Tag archive: Hulu

Cord cutters, you now have another company vying for your streaming attention with original programming: Hulu. The streaming video service has followed Netflix's recent foray into original programming with a series of its own called Battleground. The Hulu series' first two episodes are currently available as of today for free, and Hulu plans to release a new episode every week on Tuesday. Hulu's first original scripted series… Read More

Amazon is continuing its quest to corner a piece of the content streaming market with its new Viacom partnership. The new deal will offer Amazon Prime members the ability to instantly access TV shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT, and Logo. Netflix and Hulu are feeling a little pressure from Amazon. By wrapping the amount of content it does into its Amazon Prime service, it’s marketing itself to a wider… Read More

Hulu and Netflix now have even more in common: both streaming services will soon offer original programming. About two weeks ago Netflix debuted the first trailer for Lilyhammer, an original dramedy about a New York gangster who has to move to Norway. Now Hulu has debuted the trailer for Battleground, a new Office-like dramedy following the ups and downs of a Wisconsin Senate race. It premieres Feb. 14.  Here's the description: “By… Read More

Mentioned within an official Hulu blog post by CEO Jason Kilar, Hulu has gained over 1.5 million premium subscribers to the Hulu Plus service. This brings Hulu in line with the same amount of premium subscriber as DVR service TiVo according to SplatF's Dan Frommer, but still lags far behind the 25 million Netflix subscribers. Both Hulu Plus and Netflix's streaming-only package are priced at $7.99 per month for each service. During… Read More

Netflix may be down, but it's not out. The streaming and DVD rental company announced today that its more than 20 million members worldwide watched a combined total of more than 2 billion hours of television and movies during the last three months of 2011. This equals out to an average of about 33 hours of video watching per month for each user — which isn't hard to imagine considering the increasingly popular practice of watching… Read More

Rounded up in TorrentFreak's annual Top 10 list of the most pirated television shows, Showtime's Dexter has taken the top spot this year. The show details the life of a serial killer that works for the Miami police department as a blood spatter analyst while also juggling a family life. Dexter pushed HBO's Game of Thrones to the number two position, but both shows had more illegal downloads of episodes than estimated U.S.… Read More

TV continues to exist in an eternal state of flux: Consumers aren’t quite sure where it’s heading and manufacturers are still trying to pull the right strings to get the next phase off the ground. But there are more than a few complications keeping us in this proverbial purgatory of television and streaming content. But change is going to come, and amid news that Google is interested in entering the cable TV business and continued rumors that… Read More

Announced earlier today, the joint venture of Warner Bros. and CBS Corporation has entered into a five year licensing agreement with media streaming company Hulu. The CW network will be featuring episodes of new shows like Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ringer as well as legacy CW shows like Supernatural. While Netflix announced a similar partnership earlier this year, Hulu gets immediate streaming access to new episodes while Netflix has to… Read More

Online video steaming services are going through something akin to growing pains right now: Hulu’s sale was thwarted by lower prices than the company could accept, Netflix has been fumbling ever since it mumbled the phrase “Qwikster,” and YouTube has poured over $100+ million into becoming a viable content provider. And of course, as consumers continue to cut cords and connected TVs pick up steam, there remains the fact that a platform has yet… Read More

It has been an exciting summer for video streaming company Hulu. NBC Universal, Fox, and Disney, the owners of Hulu, have been trying to sell the company to the highest bidder. The bidding adventure has officially ended today without a winner; Hulu announced on the company blog that it has decided that it is no longer for sale. There have been several rumors about who has been trying to buy Hulu including Yahoo, Apple, Google, and DirectTV. The… Read More

When the Roku set top box first came out, it offered users only the chance to watch Netflix streaming on their TVs instead of computers. Three years later and Roku now has several different devices offering over 300 media channels for streaming. The latest model to join the family is the Roku LT, which will debut this November for a budget-friendly price of only $50. The Roku LT has built-in wireless, which means quick and easy set up for… Read More

Microsoft plans to announce today expanded television-watching capabilities for its Xbox gaming console, reports Peter Kafka at AllThingsD. The updates will allow Xbox users to access more video streaming content. Unfortunately, at least some of the new functionality will require a subscription to cable TV. The update will essentially turn the Xbox into a kind of cable box, meaning those of you who wish to cut the cable cord won't find… Read More

According to a story published today in the Wall Street Journal, Google-owned YouTube is finishing up preparations on premium video channels for the streaming video site. Ideally launching in the first half of 2012, these premium channels are themed by topics such as sports and fashion. YouTube plans to pay up to a few million dollars for content and providers are already starting to work on content creation over October and November. In… Read More

Recently, we learned that Netflix will soon completely split up its Instant Streaming and DVD-by-mail services. Netflix will continue to be the home for Instant Streaming and a new company called Qwikster, run by the same guys who have been running Netflix DVD rentals for a decade, will handle DVD-by-mail subscriptions. If you're like us, you're wondering what the heck is going on over at Netflix headquarters. While we'll be… Read More

Video streaming and video rental giant Netflix rocked its world for the second time in as many months on Sunday, announcing the company will be spinning off its DVD rental business into an independently-operating new business dubbed Qwikster. Qwikster's CEO will be Andy Rendich, who has served as Netflix's chief service and operations officer. The announcement follows on the heels of a controversial restructuring program that… Read More