ABC content starts arriving on Hulu
It's here, sort of. Several months after the big announcement that content from Disney's ABC Entertainment division would be coming to Hulu, the entertainment conglomerate's shows have started arriving.
The primetime drama "Grey's Anatomy" debuted on the video hub Monday, and more shows will roll out over the next two weeks.
These include, according to Hulu, consistent hits like "Desperate Housewives" and "Scrubs," along with more recent additions to the network such as "I Survived A Japanese Game Show."
Disney joined Hulu in April, giving it a joint stake in the company alongside NBC Universal, News Corp., and investor Providence Equity Partners. Shows from ABC as well as ABC-owned cable channels like SoapNet and ABC Family are on the way, along with movies from Disney (though no titles have been made available yet).
Would-be Hulu rival Joost closed its consumer video service last month after its peer-to-peer technology failed to make up for its tepid content offering.
My big question: When will we see episodes of my favorite ABC show, "Lost," on Hulu? I've e-mailed a company representative to find out.
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline. 
Maybe it looks worse on bigger screens, though.
And yeah! The instant Lost...and maybe Wipeout...(the only other ABC show I watch) come to Hulu, I'll definitely be watching them on there. One-stop shopping is ALWAYS better.
Then I used a different Browser (IE8) same thing, I guess I have to wait until the show is really on Hulu.
I don't have anywhere else Problem, just on ABC.
As far as CBS being on HULU, CBS has said they prefer the approach that they have taken with making their shows available on a wide range of websites, ie, TV.com, CBS.com, Video.aol.com, and Netflix, as well as a lot of other sites that i dont know about. It's called the CBS Audience Networks.. check it out here: http://www.cbs.com/can_player/partners.php
hope this helps!
I don't see what the big deal with wanting CBS content on HULU is anyway... if you want to watch a CBS show thats viewable online you can go to tv.com, Aol Video, or CBS.com...or if you have a netflix account you can watch CBS shows Commercial free with netflix "Watch Now' beginning the day after they originally air.
I cannot stand ABC's "Click To Continue" advertising program on their online player. Nothing more mood-breaking than having to get up to click a button every 10 minutes (we have a couch nearby and normally sit on that when we watch shows online).
The only thing I like about ABC's ad system is that sometimes they include games...oh, and you can usually pause the ad, and start watching videos somewhere else, if you want to shave 30 seconds off of your day.
Other than that, though, Hulu is far superior.
This is the internet, for God's sake. Not to blame the people running Hulu, but the content providers for the shows themselves have strange ideas about how to run a business. You'd think Big Content would be smart enough not to drive non-U.S. customers to piracy. Instead, they're hung up negotiating agreements on a nation-by-nation basis for some region.
Jeez, you'd think that they'd at least bring Canada on board, a country with an economy very tightly integrated with the U.S. and a viewing audience with very similar tastes to the U.S. (although we have the Royal Canadian Air Farce and Rick Mercer).
What you have to remember is the different permissions Hulu must obtain in order to broadcast outside the US.
Then you have to think of advertising...how they make their money. They'd need to have local (meaning to the country) advertisements in place as well.
It's not HULU that you need to be blaming. Blame those greedy Content Providers who don't want their programs to be available outside US (at least for now).
http://www.hulu.com/about/media_faq
Pending regulatory review and approval, Disney will share current television shows and clips from ABC.com, ABCFamily.com and SOAPnet.com, as well as archived programs and features.
Following the approval of the regulatory review, content available to Hulu users will include:
Full-length episodes of ABC primetime programs like Lost, Grey?s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Samantha Who, Scrubs, Private Practice and popular late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live
- by huludude July 18, 2009 1:14 AM PDT
- I was browsing around for alternate ways to watch hulu. It looks like the only decent way to do it, is to purchase a private VPN account. I highly doubt hulu can ban them all. I purchased mine from www.hidemynet.com , they provide UK and US servers currently, so I can also login to the UK server to access online video offered in the UK :). Like, Iplayer, Channel 4 on demand, bbc, etc. And it's only 5$/month, beats having to deal with the hassles of using hotspot shield (which is now banned anyway).
- Like this Reply to this comment
-
(21 Comments)