The Future Of Hulu

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How Hulu Will Suck As Bad As Cable

Right now Hulu shows video programs for free with a few obvious and well placed commercials. This is a wonderful change from the television and cable TV wasteland which consists of 25% to 33% commercials.

People ask me all the time why I refuse to get cable television in my house. The answer is simple: If you are paying to watch commercials then you are a sucker.

Sure the Cable company is just a distribution medium and the content providers put the commercials in upstream. That's all fine and good for the media giant's shareholders but my family has found that it's easier, more convenient, less annoying, and most importantly far cheaper than a Cable Television subscription to buy the DVD's sans commercials.

There have been some noises made by the media dinosaurs who have acquired Hulu that Hulu will go to a commercial free subscription based model. That's fine and good, but you and I both know that it won't be long until they start sliding commercials into the paid services just like with cable television. First it will be a trailer, then it will be the constant interruptions that make Cable programming so content free and worthless today.

So I guess when that happens I will refuse to pay for a Hulu subscription too. Sure it isn't HD quality but if I want to be entertained by people acting idiotic there's always YouTube.