Good? Bad? I don’t know….
But I just watched a video clip on the new hulu.com site, which is the product of a collaboration between NBC Universal and Fox and has a whole bunch of big media players as content partners. You can watch movies, TV shows and clips on the site—all for free. (Or “free” if you’re recently het up over LJ’s recent nonannouncement about the demise of basic accounts. I’m all right with advertising-supported—businesses gotta pay their bills.)
On the good: decent quality video, complete television shows, complete movies. And it’s not likely to squash YouTube like a bug, land of user-generated content that YouTube is (and hopefully always will be).
On the potential bad: What does this mean for unsanctioned fanvids on places like YouTube? Will Hulu media partners get more aggressive about DCMAing them out of existence?
Meanwhile, I’d better get writing if I want to have time to watch an old Fantasy Island on Hulu later.
(Someone let me know when a Firefox extension or Mac app shows up that’ll rip videos off the site—I like flexibility in what I watch, from the Archos on the go to the big screen with the nice sound system downstairs. Or what if I want to watch on my Macbook—when I’m not online?)
