Comments on: Hulu UK On Way To Start The International Roll-Out | A World Exists Outside The U.S. http://www.webtvwire.com/hulu-uk-on-way-to-start-the-international-roll-out-a-world-exists-outside-the-us/ The Business of Internet Television and Video Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:06:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phazer http://www.webtvwire.com/hulu-uk-on-way-to-start-the-international-roll-out-a-world-exists-outside-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-116053 Phazer Fri, 22 May 2009 08:49:34 +0000 http://www.webtvwire.com/?p=5880#comment-116053 Huggers didn't say anything of the kind at the conference - the Mail has simply invented it. All he said was that people watching the iPlayer should, morally, have a TV licence (since if they don't have a TV and don't watch live they're not legally required to). Nothing about charging people who already have a licence. Nothing about subscriptions. Nip. Nada. Zilch. Neither the iPlayer nor Hulu will be in a position to make a profit offering content outside of their own home territory any time this decade. The costs and admin of rights clearance would simply make it far too expensive to possibly recoup it's costs. So Hulu's international offerings will have little or no US content, and any international iPlayer will probably just be stuff cleared for the international BBC channels like BBC America. Huggers didn’t say anything of the kind at the conference – the Mail has simply invented it.

All he said was that people watching the iPlayer should, morally, have a TV licence (since if they don’t have a TV and don’t watch live they’re not legally required to). Nothing about charging people who already have a licence. Nothing about subscriptions. Nip. Nada. Zilch.

Neither the iPlayer nor Hulu will be in a position to make a profit offering content outside of their own home territory any time this decade. The costs and admin of rights clearance would simply make it far too expensive to possibly recoup it’s costs. So Hulu’s international offerings will have little or no US content, and any international iPlayer will probably just be stuff cleared for the international BBC channels like BBC America.

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