 to 8-10-09.

OS 10.4.11, Firefox, FLASH 10, AT&T Yahoo!”Pro” DSL (2.57 mbps)

1GB RAM, 32MB of Nivida Geforce 2X AGP VRAM, 7200 rpm HDD.

Ever since then Hulu takes half an hour to get up to speed….. be it TV or Movies.

EVENTUALLY it plays fine, and then next program is also fine.

What gives??

Jesse F. Carroll

By: Confused

Confused — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:49:17 +0000

what is so hard about inserting ads into the flv stream and allowing any client to watch it?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:13:05 +0000

The users are blaming the wrong guys. Hulu doesn’t hold the copyright on any of the content they make available to us. The person who wanted to know “what happened to the little startup……” should realize that when HULU was the new kid on block and they were flying under the radar, it was much easier to make loads of content available. Anyone who had illusions of that situation going on unchecked was kidding themselves. As soon as the networks took an interest in what they were doing, I knew things would change.
You should commend HULU for their efforts to bring us the content, while still remaining in the good graces of the networks and on the right side of the law.
Label HULU practices any way you choose, but realize that if they don’t play by the rules they’ll get crushed by the networks. The fact that they are still up and running says a lot.
I’m sure any one who is out there chanting “fight the man!!” will be welcome to hire on at HULU provided you are willing to accept resposibility for 100% of the extremely large lawsuits that will follow when you “fight the man” .
Hulu, thanks for trying. I miss someof the content we’ve lost but I still watch regularly. I appreciate your efforts.

PS. K2, are you friggin’ kidding me? regards, from someone who could care less about the poor guy’s grammar.

By: Brokenhearted

Brokenhearted — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:23 +0000

Dear Hulu,

you should have had the willingness to support YOUR interest by supporting YOUR viewers; instead, you bowed to the networks.

What happened to the innovative little startup with a disruptive technology and the right attitude? Did you stop to think about what a move like says about the commitment to your value proposition? I know that you will simply color me as yet another (insignificant) comment on your blog.

So long,

Brokenhearted

P.S.: Remember the old adage about the satisfied versus unsatisfied customers telling their friends? That was before the social media factor. You do the math!

By: Superdave

Superdave — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:00:33 +0000

It is unclear to me specifically, what about displaying Hulu feeds through Boxee would cause either Hulu or its content providers to lose a financial opportunity.

If the content providers’ ads work on Boxee it shouldn’t be the content providers. Boxee is just an appliance / viewer tool and nothing else.

If Hulu can and intends to come up with a better media center appliance / viewer tool than Boxee, then great, consumers will have more choices… after all Boxee has quite a few shortcomings. Nevertheless, in the interim, Hulu should logically still be trying to get their content to the largest audience possible.

So this all makes no sense… I would like to see Hulu declare their reasons in clearer terms that consumers can understand and believe. Otherwise I am afraid as others have said, we have to assume by exclusion that this is points to some deceptive or dishonest corporate culture issues.

By: K Ketner

K Ketner — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:18:16 +0000

Please share this with Mr. Kilar:

I am viewing you on Charlie Rose. PLEASE learn NOT to use the term “regard” as “regards”! It is not correct AND diminishes your credibility. This is a decades-established effort on my part. It is important. It is “with regard” … “in regard” … it is not “in regards.” Stop it! It makes you seem juvenile. The only time you add the “s” is at the bottom of a letter — and that is a different term.

Seriously,

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:26:32 +0000

I just started watching Hulu. Found it easier than trying to find episodes “somewhere else”. But I wanted to use my OWN front end not the desktop or browser. I’m more than willing to watch the commercials… In fact, I even voted on them to show support for the “new” TV format. Alas, you force me back to finding other sources for my programming. No, networks, it won’t be cable. And don’t kid yourselves…. The stuff that passes for entertainment these days is not worth too much effort to find. “If it ain’t easy and it ain’t my way, I ain’t watchin”. Oh, and if I ain’t watchin’ I ain’t putting eyeballs on your precious commercials either.

By: Kara

Kara — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:56:15 +0000

So sad I slowly am seeing the erosion of our Constitution being dismantled piece by piece till soon we will have nothing left to save but ourselves. I also hear that our “puppet masters” also want to make the internet just like our televisons, and we will no longer have free domains to see what ” WE, THE PEOPLE..”want, it will all be controlled just like our television.. Then I read your letter, and I hope people really stop being so submissive to what is going on…wake up !!.Open your eyes, research everything and anything you can, and do something ;because “WE THE PEOPLE..” are still in control here…stand up for your rights as an American and for your families and friends!! Question these people who are taking those things away from us and get answers…

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By: Glapy

Glapy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:09:37 +0000

Hmm. Is it true? :-)

By: Cable Sucks

Cable Sucks — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:30:37 +0000

Regardless of any steps that Hulu and its partners may take, the internet will eventually shut down cable tv and everyone will say good riddance. People will not accept the ridiculous anti-capitalist arrangement that cable companies have with government, where people have no other option for service than the one appointed to their area. I wouldn’t accept having only one choice in anything, and entertainment is no exception. So until the greed stops, I will be pirating everything possible, and recruiting anyone i can to join me….i have already moved 2 friends and 1 family member off of cable. Please join this fight, teach people how to get content without paying for cable and lets shut these money hungry ass-wipes down for good!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:34:47 +0000

I think hulu.com should take this one step further and limit viewing hulu to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0. Let’s limit the audience as much as possible!! That will show the consumer who is boss.

By: Andreea

Andreea — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:59:19 +0000

Boxee and Hulu and the like just seem to be getting things back to the way they were. Doesn’t anybody remember way back in the day when cable was first started? Cable initially was advertised as “Pay for TV, so you don’t have to watch commercials anymore on the Free TV networks (ABC, CBS etc.)” TV was free, was always free for the major networks broadcasting because it was supported by advertising. Cable stations you paid for were supported by your subscription and offered no commercials in return. Then they slowly started trickling in some commercials here and there until we were paying for ad-ridden television. The original model was pay for no ads, or don’t pay and sit through ads. Paying to sit through ads is just silly.

The current model is just greedy, and the market will right itself with or without the support of big business TV. If you don’t want your content downloaded illegally, stop making everyone jump through hoops to watch it.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:06:23 +0000

Hulu team… please continue to push this issue. There are still ways of doing this of course (video cards with hdmi / svideo) but that’s not the point.

Everyone else… Allow me to play Devil’s advocate for a moment. Content providers are afraid that people will stop watching shows via local networks where multiple local and regional adverts take place. When you say “I don’t even have cable anymore” you reaffirm their concern. That’s exactly why they want the content restricted to the “small” screen only.

Hopefully a comprimise will be reached that will not result in a pay service. That will only result in piracy.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:09:43 +0000

This is terrible news. After the superbowl I thought the future of Hulu was bright. But my loyalty lies with Boxee – the combination of Hulu and Boxee is and should be the future of media. I though Fox and NBC finally understood the new media model – guess I was wrong.

By: boxeenewguy

boxeenewguy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:44:39 +0000

This is insane – I just got boxee, JUST so I could watch hulu on my TV instead of huddled around a laptop. I agree that I can’t see the harm in viewing the content (ads and all) via an interface that does no harm to the content. It is not downloaded, only streamed similar to standard browser access. What is the point? Please state who we need to contact in order to complain numerous times.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:41:49 +0000

Count me as another boxee user who will never use hulu again.

FOX and NBC can’t bear to part with their old model of doing business and so will die in in the long term. So be it.