Most of us techies are pretty much already used to using Hulu to keep up on our favorite TV shows. Now Hulu is offering a way to make keeping up much much easier. For about $10 dollars a month, Hulu is offering the "Hulu Plus" service, offering more content and the ability to stream from several devices. At this time, the only ready devices are certain models of Samsung brand TVs and Blu-Ray players, the iPad, and the iPhone. Soon to follow the TV/Blu-Ray treatment are Sony and Vizio. Also Hulu Plus is set to come to the PS3 and the XBOX360.
My first thought was that Hulu may be offering up some competition to Netflix. After looking over the current list of currently avilable content, the lack of movies made me think otherwise. What this does change in my eyes however, is the way people watch TV. Personally there's only a few shows that I even bother to follow. If it's not on [adult swim], then chances are I don't go out of my way to keep up. Now being able to start a stream on my PC, and be able to pick up watching where I left off from my iPhone while I'm out and about, and end the day with the last of what I haven't seen on my XBOX sounds pretty amazing to me, and if this picks up well enough, it's cable that should be worried.
Sure there are a lot of cable consumers that actually watch a majority of their channels that they pay for, but if Hulu can manage to pick up enough momentum to offer a majority of subscribers all the shows that they care about following for for only $10 a month, versus something more along the lines of $60-$80 for a basic package. I'm interested in seeing what else will be affected by the convenience of being able to watch every episode of Arrested Development from wherever I am. Time will tell.
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