Ah, Ok. That makes a lot more sense now. Seeing as Hulu has to obviously purchase the rights for playback of this content, they need to cover their overhead. I didn't know that. Guess I should RTFrekin'M every once in a while eh ?
Ok, then perhaps I would change my mind after all. What I'd love to see though, is a totally unified service which brings the content to ones cable box as well as online box in one package. It would seem the future is headed that way anyhow.. One universal box which is an media center that streams your favorite services such as Hulu, Netflix etc., brings in all of your favorite cable or FIOS channels etc.. and has as many HD I/O ports as necessary to hook up to ones dedicated home theater audio/video rig.
Yeah, I'd totally pay for that. I'd love a full catalog of back movies and tv shows from any time period, to be available. Now on the mobile side of things, the truly mobile side... I see a problem in terms of connectivity to the net. Where there's wifi it's fine, but with ATT's current pricing scheme, there's no room for one to even think about trying to enjoy watching movies or shows because you always have to watch your minutes.
Would be neat to see Apple try and create their own broadband service and market it in competition with the likes of Time Warner, FIOS, Comcast etc...
Doug
Edit: On a side note, why are Hulu still messing with Adobe Flash at this point and not moving over to an more open standard ?