Hulu Goes Public
March 12th, 2008With nothing else to do last night, I thought I’d curl up in front of my laptop computer and watch an episode (or two) of The Tonight Show or Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Hulu - however, I was just met with a tiny screen message saying the site was unavailable. I realized that they were preparing for the big day - Hulu went out of invitation-only beta today. So, if you have not checked out (or heard of) Hulu yet, here’s your chance.
I am impressed by Hulu’s simplistic, yet feature-rich website layout. The site design has been touched up slightly, and the biggest feature is an all-new Movies section (the beta phase only served up some episodes of TV shows - both obscure and popular). Hulu is running ad-supported feature-length movies interspersed with clips from big-name studio offerings.
There are quite a few TV shows to watch, as well. If you grew up watching Doordarshan as I did, you’ll be frolicking in nostalgic fervor once you hear that they have episodes of Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot! There’s no way I could sit through an entire episode of that now, but it was fun to just listen to the intro tune again!
Watching Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story on the side as I type this - interestingly, the movie was just interrupted by a DirecTV commercial. Too bad, for I’m not switching to a conventional TV subscription service any time soon.
