Hulu

So, Hulu. The site everyone's talking about. It went online today, and I noticed an article about it in my RSS feeds on top of my email. I immediately put in my email adress to sign up for the beta, but who knows how long it'll be until I get an invite to try it out. I quote the hulu blog:

Not everyone will receive an invitation to the private beta today, but we will be ramping up the number of invitations to the private beta each week. In the interim, we've captured a number of screen shots for those interested.

For those uninformed among you, hulu is a site from various TV channels on which they will post, legally, ad-supported TV shows. I know we've seen this on other websites before, but I can't tell you how many time I've been cut off in the middle of a show while watching it. They also tend to run slow and be clunky and cumbersome. Will hulu be the same? Probably. I'm hoping not, though.

I'm a poor, cable-less girl, who only gets to watch her favorite shows with comcast on demand at friends or her grandparent's houses, or with friends when channel surfing. I hardly even have a TV at home, ours is like 12 inches and very grainy and old. The face that we have a DVD player is relatively new, too. We got one about 2 years after they were the norm. Yet another reason I want an iPod with decent video capabilities (wait a second. That's all of them, now, isn't it? Well, except the shuffle). two bucks an episode isn't ridiculous when you look at the kids buying six dollar lunches regularly, with an icee from chevron, and sushi from the sushi place, and cookies or candy or something from the supermarket. While I couldn't watch unlimited TV at that price, I could buy an episode of something every time I heard it was really good. Once every one, two weeks. Come to think of it, that really isn't that much. In that case hulu, please have good and easy to watch content, with not too many ads? Thanks.

I'll keep you guys posted when I gain access. Until then, you can look at the hulu-provided tour. Or, even better, Machinist has an article that shows us the embedding of full shows, tells about the ads, and answers a lot of questions, or at least a lot of my questions. And, um, has the full-length Breakfast Club, embedded full length in the page.

So, where's the hulu facebook app?