Gadget Wisdom

Techcrunch reported that developer Paul Yanez, who developed Adobe Air application My Media Player, which we posted about in November, has released a second version of his application. It features 400 TV shows and 208 movies from Hulu, and there is a full-screen mode that apparently works with a remote, as well as Twitter integration. The unfortunate problem is the application becomes disabled every time Hulu makes a major change to its service. Yanez suggests we email them to complain.

Yanez has released his framework and thoughts on building a media player. He wants it integrate with all web video, be easy to use, have a television style feel and be fully integrated with mobile devices.

If you don’t want to try Adobe Air, you can try the application out in a Browser window, by clicking here. Of course, it wasn’t working for us. Maybe we should complain to Hulu. It kept saying Video Unavailable.

We think Hulu should be developing an app like this themselves…or encouraging/hiring Yanez to do so for them. We’ve long complained about a lack of TV-like functionality on Hulu and other sites. And now, under pressure from content providers, these sites are limiting third party development of such software.

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Tags: Hulu, Paul Yanez

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