Hulu Plus Sucks

Hulu Plus is terrible. I signed up for a free trial expecting there to be more shows available and to not have commercials during them. Not only is there just about nothing available that's not available on the regular Hulu, there are still commercials during the shows! So you're basically paying 7.99 a month to have the ability to use Hulu on a Playstation 3, Iphone, Android, etc and watch things in HD.

Maybe this service wouldn't be as bad if it wasn't for Netflix, which is the same price, has more TV shows and movies, and streams in HD on basically any device you can think of. Even Hulu themselves knows this service sucks as they admitted in an e-mail response to an angry user.

In the ideal world, we would absolutely love and want nothing more but to be able to get every popular show out there that users love, and acquire the legal rights to stream them across every fancy device imaginable at the price that everybody wants. Unfortunately, due to stringent contract agreements on how content can be shared through certain devices, we are not able to have all of the content that everyone wants at this time.

So in an ideal world Hulu Plus wouldn't suck, but unfortunately it does and Hulu is sorry they're making you pay 7.99 for a bad service.

Unfortunately this is just beginning as Hulu will most likely take away their free service after this "preview" period is over. I really was on board with Hulu because it seemed like a win for everyone involved. The television networks were advertised, more people were able to watch shows they like, and the advertising made it relatively profitable. Obviously, something mutually good for the consumer and service provider would be too much for a company created by NBC and NewsCorp.

While Hulu is doing this to become more profitable it needs to be put in perspective that it still generates around 10 million dollars a year in profit. So really what we have here is a company trying to make you pay more for a service that is already making money. Of course the bottom line for Hulu is not pleasing its' millions of customers but making more money off them. Shame on you Hulu.