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Mo MoDo
06/04/09

In reply to Enjoy Your Free Hulu While You Still Can
It all depends on whether the pricing plan is ala carte or all you can eat.

As someone who has watched five episodes of Ii>It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia in a row and gone on long Sarah Conner Chronicles benders, it makes a difference.

If I had wanted to pay for that crap, I would have 'bought' it from iTunes or waited for the inevitable DVD.
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rcdl
06/04/09

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I wouldn't have a problem with this if the price is reasonable (less than 5/month), there were no commercials, and most importantly they kept all episodes of a show. It really burns my butter that I can't watch Fringe from the beginning!
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CaptainFantastic
06/04/09

@rcdl: Then who would buy the DVDs of the whole season?
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badasscat
06/04/09

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It's not not on the agenda? Which means it is on the agenda?

Anyway, their loss if they start charging. They should think back and remember why they started up this site in the first place. It wasn't because people were paying for this content on that "other" video site.
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elinorwhyme
06/04/09

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But when will they start streaming in other countries is what I want to know. They have been working on "legal issues" for over a year.
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unclevanya
06/04/09

@elinorwhyme: Hulu is launching in the UK in September. Dunno about anywhere else.
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DorothyBarker
06/04/09

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Was bound to happen. Bets on whether they share fairly with all the creatives that make the shows happen?
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MissNormaDesmond
06/04/09

@DorothyBarker: If you're betting they will, yeah, sure, I like winning money as much as the next person. Otherwise, it's like asking people to bet you that Obama won't win the election. They're hardly going to go to the mat for a SAG contract that allows them not to do that and then turn around and get philanthropic out of the kindness of their hearts.
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Carol Gardens
06/04/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Um... the is what the Writers Guild Strike was about last year? There is a formula now for streaming shows that are under a WGA contract.
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MissNormaDesmond
06/05/09

@Carol Gardens: And? I'm not understanding your point. Even if we grant that the WGA deal was a good one for the WGA, they're not "all the creatives", and SAG's getting screwed.
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Carol Gardens
06/05/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Oh, I'm agreeing that they won't share unless forced to. Just pointing out that WGA got some movement on the issue because they were willing to got through that strike. I miss the inflatable rat.
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iplaudius
06/04/09

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I’d pay a modest subscription fee (ca. $5/mo.), if I could watch new episodes of shows as soon as they’re released conventionally. Or maybe $0.50 per "new" episode (however we define "new")? I’d want higher resolution, though, and even better caching of the stream.
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belltolls
06/04/09

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As long as it's just the Fox shows.
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Awesome X
06/04/09

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Ugh, that'll suck. But it's totally expected. Newspapers, Hulu -- they're all going to make us pay to use the Internet in a worthwhile way, and it's going to happen very soon. And, in a way, why the hell should we expect so much content for nothing?
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downlow
06/04/09

@Awesome X: Well, see, I pay $44.95 a month for access to the content as it is. All this shit adds up, ya know? I think the advertisers need to come up with some ideas and maybe get some money from the cable/phone companies that provide internet service. I agree it needs to be funded but there is going to be a limit to how much I can pay. I used to buy tons of magazines. I quit because they were too expensive. I can't afford to pay $5/month for all this different stuff.

/just one point of view
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Awesome X
06/04/09

@downlow: Hey, I'm with you. Think about this: a daily subscription to The New York Times dino-edition costs $600. For a Midwest regional paper, you'll pay about half that. That's a load of money somebody is paying to read a newspaper. I guess the point is that people used to be okay with paying for stuff, and now we think it should all be free on the Internet. I write for a media company, and somebody has to pay my salary. Shouldn't the consumer at least pay something? Sure, you're paying for Internet access -- but Internet providers aren't about to surrender their slice. They're more likely to come up with ways to squeeze more money out of us than share revenue with newspapers. It was stupid for these companies to offer content free in the first place, but costly content is the once and future king.
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Almostbanned
06/04/09

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If it's less than $5/month (and it should be), then I don't have a problem with it. Life isn't free, hippies.
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Niko Bellic
06/04/09

@Almostbanned: I am picturing you holding a money fan... made of four one-dollar bills: "Life isn't free, hippies!".

Show those hippie cheapo losers, Mr. Big Time Capitalist!
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kimsama
06/04/09

@Niko Bellic: Best mental image ever.
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croush1211
06/04/09

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As long as it's a reasonable price, I wouldn't be opposed to becoming a subscriber. I don't watch things on Hulu because they are free; I use the site because it's convenient and usually offers me content that would be difficult to find anywhere else, such as old television shows or movies. It's also great when you forget to set something to record on the DVR, or when the rest of your family is hogging the only television connected to the DVR...
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HurtsSoGood
06/04/09

@croush1211: It depends on a couple of things. Content that's worth paying for, and a consistent stream that doesn't require gobs and gobs of bandwidth. Oh, and if I could stream it with my new Roku box so I wouldn't have to watch it on my PC, that would be sweeeeeeeeeet.

Incidentally, I've been running Roku with Netflix for a couple of weeks now, and it has vastly exceeded my expectations with my 3MBPS Verizon DSL. I can see the day when subscription services like this replace cable and DTS satellite. I can hardly wait.
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