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New Chill.com creates shared viewing around Hulu clips
Even with the advent of social media, the old-fashioned world of shared experiences around TV shows has eroded over the years with on-demand, non-linear video. With Hulu, for example, you can jump in and watch (most) of your favorite TV shows whenever you want.
Chill.com has launched a new experience that aims to bring back that shared experience.
Hulu not selling to pursue ‘even greater success’
After shopping itself around, Hulu has decided to stay put. Statement: ”Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its owners, we have terminated the sale process and look forward to working together to continue mapping out its path to even greater success. Our focus now rests solely on ensuring that [...]
How Facebook just kicked social TV into high gear
Updated: When Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook aims to rethink entire businesses, it looks like he means it. Today at F8, Facebook rolled out an update to its social graph that allows “frictionless” sharing, enabling a new world of social TV. And Hulu and Netflix are two early companies planning to take advantage of it. In [...]
Fox to stream newest shows only to paid subscribers
In a huge move that could signal the beginning of a reversal of free, timely programming on the web, Fox is planning to institute a eight-day delay on streaming its shows on Fox.com and Hulu, reports the WSJ. Paid subscribers to Hulu Plus ($7.99/month) and DirecTV Dish subscribers will be able to watch episodes the [...]
Legality delays Netflix’s Facebook integration in US
Netflix released its quarterly earnings (.pdf), and stocks plunged as much as 10% in after-hours trading because the company admitted its recent pricing change will slow subscriber growth — in fact, essentially flat for Q3: “We hate making our subscribers upset with us,” Netflix said. “In Q4, we expect domestic net additions to return to [...]
Will Netflix fans defect after rate hike?
Netflix announced a new pricing plan today that separates the unlimited DVDs-by-mail and instant streaming subscription (which currently costs $9.99 together) into two separate plans at $7.99 each, effectively raising the rates by $5.99 for subscribers who still want both options. In making the change, Netflix is organizationally splitting into two units as well — [...]
Report: Google in early talks to buy Hulu
The LA Times is reporting that Google is in preliminary talks to buy the video service Hulu, and other big suitors are in play, too. “Hulu has begun meeting with potential buyers including Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. to drum up interest in a sale,” the LA Times reports. It all began when Yahoo [...]
Roku says up to 20 percent of users cutting the cord
Roku VP Jim Funk says 15 to 20% of its users said they cut cable or satellite service after buying a Roku unit. And another 15 to 20% downgraded their service. “We’re seeing (cording cutting), but in the scheme of the whole country, it’s small,” he said in an interview with Beet.tv. “But I think [...]
Xbox play! Kinect-enabled Hulu Plus arrives
My family watches a lot of Netflix on Xbox, and we were pleasantly surprised to wake up this morning to see Hulu Plus ready to go. After a quick download, we were watching TV shows in HD via our Xbox, yelling “Xbox play!” and “Xbox pause!” at our Kinect sensor to play and pause the [...]
Hulu Plus spotted in Xbox beta
Xbox has promised Hulu Plus is coming to Xbox Live this spring, and the video game blog Joystiq has a photo here of it in action in a private beta environment. It’s unclear if it will have any social features tied to Xbox Live (for example, letting us know what our friends are watching), but [...]
YouTube plans social ‘channels’ for TV viewing
My two-year old never says he watches TV. “I’m watching Netflix,” he says, or “YouTube.” Those are his two networks (mom and dad also watch “Hulu”), which he can play on our TV set, laptop or iPad. So it’s no wonder that YouTube working on a “major overhaul” to push more aggressively onto TV screens, [...]
Daily Show, Cobert Report return to Hulu
Viacom’s Comedy Central and Hulu have patched up their relationship, and episodes from The Daily Show and Colbert Report re-appeared on Hulu this morning ten months after they were pulled. At the time, the shows were among the most popular on Hulu. As part of the new deal, Hulu is offering other Viacom shows like [...]
Comcast deal means NBC loses management of Hulu
NBCU will have to relinquish its “management rights” at Hulu under the newly-approved joint venture announced by the FCC and the Department of Justice. The agreement took more than a year to reach. One of the issues to those who were concerned about the deal was that Comcast would have too much control over both [...]
Cutting the cable: Hulu Plus on our TV set
A few months ago, we cut our cable service, but kept our Comcast internet connection. We’ve been experimenting with different ways to replace our traditional viewing on the TV set, and yesterday we added the Samsung BD-C6900 Blu-ray player ($244 on Amazon). That model number is important, because it’s the only Samsung player with Hulu [...]
Watch ESPN bowl games by waving your hand
Watching bowl games on ESPN over the New Years has become a new experience for many Xbox Live subscribers, especially those equipped with a new Kinect. In many ways, it’s a sneak peek into the future of watching live TV. We cut the cable cord a few months ago, so we watch ESPN3 on Xbox, [...]
TV’s largest social network, Xbox sales soar
Over 13 years ago, Microsoft bought a little startup called WebTV, a set-top box that brought the internet browser to TV. While that effort flopped, many on the WebTV team helped create Xbox, which is quickly becoming the dominate device in living room’s across America. Last month, Xbox 360 sales jumped 68 percent — 1.37 [...]
Tweet briefs: Twitter tips, Hulu show, Tumblr
Some recent TV and social media tweets from @lostremote: – Top 5 Twitter tips for TV anchors, from a TV anchor – Hulu is hiring to create a web show kind of like Talk Soup – Tumblr crashes for a day, how much does it matter? – Which TV channels can’t cord cutters live without?
Hulu Plus available for all at $10 a month
Hulu Plus emerged from private beta today, and the price tag remains $9.99 a month. You can subscribe right here, bringing Hulu to your iPad (screen grab below), Samsung App-enabled TV sets and Sony Bravia 2010 TVs. And in the next week, PS3 owners with a free PlayStation Network account will be able to download [...]
