Hulu’s Down by 2, Roku’s Ahead by a Mile!!

By Paul | Mar 3, 2010

As I’ve had the Roku for the past month, I wanted to talk about this a little. I talked about how you can watch Hulu Cheaply on your TV set but that can be a pain a pain.

Now we’ve heard in the past that Hulu might become a pay site.   Although it might just be speculation it would be interesting to find out if they will sooner or later offer this service for people who have Roku to pay a nominal fee per month.

In all truthfulness we haven’t connected my laptop to the Television set lately because of all the new movies and shows that come out on Netflix.  So I thought about how Hulu could make even more money by offering Hulu with a nominal fee to the Roku Community who live in the US.  Even if they only charge $5 dollars a month, I would definitely pay that much.

Hulu’s misses out of Roku, Not so wise!!

By Paul | Feb 15, 2010

Photo by : Bonnaf

In 1926 we started to have a way t o see moving images in our living room.    Although it didn’t really take off until 1930’s, we started to gather around the television on it schedule.   We go 80 years in the future and now we can have access to any television program old and new that is being stored on the internet.

On March 28, 2008, Hulu launches a service that lets you stream programs to your personal computer.  We can watch programs without having to worry about the television schedule.

We have started to come of age to such that we are streaming podcasts, Movies, Music, and television shows on the internet.  Now we know Hulu doesn’t have a lot of control on their content.   I even talked about ways to watch Hulu on your television for cheap. We have advertisers who we like and don’t like but that can change.     I say it is the advertisers who has more control of where Hulu goes and not Hulu but that is just speculation.   I blogged a little about the Roku and my impressions of it.

Is Paying for HULU the end of non-pirated media??

By Paul | Oct 25, 2009

I have been seeing comments on Hulu Discussion board. I wanted to talk about this because of no one knows this better than me, why Hulu would lost major Revenue and people if they did become an Pay per Month site. hulu_logo_270x129

Now let’s talk about what people are saying about Hulu site. Some sites are talking about seeing the signs of Hulu becoming a Pay site. Pcworld, Writes an article on 5 ways I’d pay for hulu, although I am not to happy how they talk about it. It is however a very interesting concept. Some are talking about this being done as soon as 2010. I don’t know how well you agree or disagree but here is what I see would happen if this did become a pay site:

  • Pirated shows come out of wood work — Yes this will most likely become popular all over again. You would not need to pay hulu to go watch it somewhere else for FREE. If Hulu did start making people pay they would have loose people left and right.

Hulu Days of Summer For July 27 thru 31, 2009

By Paul | Jul 25, 2009

So here are the latest Clues for The next week:

  • Monday July 27, 2009 — Desperate Housewives Season 1 and Day Break (The Complete Series) (clue : “B00079FUI6 & B00127Z5D2″)
  • Tuesday July 28, 2009 –October Roads First and Second Season (Clue : 786936754209)
  • Wednesday July 29, 2009 — Queer as Folk (UK Version) (Clue : tt0185102)
  • Thursday July 30, 2009 –
  • Friday July 31, 2009 –

and the clues information:

  • Monday July 27, 2009 — Clue one google it and it comes up with Desperate Housewives Season 1 and If you google the other clue it will come back with Amazon Day break Complete season.
  • Tuesday July 28, 2009 –Although it is the UPC code for Second Season of October roads, I would think they would also put first season on there too.   Wouldn’t make no since just to put second season and not the first season.
  • Wednesday July 29, 2009 — Just google the “tt0185102” it comes back Queer as Folks UK version.
  • Thursday July 30, 2009 –
  • Friday July 31, 2009 –

Sorry It took so Long but I had some things to do Friday Night Enjoy!!

Hulu Days of Summer Clues July 20 to July 24 2009

By Paul | Jul 17, 2009

Ok so Hulu Released the clues starting off for Monday:

  • Monday July 20, 2009 — Stargate Sg-1 Season 5 (Clue “Between Two Fires“)
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  • Tuesday July 21, 2009 — Inuyasha (Clue : Seekers of the Sacred Jewel)
  • Wednesday July 22, 2009 — “H.R. Pufnstuf“   (Clue : “The Wheely Bird”)
  • Thursday July 23, 2009 –   Power Rangers S.P.D. Spaced (Clue : Beginnings)
  • Friday July 24, 2009 — X-men Evolution (Clue : Strategy X)

And Here are some things that I know:

  • Monday July 20, 2009 –  Between Two Fires is one of the episodes in Stargate SG-1.   Yipee I can’t wait till monday!!
  • Tuesday July 21, 2009 –  People have discovered it is the Show Inuyasha a TV Series.
  • Wednesday July 22, 2009 — A Really old Children TV Show That is about all I can say! I don’t know how what happened, because It was “The Electric Company” And not “H.R. Pufnstuf” according to front page. It could be a mistake so I will wait and change this if they don’t fix it by this Afternoon

Hulu Days of Summer for July 13 through 17, 2009

By Paul | Jul 10, 2009

So here are the Clues for:

And Here are what I think they will be:

Hulu Days of Summer Clues for July 6 thru 10, 2009

By Paul | Jul 3, 2009

Ok So we hit it off well this week now they seem to want to give us some really hard ones.   So I figure we can disqus this in the forums or other in comment sections.  I want to hear what you think:

So Let’s Start this off,  There are Some good Possibilities:

Back by Popular Demand Hulu days Of summer June 29 – July 3 2009

By Paul | Jun 30, 2009

So I had a couple people wanting me to keep track like we did last year so I will be start by updating this daily with new clues.   Look to be updated late night for those who want to keep updated for them:

  • Monday June 29, 2009 -  Dead Again (Clue : 16Tl4k)
  • Tuesday June 30, 2009 – Rhoda and  The Donna Read Show (Clue: CBfWJ, zlpdl)
  • Wednesday July 1, 2009 – Benny & Joon And Prelude to a Kiss (Clue : pbKEf, 2MqNCV)
  • Thursday July 2, 2009 – Sliders Season 3 — (Clue: 10×3u9)
  • Friday July 3, 2009 – Dead Like Me Season 1 — (Clue : nMhKQ)

I will update daily when they put out more clues so Check back daily on my Homepage for more. I will keep this on the sticky until the next clue comes out. Feel free to discuss this on my Forums or the Disqus community.  Although these seem simple they might get harder later one so I might need your help in solving these.

How to Watch Internet TV on your TV : The Cheap Way!!

By Paul | Jun 29, 2009

As many of you know, I am a great fan of Hulu.   Recently I went searching to find out how to watch Hulu without having to buy NETGEAR Digital Entertainer Live (Black) and Paying a monthly service.  So Here’s is what you need to watch it on your TV.

What you will need:

Video
S-Video Cables — If you plan to use S-video in then this is what you will need.  The good thing about this is most Laptops have S-Video Out.   Although this isn’t always the case this is how I watch Hulu on TV.

VGA to S-Video — Some laptops only have VGA you will be able to tell by the look of the connection but if you have this tool you can convert any VGA connection to S-video easily.

Philips 3-Way AV Selector For $9.88 –This is the cheap way for those who can only connect coaxial cable inputs.   This is what you will need to use on Older TV’s.

Audio

Hulu Days Of Summer are here again

By Paul | Jun 23, 2009

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So we have it here right now, and it starts out really good.   You can watch Stargate SG1 Season 1 through 4 the whole summer.  The last of the Mohicans was the frst movie they brought out for this event.  I rember last years one where we had to guess the coming week.  Some of the ones that I did last year were:

Now I don’t know all that will come this summer but I would of liked to have clues like we did last year. That would of been really fun.  Oh well, I will keep watch on this and see what comes from this.   I also have been using the Hulu Desktop more and more, it seems to work well with A600 Cricket modem really well.  For those who have it, I would suggest using the lowest quality of playback for using it.  It really isn’t bad quality for watching shows and such on.   You really don’t have to worry to much about buffering.  Although you should check your settings on the player and change them.

Malicious Spammers target Bank of America

By Paul | Mar 14, 2009

I’ve saw two different security firms talking about Bank of America and I wanted to share with you:

Fake Bank Of America SitePicture from F-secure

The two sites are F-secure and Pandalabs who are talking about Bank of America and how they try to get you to install malware.  With Adobe having just sent out the new updates last month it looks like spammers are using this to get people to install Malware.

It is also been known to be floating around in Facebook this spam.  So if you get a link going to a site you don’t know about to see a video and it says you need a codec or the Adobe update you should turn right around and leave site. You should always type in the url of Your Bank and not go there through links.

From what they are saying it monitors Network traffic and Steals ICQ, POP3, and IMAP passwords.  If you find network traffic going to Hong Kong IP, then it is time to check to make sure all your Virus definitions are up to date and you’ve installed an Anti-virus and Firewall.  I would encourage  users to report it to Phishtank so that any other unsuspecting user or person going to that site will be warned.

Reviewing the 3G A600 Cricket Modem

By Paul | Mar 5, 2009

So I got the Modem and wanted to test out the speed being stationary, So I go to my usual site Speedtest.net look at the speed, check below for speed.
As you can see this went fairly well. It does depend on your Cricket Coverage area. So you want to hear all about it.

First thing if you are upgrading from the UM100 Broadband Card, You’ll want to uninstall the Quicklink Software.  To do that you can uninstall it by going to:

Computer > C: Drive > Program Files > Cricket > Quicklink > UNWISE.EXE

(This will uninstall the Quicklink software, I’d suggest after you uninstall it you reboot.)

a600cricketspeed

How does the USB Modem work?

Once you do that you can then insert the A600 Modem into your USB.  The Nice thing about this is the software for the Modem is on the Modem itself, so you don’t loose the CD for the modem.  It currently only supports Windows and MAC OSX operating system but I have seen there is a work around to use the A600 Modem with Linux if your wondering.Once you insert it into the USB you’ll find you have a new Drive.  It will say a Cricket CD Drive with 24 megs used.  You’ll want to run that program on the Cricket CD and that will install the software.

Facebook Goes Phishing again

By Paul | Mar 1, 2009

In one of my Previous articles about the Koobface Worm, I talked about the way they were infecting the systems and what you need not do.

It seems that Trend Micro has seen an even more rise in people downloading the WORM_KOOBFACE.AZ and Seems to be on the RISE. This is all done with a Social engineering and Has had some attempts before with this little worm on Facebook.

After your Infected with this new Variant, it searches for cookies and Sends out a message to people from:
* facebook.com
* hi5.com
* friendster.com
* myyearbook.com
* myspace.com
* bebo.com
* tagged.com
* netlog.com
* fubar.com
* livejournal.com

This seems to be a social engineering Nightmare for these websites and as yet are unsure what else it does but it says the same thing it did before by saying “This is a Video of You on the Street.” Which is bogus but none the less people click and think they have to download a codec or update their Flash. Social Engineering is on the rise and will be taken seriously. You should read the full report from Trend on what it does but you also should have an anti-virus and Firewall installed to prevent this from happening in the first place. The only true way of preventing this is not to be fooled, you should NEVER Download from a site you don’t know or trust. See all the Facebook articles for more information.

ThePirateBay might be blocked in the US

By Paul | Feb 8, 2009

I was looking around on Google and thought I just for giggles check out the Piratebay complaints. I tried going to the site and here’s what Popups:

notauthorized

I tried on OpenVPN and my Local ISP, It keeps saying that. I then tried on my Cricket Modem and it tells me the connection has been interrupted, like something stops the connection in the first place. I can ping it and I can Tracert the Site but I can’t even view it. I would like to know if Anyone else is having this problem also. Although I’ve not checked Thepiratebay.org complaints for quite some time because I’ve been so busy with my website. If you want to watch your favorite shows check out these sites like Hulu, CBS, NBC, ABC, ABC FAMILY and TNT.TV for free. I am just curious as to what happened and does this have anything to do with Net Neutrality?   Anyway I wanted to talk about this and see what people are saying.  Anyone know what is going on?  Let’s talk about this and help everyone by saying what you know.   I don’t know if Thepiratebay.org is down but I do wonder if someone is preventing people from getting to the website.   I’ll update when I have more information.

Superbowl 2009 Ad’s are on HULU

By Paul | Feb 2, 2009

Now I don’t have to watch the Superbowl to see all the ads. The Day after the Superbowl, Hulu releases the ads that were at the half time. So here they are:

So what ones do I like:

Naruto Shippuden Now available on HULU

By Paul | Dec 20, 2008

Availability:

The final, never-before-aired-in-the-U.S. episodes of Naruto (Episodes 216-220) are currently available on this page as a crossover from the original Naruto series to Shippuden.

Beginning January 15, Hulu will stream direct from Japan the most recent subtitled, uncut episode of Naruto Shippuden each Thursday (starting with Episode 89).

Episodes from the first two seasons of Naruto Shippuden will also be released — 8 episodes each Friday — starting January 2.

If you’ll like me and what to find out what will happen toa Naruto Shippuden to this is something that should be talked about. If you want to see the beginning check the old Naruto episodes.  I’ve had to wait for each episode to be available at the store to watch it.  So now I don’t have to buy the episodes.   They will be starting with the latest episode and be available every Thursday.  This is so great people who are love the Japan Animation will be able to watch the most current episode from japan.

Jeff Dunham and “Walter” interview

By Paul | Dec 5, 2008

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Although people don’t know this guy if you live outside of he US.  I saw this on a HULU and couldn’t resist he is the Funniest comedian I’ve seen in a while.   I absolutely love “Walter” and “Peanut“, Jeff Dunham is starting to make it on the rise.  I would love to see him come to Hulu.

Youtube gets ready to Launch “LIVE Event!!” 5pm PST/8pm EST

By Paul | Nov 21, 2008

As the time approaches for the live even for Youtube. There are many confirmed and only one I want to see right now. As many people will agree that Mythbusters is the best show on Discovery Channel. They have been confirmed to be there tomorrow.

They are getting ready!!!

Some of the major players confirmed to be there are Mythbusters, Soulja Boy Tell’em, Katy Perry, Esmee Denters, Akon, FRED, and Will. I. Am.   Now I don’t know all these stars.   I do Know Mythbusters and I’ve heard of FRED.   I’m just stating who is going to be there.

Then the Obvious question comes to my mind and I am sure this is being asked by everyone right now.  Is Mythbusters shows coming to Youtube?  I would say from what all is going on with Youtube, they might become a competitor to Hulu.  With them adding High Defination Viewing and allowing bigger video to be uploaded. There is no question that Youtube and Google is getting ready to release a major statement, or change there direction.   So be ready tomorrow at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST and let’s see what happens.

Hulu Launches the Hulu for the Holidays!

By Paul | Nov 17, 2008

This is near and dear to my heart.  Hulu finally launches the Hulu for the Holidays sponsored by Wal-Mart.   I have talked about what they might bring to the holiday season and if you want to find out what I thought might come to Hulu check out these links:

Some movies or show that will probably come to Hulu are going to be Christmas themes.  I would wager it will be Charlie Brown, Peanuts, The Grinch who Stole Christmas.  I am sure there will be even more later on, ones that I didn’t think would come to Hulu.   We shall see what comes from what they want to do the next few weeks.  To bad they aren’t doing clues this time around people seemed to like doing that.


Stargate Atlantis ends after the 5 Season!

By Paul | Nov 15, 2008

After 5th season there will be no more weekly shows of Atlantis.   According to Gateworld:

Atlantis remains an extremely strong performer in DVR-delayed viewing, though, often building as much as 25 to 30 percent on its premiere night audience.

I kept saying Atlantis should of been on Hulu, just like every other show they would have a more solid audience and more  viewers to count.  The only reason Eureka and others got more ratings was because they could watch the latest shows on Scifi or Even Hulu.  Unlike Stargate Atlantis on Hulu, they only have small clips.   In order to build a fanbase, you need to build around the most current way to show the show off.   Granted it still did rather well with ratings and all but it could of done better by putting it on HULU.   There are sites out there that would like to Save Atlantis and I agree with them.  I would love to see more seasons of Atlantis, and see it on HULU.

Hulu Launches upcoming Movie Trailers Brought to you SPRINT!

By Paul | Oct 28, 2008

Hulu launched movie trailers of the upcoming movies in the US.   Now to say the least I like the idea to be able to go to Hulu on a Sprint Instinct or other mobile devices to see before I go to the movies.   So the ones I like right now are Star Wars :  Clone Wars.

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Some others that I like are Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince:

This will be nice to be check the trailers before I got to the movies.

Is Hulu encouraging people to watch shows illegally?

By Paul | Oct 24, 2008

Hulu Walkthrough

I’ve been scouring Hulu for the last few days and come up with some interesting observation.   I wanted to talk about Hulu’s commitment to its users.   I don’t say that lightly but just recently the distributors and the copyright holders only have been putting up a few episodes here and there on old shows like:

Some of the comments I’ve seen have been talking about watching the rest of the shows from other sources:

Hulu brings Season 3 of the Pretender!

By Paul | Oct 22, 2008

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Jarod’s reunion with his father is marred by news of the Centre’s latest project — a teenaged clone of Jarod himself. However, assassins from the Centre are hot on their trail.

So I get this email talking about this show that I liked to watch when I was a kid.  Talking about The Pretender : Donterase – Season 3 episode 21.   So I watch it and wanted to let people know that they had that episode and probably more to come!!!  Keep an eye out for more!!  According to IMDB that was a 2 part episode so there must be another one coming. I’ll post as soon as I find out!!

Is Hulu the “salad course”?

By Paul | Oct 18, 2008

Hulu Walkthrough

As I’ve been watching Hulu the last few months.  I’ve come to think that Hulu isn’t offering us the viewers the chance of a full course meals.  They seem to like to stop after the first 2-3 seasons on most of the shows.    I recently contacted Hulu about the Naruto episodes and here’s what they had to say about it:

Thanks for the email. On background, sometime in the coming weeks, Hulu
will get the remaining episodes of Naruto Season 1, and we'll also get
episodes from Season 2-3 in the future as well. 

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
Brandon Boone

So why does Hulu do this? I have a theory and this is one that most people will agree on. My theory is that the distributors are trying to entice us into buying the rest of the seasons from someplace, like Amazon or Itunes. Now I am going to have to say this is really stupid way of business and will sooner or later create even more of a demand to download these shows illegally. In the past people have always looked for the cheap way to watch there favorite shows.

The Anime Channel comes to Hulu

By Paul | Sep 24, 2008

I was exploring Hulu and I see they added the Anime Channel.  I check it out and they have some good shows that I wanted to get add.  You see most Anime I like is, well Japan Animation.  Hulu adding that will make more Japan Animations be seen.  So What do they have available:

Mushi-Shi

DeathNote

Naruto

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As you can see they are making channels for you to watch.  This is getting really good.  If you want to check out what channels they have just go to Hulu and there will be Scroll down bar called Channel.  I am thoroughly liking how they did this!!  I hope to see more Naruto in the future.  I hope they can get all the episodes and be up to where they are in Japan.  I am also hoping they start put the new episodes directly to Hulu.  That would be nice!!

How to Improve Hulu’s Advertising :

By Paul | Sep 15, 2008

Lately I’ve been looking though Hulu and seeing what else they have done.  I’ve found a secret that most people don’t know or haven’t look at just yet.  If your tired of some of the ads that come through Hulu.  You have the chance to improve the ads by making your voice heard.

You can pick “Like Ad” or “Dislike Ad

Although this isn’t anything new with some stuff.  This however can create even better ads for hulu.  You see if they can get the right demographic idea of what people like, then they will understand what we as a viewer likes.  I simply love this idea.  This is a tramendous step for Hulu, this means we have control over advertising, and we can make or break an ad depending on who likes it.

You can pick “Like Ad” or “Dislike Ad

As you can see these are poping up on all or most of the ads.  If you would like to make your voice be heard.  All you have to do is when an ad comes to you and you like it or hate it just get out of full screen mode by hitting esc (only one time) and you too will see the choices when you hover over that area.

Living the Life of a Blogger 101

By Paul | Aug 29, 2008

Having been blogging for the last few months and years. I’ve learned so much from blogger the platform. I thought I would talk about that in this post. To give those who want to use Googles Blogger platform to there fullest. It is inconsequential to the grand scheme of blogging. It is not enough to just blog it has to be some kind of meaning in it. You have to think of how best can I help people out. It is legal to use fair use. That is why congress has put it into congress.

Fair Use comes from the idea of using something that is ‘Copyrighted’ and use some portion of it to talk about or as a demonstration. Most people don’t understand that, you can use anything on the web as long as you don’t publish there material fully. I like to us hulu for example. I’ve embedded there videos on my site, and talked about Hulu from time. This last few weeks they had clues out on there site. I started trying to solve the clues they Published to better help figuring out there clues. Although they might consider there promotion as being copyrighted. I used there clues to publish what I considered was fair use. They couldn’t do much other than smile that some one started blogging about there clues weekly because once they published there clues. I had the right to try to figure the clues out. I actually loved doing it.

Hulu United States Only — FAQ

By Paul | Aug 27, 2008


In a Comment on there Hulu Blog,

Umm, when exactly did Hulu decide to shut its doors to everyone outside of America? The site’s title is “Watch your Favorites. Anytime. For Free”. I’m sorry Hulu, this is a complete lie, as anyone viewing your site outside of the US is banned from viewing your videos. All the time. So that you know, I intend on writing a letter to Joss Whedon asking that he pull his Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog video from your network and redistribute it to a video site that isn’t run by people who embrace the philosophy “Defective By Design”. That way, the thousands of other people wanting to see this video, like me, don’t have to resort to downloading the thing via the piratebay.

Well, This is something I wanted to discuss for everyone who reads my blog why Hulu isn’t allowing anyone outside of America to see the videos.   It’s all have to do with there contracts they have with certain providers.

Hulu Brings on Paramount Movies!

By Paul | Aug 19, 2008

As you can see Paramount has been seen at Hulu.  I thought I would talk about some movies that I could be coming to Hulu.  So let’s talk about some of them shall we.  I can see so many good movies:

  • Paycheck What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he’s being chased. full summary | full synopsis
  • The Saint Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn’t even his real name. Yet Simon Templar … more | full synopsis
  • Ghost After being killed during a botched mugging, a man’s love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost. full summary

HD Ware in Downloads!

By Paul | Aug 11, 2008

Although, I think HD is the same thing as Blu-ray.  Most people now a days are looking into the the download section instead of having a DVD.  So here is what I think they missed.  Some things you might be missing is that Hulu has decided to take on the cause and start publishing the HD videos.

Having seen, the devastation of the format war. Engadget talked about this same little thing.   Either way I think we only begun to see the relevance and cost of downloading.  We’ve got two different formats trying to get on the bandwidth of your local ISP.  Here’s where it get hard.  Which of the two would you rather download, a 8 gig or a 20 gig file.  Then you have to think of how much time it will take to download the file so you could watch it.

As you can see it gets so hard to download all these types of files when you could stream it.  Yes you could download it but downloading it takes time.  Why not watch it in relatively short time, like 10 minutes or so!! So I thought I throw out a few ideas on stream this HD without having to download it.

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