Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.

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[CatNamedHugs]

Someone make one of those Reddit RemindMe things for this prediction: before this administration is over, that Oracle family of neo-nazis will acquire Disney/Hulu just like they did HBO/TW and all those nice $12/13-per-month prices will be in the ~$40 range.

 

[NinjaNerd56]

We are OG Hulu folks, and have the BUNDLE OF MOUSE. Plus HBO de jour.

Better and cheaper than Cox…barely. Price is stupid for Live TV.

 

[PostmanPat]

It would be a shame to see Hulu shuttered, I've had a Hulu account for nearly 20 years. As a former GE employee we all got invited to the Hulu private beta just before Christmas 2007 and I've used it regularly ever since.

 

[Granadico]

I'm somehow grandfathered into the Spotify+Hulu student discount years after it ran out, it'd be a huge bummer to lose the deal, it'd more than double the price. I've been dreading it being shut down so it's good to hear I've at least got a little time.

 

[MilanKraft]

Ah yes, I remember Hulu. Streaming quality service with a cable bundle price — and owned by a slimeball company. Yeah I don't miss giving you $90 a month for a "premium" bundle and still being forced to regularly watch ads. And then being told I can pay a little more for "Ad Free"... "that still might have some ads."

Please fuck off and take orange man with you.

 

[Entegy]

I've pointed out before, this made Hulu content easily available to those outside of the US, where Hulu was never available. Some Hulu original content was made available via other providers, but not all.

Here in Canada, Hulu is just part of Disney+, which is nice.

 

[Fatesrider]

We are OG Hulu folks, and have the BUNDLE OF MOUSE. Plus HBO de jour.

Better and cheaper than Cox…barely. Price is stupid for Live TV.

I have to admit I don't miss live TV at all. I spent the first half of my life watching it, and always resented the issue about schedules. DVR's helped free that up by a lot, but then the commercial bloat became huge.

But once the FCC gave all that bandwidth away and went to digital signals, I've not lived in a zone that can pick up OTA at all in 30 years. That began to wean me off of live TV. But it was the commercial bloat that did it.

Back when I first started watching TV, an hour long show had 5 minutes of commercials. When I said "Fuck this" and went with online stuff about 15 years ago, there was 22-25 minutes of commercials per hour long show. It got so bad that when I realized I forgot what the hell I was watching after the longest commercial break toward the end of the show, I decided I didn't need that shit anymore and cut the cord before "cord cutting" was even a thing.

So, no more live TV and no regrets.

I have Cox as an ISP, but I dumped the "TV" side of that ages ago because they had 100's of channels, almost all of it some kind of live competition bullshit (Reality TV that had nothing to do with reality, of course) and pretty much nothing to watch and almost all of that was commercial. I have a list of rotating streaming channels I'll binge for a month then come back to in a year when the selection's have rotated out to new ones. It's a bit more work to stay ahead of it, but there's a new technology that will put a notice right in your face if you need it to be there to tell you when to do things, instead of a disregarded calendar on the wall with circles and notes I can't read from my chair.

Works out great. No stress. No hassles. No ads.

 

[Langdon]

Hulu was a no brainer when they offered up the Black Friday yearly deals. With the sheer amount of ads they throw in there now its not worth the $12.

 

[NinjaNerd56]

I have to admit I don't miss live TV at all. I spent the first half of my life watching it, and always resented the issue about schedules. DVR's helped free that up by a lot, but then the commercial bloat became huge.

But once the FCC gave all that bandwidth away and went to digital signals, I've not lived in a zone that can pick up OTA at all in 30 years. That began to wean me off of live TV. But it was the commercial bloat that did it.

Back when I first started watching TV, an hour long show had 5 minutes of commercials. When I said "Fuck this" and went with online stuff about 15 years ago, there was 22-25 minutes of commercials per hour long show. It got so bad that when I realized I forgot what the hell I was watching after the longest commercial break toward the end of the show, I decided I didn't need that shit anymore and cut the cord before "cord cutting" was even a thing.

So, no more live TV and no regrets.

I have Cox as an ISP, but I dumped the "TV" side of that ages ago because they had 100's of channels, almost all of it some kind of live competition bullshit (Reality TV that had nothing to do with reality, of course) and pretty much nothing to watch and almost all of that was commercial. I have a list of rotating streaming channels I'll binge for a month then come back to in a year when the selection's have rotated out to new ones. It's a bit more work to stay ahead of it, but there's a new technology that will put a notice right in your face if you need it to be there to tell you when to do things, instead of a disregarded calendar on the wall with circles and notes I can't read from my chair.

Works out great. No stress. No hassles. No ads.

Dude…Hulu Live gives you unlimited DVR for 9 months before rolling off oldest recorded. Almost everything can be paused, rewound, etc. Point is, we rarely watch ‘live’ TV…live.

Tonight is Survivor finale. It records the whole season. But, regular CBS ads. Tomorrow…ad-free on Paramount Plus app. BUT, we hate spoilers…so we are waiting 30 minutes and then FF through commercials. By the end, we will catch up and see the live aftershow…live.

When we dumped Cox for TV, I repurposed the coax into each room as an OTA feed from an amplified splitter in my wiring closet. When Cox puked, we still had 66 local channels. Now on fiber 1/3 the price of Cox. Added an HDHomerun and fed an OTA cable to it. If we are in the storm shelter, we can get an OTA feed to a phone or tablet.

Again, we don’t watch a lot realtime; we are old and weird.