From shared torrents from BitTorrent to many of the major networks making their shows available online, online video has certainly arrived.A collaboration between NBC and Fox was released to the general public earlier this week entitled Hulu. It's interesting to see the shift to on-demand/online video and the different attempts to monetize it. It's also fun to see older content becoming available either for free or nominal charge (ala Virtual Console games on the Wii).

In addition to it being completely free (for now) a few things have impressed me so far about Hulu:
  1. They have a fairly robust selection of both TV show AND movies
  2. It's completely an online solution so no download is required
  3. They seem to have embraced bloggers in making it easy to embed all their videos into your blog if you want to share a particular show or movie (see below)
They have both clips and full episodes/movies on there. Here's a few examples of vintage TV shows I've found:
  • The A-Team
  • The Addam's Family
  • Remington Steele
  • Airwolf
  • Buck Rogers
  • Battlestar Galactica (Classic)
The selection of movies is less impressive, but they do have a few fun ones:
  • Master & Commander
  • Ice Age
  • Three Amigos
  • Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story
  • Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
Anyway, worth checking out. And here's an example of what you can do.....



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1 comments:

    Nikki said...

    Very interesting- I had no idea. I'll have to check it out!
    Thanks for the tip- again!

  1. ... on March 15, 2008 at 10:21 PM