I’m going to withhold my haterage for a bit as I try the new Hulu beta, but so far it’s acceptable at best but not earth-shattering. Here’s what’s going on : NBC Universal and News Corp decided to offer their hot hot content online. What is that hot hot content? Mostly SNL clips, Family Guy episodes, and The Office . However, they do have the Breakfast Club , Heroes , and also a bunch of other stuff you probably don’t want to watch like Simon and Simon. Call it a media garage sale: dig a little and you’ll find a nice old mason jar next to dolls with no eyes and a peed-on tent from 1978.
The quality is fairly good and it’s all flash so you can apparently do stuff like this:
http://www.hulu.com/embed/1628 Which thereby allows me to share Arnold’s best with you. [Ooops… sorry. No dice. It won’t let me embed video.] The question is this: do we need a sharing site like this or do we need a central repository for all of this magical entertainment? Do we, in short, need a Netflix for downloadable content? Who the heck knows. Ooops. The first commercial just popped up on Conan . Just as the young warrior was learning about Krum’s steel! And I totally forgot that James Earl Jones was in Conan and he totally looks like Nigel Tufnel . I guess Hulu is good for something. Beta Page [Sorry, no invites]
