This is just a taste of things to come I think. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Disney has indeed now bought into part ownership of the popular video streaming site Hulu.
After weeks of speculation, The Walt Disney Co. on Thursday announced that it has joined NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners as a joint venture partner and equity owner of video content aggregator Hulu.
Under the deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, Hulu will offer full-length episodes of current and library Disney TV programs such as “Lost,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Private Practice,” “Ugly Betty,” “Scrubs,” “Greek,” “Hope & Faith,” “Less than Perfect,” “Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Phineas and Ferb,” “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” “General Hospital,” “The View” and “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” which will be streamed on an ad-supported basis.
Methinks the day of scheduled TV watching are beginning to draw to a close. It started with TiVo and DVRs, then iTunes… now there are tons of channels for TV (and movie) content. Hulu is one of the better services, and with the studios buying into these sorts of services it’s only a matter of time now. TV is entering it’s final days.
It will be interesting to see how this sort of thing will effect movies. I’ve always argued that the movie going experience is unique from television, and I still believe that. These new trends will undoubtedly have an effect on the movie world… what is yet to be seen is what KIND of effect and to what extent.
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I think regular TV is dying as well. Whether due to gaming, online on demand TV viewing, YouTube, renting movies, particularly threw the mail, going to the movies, downloading movies and TV show, threw game consoles or without now,…
It just goes on and on. Basic cable already sucks ass more and more now a days any how. Most of the shows they broadcast are just reruns from regular TV channels, but why watch that, when you can watch the same show’s episodes back to back online for free?
hulu has allowed me to catch up on many shows but i still wish they had more seasons of a show like hells kitchen they dont have 1 through 3 on it
i went to the theater last nite.
i saw the new swine flu movie. (rimshot!)
hulu is the future. i use the internet browser on my ps3 to watch hulu on my tv & it works pretty well, however im hoping hulu will put out some kind of set top box in the future
I use Hulu, but only for when I have two shows on at the same time, for example, I watch Bones and Hell’s Kitchen at 8 and 9 on Thursdays, so I miss the Office, Parks and Recreation and Survivor (which isn’t on hulu), but I watch them all the next day on hulu (except Survivor).
I have been on hulu and I don’t like the website. It didn’t seem very easy to use so I don’t really care about this news.
Forgive me, but if that’s true, what’s the point in commenting just to say that?
Wait, I see your point. nvm.
Great news!! I’m very glad to see ABC shows finally getting on Hulu. Recently I’ve had to catch up on shows using ABC’s website, and I think their video player is very buggy and annoying. Hulu kicks all kinds of ass!
I was in California for a couple weeks last month and used Hulu. It’s bloody awesome but it is disabled for Canadian IP’s. Any word on if they’re going to allow it in Canada?
I don’t see TV going away any time soon. There just needs to be a middle ground between the two. You have five people in a house and they all want to do stuff on the Internet at the same time, streaming videos is going to take a hit even on cable and DSL lines, especially if you want to watch in HD. As connections get better this may all change. I know when I sit down to watch a Netflix movie on my 360, a watch instant movie, and I constantly get interrupted watching the quality get degraded until the end of the movie everything is a blur, I have to take note that internet connection speeds are going to have to increase drastically before they can reach the stability of cable TV, DVDs, and whatever other medium that does not require bandwidth to view.
With network viewership dropping every year this is another way to sell advertising. Hopefully it will keep more good shows on the air. When programs like LOST (one of the greatest achievements in TV history) can’t pull in 10 million viewers a week you know the network TV business model is in trouble.
chuck