>Watch your favourites. Anytime. For free.

Unless we don't like what you are using to view it. And people wonder why TV torrents are incredibly popular.

@Zan, or where you're viewing from, another limitation torrents don't have.

I swear, when I saw this story on my RSS reader, I thought the headline was "Why you can't play Halo on your PS3". Definition of a slow news day.

Well the good news is that this only affects a minority of PS3s as the majority of PS3 owners have never been able to use Hulu.

@KensterFox

Oh that made me lol. I'd like to see that article on a slow news day though.

Its unlikely that Hulu will be showing up on the Xbox360. Like Phazer said this is coming from the broadcast networks who provide the programming to Hulu.

The broadcast networks are suffering from extremely diminished ratings. The networks have been pretty clear on their desire to keep Hulu off television sets and on monitors only. There are of course easy ways around this, like connecting your computer to your TV if you have the right video car/TV. Most Americans don't do this though.

At any rate, the networks don't want Hulu on TV and so I think it will be a while before you see consoles having that kind of capability. Services you pay for however, like Netflix, are a different story.

I have yet to see what the difference is between surfing on a PC and a PS3. If they're scared of something it should be the PC. You can capture pretty much everything and torrent the shit out of it. Now on a PS3 it would be rather difficult.

I also wonder if it would make any difference if you use Linux on your PS3. Because then it is running as a PC. Anyone tried that yet?

Not that it makes much difference if you live outside the US anyway.

Honestly, when are these people going to crawl into the 21st century instead of trying to drag everyone else backward?

@Takeshi; It seems to be based on the brower's user-agent string. It -might- block anything registering itself as a ps3 (which ps3 linux... might do?), but even then it'd be stupidly easy to change.

The last time I used PlayOn it worked well (a couple weeks ago), though I don't use it much. And yeah, Hulu DOES have ads; in fact, ads for the Simpsons sell for more on Hulu than TV, so the networks should grow up and learn to catch up with technology. IPTV will happen eventually. Networks need to be more forward-thinking

Well this encourages me to go the less than legal route to watch my shows. I can't hook up my computer to the TV because it is really old. Looks like I will be using torrents and there advertisers will not get the ad views.

Another boxee like blockage. Hulu not streaming to anything but pcs is only going to perpetuate torrenting of their content.

I tend to torrent everything myself, but this is honestly bullcrap. Why the PS3 hate all of a sudden? Does Hulu like having people angry with then?

I tend to torrent everything myself, but this is honestly bullcrap. Why the PS3 hate all of a sudden? Does Hulu like having people angry with then?

Given the choice for Hulu is being sued by millions of individual contributors to the programmes and the networks withdrawing all the programmes, I imagine Hulu would rather post photos on their frontpage of them defacating on a PS3 if they were told to, never mind just blocking them.

It's not even just the networks - the issue is that lots of old TV contracts tended to define delivering to a set top box as Video On Demand rather than online streaming. And because cable VOD used to be pay-per-view, that means the actors and writers residuals are higher, which is probably enough to make Hulu unprofitable... So they're blocked. That won't be the case with all programmes, but probably enough to justify not doing the admin on a case by case basis.

I'm afraid I'll never understand the logic that this justifies piracy though. Congrats, then the jobbing actors don't get paid! That'll teach the networks!

No problem. The ps3 is great at streaming videos I've downloaded onto my PC.

@ThePhazer I have no idea what you are talking about and I'm about 100% sure neither do you.

First off all these "little" individual companies are controlled by one large company typically in the universe we live in this still counts as being one company. This includes a lot of these TV networks you mention. For instance NBC Universal owns Hulu. As far as I know I have not heard about NBC being sued by anyone. Also they are in turned owned by GE. Also as you can tell NBC is part of Universal. Which in turn they are part of Vivendi Universal or now called Vivendi.

Which funny enough this becomes game related right here because Vivendi owns Activision-Blizzard.

Anyway point being stfu if you don't know what your talking about. A lot of these "individual" networks you talk about are owned by the parent company. As are the movies.

Also

Hulu is free and legal through an advertising supported model.

* Videos are available for unlimited streaming; watch favorite shows and clips over and over, for free

Right on the website. So ya it's for streaming.

So can we just label you as know nothing talk a lot of nothing?

On another note thought the reason they are doing this is either because PS3 works region free allowing restricted regions to use hulu or xbox has hulu on lock down. Which if I'm not mistaken is the case.

http://gizmodo.com/5114459/could-hulu-be-coming-to-xbox-360

i'll try that Takeshi. next time i switch to linux i'll try.

Just use PlayOn.

@dinnertime ninja : you're actually only half right. The audience commodity is as Predictable as any other. They know what we're watching based on the desirability of advertizing space. Time shifting via hulu likely has little impact on that.

@ThePhazer I have no idea what you are talking about and I'm about 100% sure neither do you.

It's a bit of a shitter for you that I'm a broadcast rights consultant professionally then, isn't it?

First off all these "little" individual companies are controlled by one large company typically in the universe we live in this still counts as being one company. This includes a lot of these TV networks you mention. For instance NBC Universal owns Hulu.

No it doesn't. Hulu is a separate company. NBC is a shareholder, but a minority one. Broadcast rights are complicated. Rights in shows will typically be owned by dozens of indviduals and companies, all with different holders and objectives.

As far as I know I have not heard about NBC being sued by anyone.

Any large company gets sued every week over issues. NBC are no exception. It's not even news.

Anyway point being stfu if you don't know what your talking about.

Well hello Mr Kettle! You are as black as a dead Transformer in a Michael Bay film.

A lot of these "individual" networks you talk about are owned by the parent company.

No they're not. Almost no networks have majority shareholders. And networks rarely own their own programmes - they have some licencable rights, but the copyright ultimately resides with the studios. Sometimes they might own the studios, but not necessarily, and not necessarily the same network that shows the programme.

On another note thought the reason they are doing this is either because PS3 works region free allowing restricted regions to use hulu or xbox has hulu on lock down. Which if I'm not mistaken is the case.

Now you're really talking nonsense - Hulu's access is controlled by IP geo-location. The PS3 doesn't somehow magically connect to the internet in a way that doesn't use an IP address, and nor is it region free (it's games aren't region protected, though it's quite technically capable of doing so, and it does use regional blu-ray movie lockouts).

The Xbox deal as it rumoured ain't likely to happen either, precisely because of the above.

Ooops! I meant Volemon, not Magnalon...Sorry..

@The Stripe,

The desirability of ad space doesn't equate directly AT ALL to who (and how many of the "who") is watching which shows.

All it tells you is who the ad companies THINK are watching the shows. And their thoughts are based off of Nielson data which almost no one is a part of.

Couple that with the fact that if ad space pricing is artificially inflated by any source, the demand from other advertisers can increase without ANY change in viewership.