With today’s generations becoming more and more busy with work socializing with friends, getting involved in different organizations and putting more on their plate, less and less time can be devoted to sitting at home in front of the TV at regular TV viewing hours. Because of this, the number of VCRs and the newer DVRS/TiVos are now allowing users to watch TV programming on their time. But what if viewing was made even easier?
Hulu has been introduced in the last year and can change how many people view television shows. As a college student, like many of my friends, I watch a couple of TV shows each week. In the past couple of years, because I had a broken VCR, if I missed an episode, I’d just have to watch the recap the next week and hope that I could catch on quickly enough. However, now when I miss episodes of my favorite shows, I can watch them online with streaming video from Hulu. Viewers that have internet capabilities on their TVs don’t even have to worry about recording TV shows if they have access to hulu because they have full episodes from most of the channels.
Another way that hulu works well for the consumer is their lack of long commercial breaks. When you watch a show on Hulu, you have the option of watching a long commercial at the beginning of the show from the sponsor, or 1 commercial breaks between the 4 or 5 pieces of the show. Either way, you watch at most a couple minutes of commercials total.
They have episodes from so many shows, keep at least the last couple online so that if you miss a couple weeks you can catch up, and short commercials. What more can you want?
Donna Blaufuss said,
December 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Hi Allison,
I just read an article on how “underground” TV shows such as F/X’s witty “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” have become increasingly popular on Hulu. At one point, Hulu pulled the show by request of F/X (in F/X’s attempt to satisify obligations to advertisers on the network.) A major outcry from the Twitter-verse against Hulu was the result.
Hulu doesn’t own the content it shows. Although it has a huge library of programming, it is at risk of future letdowns and backlash from the public. As more competitors enter the online viewing market, Hulu may end up being a victim of its own success.
bridgette619 said,
December 28, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Hulu…great!
“…works well for the consumer is their lack of long commercial breaks. When you watch a show on Hulu, you have the option of watching a long commercial at the beginning of the show from the sponsor, or 1 commercial breaks between the 4 or 5 pieces of the show.”
That is HEAVENLY! Spread the word!!!!!!!
Great post,
B.