YouTube Competitor Hulu Launches Private Beta
October 29, 2007
Boston (dbTechno) - NBC Universal and News Corporation launched a new joint venture not too long ago to compete with the popular video site YouTube. Their site is called Hulu and the private beta for it has kicked off to allow for premium video content to the masses.
NBC Universal and News Corp. launched the private beta as of Monday, October 29th. The interface of Hulu is apparently very slick as this appears like it will give a great deal of competition to the YouTube service.
Hulu is a distribution network basically for premium content with many partner websites including MSN, AOL, Comcast, Yahoo, and MySpace. Hulu is going to offer videos for free along with their own Hulu branded players.
NBC and News Corp. has also cut a deal with Sony to make their television shows available on Hulu.com as well along with MGM TV shows and movies.
There are some things going against Hulu such as the fact that its co-founder NBC is launching their own ad-supported video-on-demand service called NBC Direct this coming fall.
Hulu though is going to launch with a wide range of old and new content with such shows as The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Battlestar Galactica, and others leading the way. New shows are added at midnight Hawaii time on the day they air.
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Hula may be the new internet “Super Station”
I am hoping that Hula features a non-stop
play list option, which does not require a click
per view. I hope to turn it on and leave it on.
I have found a hack to obtain access to this private beta..
Firstly sign for the beta service by supplying your email address. Hulu will send you the standard email saying we will send you an invitaion when we are ready..
Now try to login into hulu.com using the email address you have already supplied and select “Forgot Password”
Now Hulu will send you a reset password via email which you can use to login with your email address!!
Happy HULUing…