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With hulu the entire thing is a no-go if you live outside the US. In other words pretty useless to most of the internet.
by trezor 18y ago
With hulu the entire thing is a no-go if you live outside the US.
In other words pretty useless to most of the internet.
- timcederman 18y agoBut perfectly hitting the advertiser's target market, and also still supporting a significant part of the internet. Sadly, I think this localisation will continue to be a part of online TV, as otherwise it ends up costing the content provider high bandwidth fees for ads that are not reaching the expected audience.
- unalone 18y agoThat's why I think that for video sites, making deals with foreign providers will eventually prove to be the sensible thing to do. If Hulu finds a collaborator overseas, it would help them a lot. The problem is motivation on their part.
- unalone 18y agoBut that has nothing whatsoever to do with aesthetic. I think YouTube is doing a good thing. I think that the more open video is, the better it is for people. My gripe lies entirely with the fact that YouTube is an extremely ugly site, and with video - unlike some things - there are very attractive sites to compare with. Vimeo and Hulu do it right, both the overall aesthetic and the vanishing bar in particular. YouTube makes it so that I would never be able to really use my computer like a television, whereas in Hulu I can get fairly high-resolution video of, say, Arrested Development, and watch it in an environment that's even slightly better than watching it on TV.