Comments on: Hulu Desktop: high quality, browser-free videos optimized for a “Media Center” style experience

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:15:18 +0000

Joe…

Thanks for taking the time to write this nice blog post . Useful info even though can’t agree all you mentioned. But anyway… have a nice Thursday …

By: Mike Green

Mike Green — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:13:30 +0000

I won’t touch Hulu. I’m indignant at the idea of being forced to use using video-stream size bandwidth to watch commercials. I would MUCH rather simply have the still ads around the image.

By: Samer

Samer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:12:44 +0000

@ Old Man Dotes: as of this writing Hulu does not charge for content. What I heard was that they might charge for an ad-free or souped-up experience. I doubt very much that they will start charging for the same thing that they have so far offered for free.

By: Old Man Dotes

Old Man Dotes — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:36:14 +0000

When this story first hit the blogs, I thought, "Great!" I'll install Hulu Desktop on my HTPC this weekend. However, now that Hulu May Begin Charging for Content, I no longer see any reason to continue watching Hulu video, which is inferior in both quality and delivery to the streaming Netflix I also watch.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:22:03 +0000

Unfortunately, Hulu Desktop, as well as Hulu.com, is available only for US users. There are workarounds, like Hotspot Shield,but I would prefer to watch it at full speed.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:37:34 +0000

Nice tool

Thanks for posting

By: Tony Karakashian

Tony Karakashian — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:42:14 +0000

I agree with Howard. I have a HTPC and installed this as soon as I’d heard about it. The claim that it works with a MC remote is slightly exaggerated. You can use the navigation buttons and volume seems to still work, but very few of the other buttons work. For example, Pause does not pause the video, you have to use the Ok button.

That being said, since my wife and daughter were sick, we watched it for about 7-8 hours over the weekend without significant issue. It was a bit choppy, but that’s because we watched in high quality most of the time. It wasn’t anything that was particularly annoying, though (AND I had some large downloads going on on another machine in the house). All-in-all, though, we ditched cable entirely last week prior to finding out about this…now we’re glad we did. Now all I need to do is set it up to launch from an icon on Media Center and I’ll be all set!

By: howard

howard — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:02:40 +0000

I like it but the navigation is not all that friendly, particularly once you start watching a show.