Posted on Thursday 28 May 2009
What would be better than watching TV shows and movies on Hulu sat at your computer? Watching it fro your couch of course. Boxee once offered such an option until Hulu decided to take its ball and go home. The reasons for that decision now become clear.
Hu(ge)lu Success
Hulu has so far been a hugely successful foray into the online video market for NBC and News Corps. So successful in fact that Disney also wanted in, buying its way onto the service at the end of April. Hulu has attracted millions of viewers, advertisers aplenty, and is by all accounts building a more profitable service than Google is managing with YouTube.
Hulu has managed all this by offering premium content for free, supported by advertising, which can be played from within a browser. But from today there is now another option, with the Hulu Desktop application being released for Windows PCs and Apple Macs. Linux users are once again left out of the loop. No surprise there.







