Hulu Plus: Every Episode from Every Season for $10 Per Month

Here’s the deal with Hulu Plus. You pay Hulu $10 per month and they’ll let you watch every episode from every season of every show they offer from the likes of ABC, NBC, and FOX. Oh, and you can watch on your computer, your iPhone, your iPad, or your TV (provided you have an internet-connected TV or Blu-ray player made by Samsung). Hulu Plus will be popping up on the PlayStation 3 shortly, along with other platforms in the future.

And you don’t have to sit through commercials if you pay $10 per month, right? Wrong. According to a company blog post, “Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product that is incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service.”

You will get access to all the episodes in a show’s current season, plus all back seasons of that show instead of the common five episode limit normally found within the free version of Hulu. This spells potential trouble for the following companies: Netflix, Comcast, Amazon, Apple (iTunes), and anyone else in the business of selling popular TV shows for $2 an episode or, in Comcast’s case, charging a bazillion dollars per month for 700 channels instead of letting you subscribe to only the five or six you actually watch.

Hulu Plus is currently rolling out as an invite-only offering but you can enter your e-mail address to get put on the list. Will you bite?

via NYT

http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

Nope. There are too many fees pilling on my bills as it is.
showtime45

In my mind, there are only two things missing from Hulu Plus that are keeping me from dropping my cable TV and just using it as my sole TV service. 1) CBS… Big Bang Theory and HIMYM are on my appointment TV list. 2) Live sporting events… I’m not inclined to go to a sports bar everytime I want to watch a game.
anubus

One step closer to getting rid of my satellite. I wouldn’t be surprised if CBS goes to hulu soon now that there is money to be had in it. Still leaves sporting events, but compared to my cable bill its not really worth it, and there are ways around that. And even if CBS doesn’t go to hulu, you can get CBS online and over the air without the cable subscription. I don’t have netflix but the shows may also be available that route, netflix+hulu is still going to be leagues cheaper then a cable subscription.