Oh, see, see, I see what you did there. Cute.

I was on your side, when I had Hulu violently jerked from my TV. I followed the “the content providers made us” tripe, and I thought “poor Hulu, they’re trying to be innovative, but the content providers just don’t get it and won’t let them.” And now we get this out of left field (with Boxee still blocked, last I looked, though they may have found yet another workaround). Sadly, I’m not a psychic, so I can’t look into the intentions of individuals. Being the not-a-mind-reader I am, it now looks a lot like an underhanded stab in the back so that you could release your own exclusive client.

Other companies have done that. It’s really not that unbusiness-like. But you at least say “you know, we’re actually uncomfortable with third party interactions with our content, and would prefer you use our client instead.” You don’t cry “it’s out of our hands, boo hoo”.

I’m not going to start spouting “Hulu is just a corporate butt-puppet” or “you’ve lost me as a viewer for ever and ever amen” like I keep hearing. And I hate to give a kick in the teeth for trying to offer functionality. But, I do want to say that the whole mix of things has a really bad smell to it. Bad form, and all that rot. I heard the words “good faith” passed around a lot back in February, but I haven’t actually seen much of it. It might be nice, when you get this thing solid, to offer a bone back to the guys you pushed around. Maybe something in the form of an approved and clean API for third party interactions. Something to ensure your content flows as intended, with the functionality you snatched away.

“how can we make it easier for users to immerse themselves in the great shows and movies Hulu is fortunate to have access to? Our answer was to build a new PC and Mac application”

You mean your answer was to block access to the existing hulu userbase who -already- accessed your content on the big screen.

Please stop arbitrarily blocking web browsers and applications from accessing your content. I’m not going to run yet another application when I can instead aggregate everyone’s content into a single platform.

..david (an ex-hulu viewer using boxee)

Please bring Hulu Desktop to Linux!

Come on guys ‘n’ girls, don’t tell the rest of the world that you’re committed when it’s quite clear that the rest of the world is not on the agenda – we’d prefer a straight up denial of service instead of the same old plattitudes!

Good job …

No offense, guys, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to this figure out. A WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER PLUG-IN AND SUPPORT FOR OTHER SET TOP BOXES not another application to install. Geez. Come on, “engineers” it’s obvious that this is what people want.

Please?