An episode of the simpsons to start you off.
Okay, so now some serious reviewing. My initial impression of the interface was that is was cool and clean, very nice.
Upon further examination of Hulu, I liked what I saw but found a few disappointments.
First off, it's hard to find all episodes of a show or find good stuff to watch. The Project Runway page has one episode, but by searching 'Project Runway', I find another episode - with Bravo.tv slapped all over it. Huh?
The content leaves things to be desired - having Disney Channel stuff would be great for keeping my brothers calm and under control over the holidays. In fact, there really are no kids shows. Right now, the only people using Hulu are people with enough foresight to sign up to the beta, which is mostly people who err toward the geek side of things. They don't want kids' shows. But the masses will.
Of course, there are other specific shows I want to see, but of course it's hard and not Hulu's fault. but getting along with Disney and adding Disney Channel and ABC would be appreciated, at least by me.
As I touched on before, the site is a little hard to navigate and it took me longer than it should for me to find what I wanted at first. It got better as time went on, but I'm still unsure how to find a few things easiley - namely, movies I want to see. Becuase someone told me that The Breakfast Club was offered, could find it easily with search. I still, however, do not know what else is up there that I want to see.
The actual watching experience is okay. I have had a few playback problems - jerkiness in many and yellow in the black sections of the screen in one episode. The jerkiness may be my fault, thought, my wireless network has had countless problems in the last few days. When you move your pointer, some options pop up:
I apologize for the poor image quality, having to deal with paint is, to say the least, combersome. I wish I have Photoshop here, but alas...
Those options say things like share, embed, full screen, and pop out. One that I like is "Lower Lights".
It essentially darkens the rest of the hulu page. No links on the rest of the page are clickable when the lights are lowered. Useless? Probably. But I still like it.
The options dissapear very quickly when you move your mouse away, leaving you with jsut the window and a very small progress bar on the bottom.
The advertising is fine, not gone but not constantly in your face. Please, advertisers, get this. When the ads are truly funny, we will want to watch them. Channel your inner human being. Some ads are jsut plain...boring. Which is why people pay for TiVo.
Anyways. Hulu? Okay bordering on good. I have faith that t will get better. More content, more features, and that sort of thing. What do I want to see? Downloads that I can buy, and more content. I just hope that there wil never be a 'premium hulu' where I have to pay to get the good shows. I'm okay with paying for downloads, but all the content should be free. Perhaps an ad-free premium hulu. That might be nice.
Enjoy.
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