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Hulu Plus is Real: $10/Month for iPhone, iPad and TV Viewing
Finally! Hulu Plus has been made official, and it looks awesome.

For $10 a month, you'll be able to stream in HD entire current seasons of shows such as Glee, Modern Family, The Office and 30 Rock as well as the entire back library of many other shows, such as Arrested Development, The X-Files and Heroes.
You can watch said shows in a variety of ways: on your computer, of course, but also on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch—over Wi-Fi or 3G (!!). And your TV! Hulu Plus will be supported on the PS3 "soon" and the Xbox 360 in "early 2011." It'll also be supported by Samsung, Vizio and Sony TVs and Blu-ray players.


One downside? Even though you're paying $10/month, you'll still need to sit through ads, which is pretty weak. Getting double-dipped makes one feel used.
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Pretty sure we pay for cable/satellite ads too, sport.
Hulu Plus is launching in July, but they're accepting email addresses for invites to the "Hulu Plus Preview" now.

This is big. Although, really, this makes Comedy Central's peeling off from Hulu extra painful. The Daily Show and Colbert Report on this would make it a must-get. If this does well, hopefully Hulu will be able to entice more content partners to get (back) on board.
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jwinslow;1724439; said:
If only sports were available without a TV provider :sad2:
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In two or three years, they will be. You'll probably be paying $5-10/mo per sport for subscriptions, or a flat rate for a season, but there is no reason the MLB network, or NFL network, or the Big Ten network won't be streaming every game to every device imagineable some day soon.

The bigger question for Hulu is whether the broadcast networks will start pulling all their back-catalogs of content to broadcast themselves. Can't imagine ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX are happy splitting $10 15-different ways with Hulu when they could make all of $5 for themselves. Add in iTunes, Netflix, etc ... and I could forsee where this could ultimately bury cable and satellite providers.

It would certainly be more cost effective to buy my family's 7 or 8 favorite channels and a couple seasonal sports and have them streamed to any IP device I own than pay $60-80/mo to Time Warner for 70 extra channels worth of shit. If TW won't sell me channels a la carte, somebody else eventually will, and I'd be all for it!
 
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