hulu plus on new Apple TV?

numetheus wrote:

What does flash in a browser have anything to do with native support to play streaming content??!!? You need flash to play Netflix on a browser. Yet Apple TV, as well as other iDevices can play them because streaming functionality is provided by the software. If Apple were to strike a deal with Hulu, a firmware upgrade with internal support to play it's proprietary format using the Apple TV interface would be used. Or ... Is it your thinking that Apple TV plays Netflix movies in the background using browser and flash so the web page is hidden? That's not the way it works.

Actually Netflix uses Microsoft Silverlight. Your point is still valid, though.

I think that Hulu Plus on the Apple TV would be an amazing add-on. Netflix, YouTube and Hulu on the AppleTV would almost allow me to cancel cable. That's why there is so much interest!

By the by: iPad can now mirror NBC and ABC (via their apps) to AppleTV. The catch is it's a medium grade picture at best. But it's free.

This may be why Apple isn't bothering with Roku. It may dinosaur soon enough.

So much interest? You do realize this thread has been dormant since May, don't you?

Once posts get a week old on any board they fall out of view, or do your observations only apply to your side of a discussion?

Exactly @Michael_Colvin! If ATV would add HuluPlus and HBO-GO - I'd drop my cable service too!

I'm sure that's what the cable companies are afraid of - and why HBO doesn't offer a subscription service without a cable/satellite provider.

Unauthorized ? if he bought the thing he can do whatever he wants to it, jail breaking is perfectly legal

Drum_Phil wrote:

No offense, but Hulu is an unauthorized AppleTV "hack".

As such, this topic wouldn't be permitted on these forums.

Your best bet would be to pose the question on a Hulu or Boxee forum.

Philly30 wrote:

Unauthorized ? if he bought the thing he can do whatever he wants to it, jail breaking is perfectly legal

Yes, it's perfectly legal. However, that doesn't mean Apple has to allow discussions about it. And they don't beyond the very general. However, you're responding to a post that's over a year old. It's all moot.

For now I would just wait it out and just get the ATV and just switch between an Xbox360 or you TV.

There are plenty of other devices that have Hulu and pandora....

Considering Hulu is practically owned by networks who get most of their profit from their traditional business model, these kinds of statement probably don't help...true or not (we already dropped cable awhile back, but I just don't like jockeying between devices).