Comments on: MGM first to post full-length features to YouTube

The deal with MGM makes YouTube an online film theater but industry sources say more studios are sure to join.

[aka_tripleB]

Someone, quickly, upload "Santa Conquers the Martians" and take the title of being first. No one should declair themselves first unless they have actually accomplished the feat.

[Peet42]

It's been up for free on archive.org for a couple of years. The copyright was never renewed.

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Santa vs Martians (not writing full title) is all over the place. Check those $1 or $5 public domain collections, usually sold at Wal-mart.

I do get your joke, but something funnier would've been, oh, I don't know, like them posting GamePro TV or something, or old episodes of Club Mario and Video Power, and treating it seriously, as if these shows are the cream of the crop.

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Hulu's a "success"? I don't think so. Leo Laporte doesn't think so. Bob Cringely doesn't think so. Kevin Rose doesn't think so.

Ever used Hulu compared to YouTube? Hulu crashes, doesn't work on Wii's browser and doesn't cache the video.

YouTube caches the video if paused, rarely crashes, loads under dial-up, can be saved (I won't write how), and works on the Wii browser easily, allowing my friends and family to enjoy YouTube in the living room. On a regular TV the Wii plays on (HD is in my home theater, not living room), YouTube looks great.

Have I used Hulu? Yeah, watched many old TV shows there. But since it sucks overall (no, I'm not watching on dial-up, but others do) compared to my YouTube experiences, I'll stick to YouTube.

Hence, MGM and other studios know this, and are making the movie. Hulu was just NBC's little hissy-fit to Apple, though the same shows were offered on Xbox Live. Go figure. I got my Office fix either way.

Oh, and Hulu can be saved too, I'm not going to bother writing how, though.

[wolverine01]

This is great that studios are putting movies on YouTube but with ISP like Comcast restricting you bandwidth use who will be able to watch them if you want to do anything else on your computer?