Hulu Goes Public Today

After private beta for almost five months, Hulu, the joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation, goes public today. It's not a viral video site like YouTube. Instead, it focuses on professionally produced content like The Simpsons and Family Guy from Fox and The Office and 30 Rock from NBC. Even older stuff like Battlestar Galactica classic and Hart To Hart are found. There's even about 60 movies you can watch free like The Simpsons Movie, The Usual Suspects, and Moonstruck. Clips and episodes can be embedded in your site as you see above.
There are limitations to the site. The TV series available are somewhat limited and not all series have all episodes. For example, Family Guy only shows three full episodes but 221 popular clips from the show. Futurama is clips only, no episodes. The classic series Rockford Files shows only episodes from season one on the site, far less than the six seasons it ran. Still, this is a step in the right direction. Perhaps one day all TV will be available to watch online like this.

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