Comments on: TheTVaddict.com Previews Hulu.com

By: Nadi

Nadi — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:28:39 +0000

I jumped on the Hulu bandwagon a couple of months ago. But, they just asked for my email and said they would notify me when I could join. I haven’t received anything from them yet! Not cool. How long ago did you sign up?

By: shanna

shanna — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:47:18 +0000

What I think is ridiculous is that you have these companies saying we don’t know where this is going or how to work this crazy interweb while in the SAME FRIGGIN’ WEEK launching things like NBC Direct Download and Hulu. C’mon don’t pretend to not know but put up the very tools to make money off the internet DURING the strike.

By: steve adams

steve adams — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:46:56 +0000

I’m steamed too Chris. Alot of people think the writers are rich and greedy.
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Its the Studios not the producers that claim this is promotional. What it really is, is a test marketing campaign to see how many people would watch tv shows on the web. So far the prospects are high for lots of revenue and in the future after analog tv signals end in 2009.
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Its the next medium that were going to be forced into cheap at first then its going to be another bill you pay.
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The writers union clearly knows this and the studios still to this day say , “we don’t know if the streaming content is a viable and profitable”
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Their liers and theaves.
And they should be brought up on colluison and union busting charges.
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Once this grand plan is complete you’ll see video stores all go Streaming. They’ll have too if they want to survive.
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And all the writers are asking for a little piece of the pie.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:03:34 +0000

“It’s all ad supported, so you’ll still need to sit through a 30-60 second ad every 10 minutes or so”

Steamed all over again that the producers dared to claim that streamed episodes are for “promotional use.” What a joke.

By: steve adams

steve adams — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:01:50 +0000

I agree with Josh about watching tv on a regular tv, but what’s happening is the phone companies are ready to give the consumers tv,ph and internet over basically one phone/cable line.
By using fiber-optics they can separate these 3 services yet allow them to interact.
HDTV’s no prob.

This would allow you to watch shows on your tv while also being connected to the web. Tevo units are being built now to accomodate this technology.
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Also. One reason you don’t see alot of shows on dvd is because somewhere there’s a Producer, Writer or actor that would collect Royaties. You can see how greedy the studios are on this issue. They did the same thing when VHS came out. They wrote the contract in such a way that the VHS technology looked very iffy and not profitable. Therefore the writer got screwed out of Billions of revenue,until they later striked to resolve this.
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I’m not a WGA member but I don’t like big business turning us all into slaves and controling what we do.

Can you see where this is all going?

Control….of the masses. Thru there media outlets and options.
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Kimberly thinks this is neato now but after awhile the truth on this will be clear and there won’t be any going back.

By: Josh Emerson

Josh Emerson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:58:48 +0000

I dunno, I still prefer old-fashioned TV viewing. Not necessarily “old-fashioned” since I’m referring to HDTV, but I like it better than any of the Internet viewing options out there. Better quality, much bigger screen, etc.

The main way that this and other sites will be great is if they provide large archives of past shows. Stuff that you might not have DVR’d or might not be out on DVD. I’d love to see some shows that aren’t available anywhere at all and aren’t scheduled for DVD release.

By: steve adams

steve adams — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:50:59 +0000

Sites like these are the main reason were in this writers strike.
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Its obvious to me that the studios have all this streaming tech allready in place.

So for the studios position that they don’t know what the future is, well that total fricken bs…their waiting for the writers to sign a bs contract so they can introduce this web-tech on the world and open up all their catalogs for online purchase.
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I personally don’t like this direction in tv viewing. I like dvds and even though its “cheap” to download. This is all heading to a path I don’t want to be on.
A world where the cd and dvd stores are all online.
F.that.!!
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All this technology in the long run will hurt the way we live our lives in ways you can’t imagine.
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By: SimplyKimberly

SimplyKimberly — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:36:25 +0000

You shouldn’t feel guilty for liking it. This is the future of entertainment. I can’t wait to try it out. I just think, for me, it will be after the strike is over and they actually pay the writers fairly for their work (just like authors and musicians) when they sell them on these sites directly or via ad sponsorship.