Tag Archive for Hulu

Downstreaming: Amazon Prime Instant Video

by Guru • March 14, 2011

Amazon Instant Video for Prime Subscribers is a great idea. Many think this is Amazon’s move to compete withNetflix and Hulu. Amazon already has a well-reviewed pay-per-view service and a rental service can get access to movies that a subscription service cannot. Amazon Prime is a service that offers 2-day shipping on any Amazon purchase for…

by Guru • February 13, 2011

It was in December that we took our Roku on the road, visiting relatives, and vowed to spend the entire weekend watching only things on Hulu Plus. Some compare Hulu Plus to Netflix, which is easy. They are both streaming services, both $7.99 a month, and both offer TV shows and movies unlimited for a…

by Guru • January 30, 2011

Last week, TNL.net did some analysis of how the top streaming video services were doing in terms of the most popular video entertainment of 2010. They compared Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Video-on-Demand, and iTunes.

by Guru • January 21, 2011

This week, well-known blogger and co-founder of both Gizmodo and Engadget, Peter Rojas, announced he’d finally pulled the plug and cancelled his cable TV service. Rojas will be using a Mac Mini with a Silicondust HDHomerun, plus EyeTV, Boxee, Hulu, Netflix, and Kylo.

by Guru • January 9, 2011

We’re big fans of Boxee here. We don’t use it on a daily basis(partly because of the issues with using it under Fedora Linux). We’ve been at every Boxee New York City event, we’ve annoyed their CEO.

by Guru • January 9, 2011

Last week, Roku announced they served their one billionth stream of content after announcing they’d sold one million units. We first started talking about the Roku box two years ago when it was for Netflix only. Since then, Roku has unveiled countless channels…some good, some useless…well, to us at least.

by Guru • October 19, 2010

The MythTV Development team has announced that the first release candidate for MythTV version .24 is now available for download. This means that the full version is not far behind. The Dev team has adopted a much more aggressive development cycle of late, possibly due to the long period between .21 and .22. New features of note(at least to us) include:

by Guru • October 24, 2009

Image via Wikipedia We like Hulu. We think it is a great service, and like any services that offer good content at the wonderfully low-low price of free. However, Hulu is considering adding a premium product…where they could offer things they don’t offer now at a premium. Some people, despite its free nature, don’t like…

by Guru • October 15, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, MythTV unveiled its version 0.22 Release Candidate 1. It has been almost two years since version 0.21 was released, and the change brings a great deal of welcome changes. Support for the HD-PVR 1212 – The Hauppauge HD-PVR captures analog HD video and digital audio from component video inputs and outputs…

by Guru • October 8, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Hulu, the online movie streaming site, released a version of its Desktop software for linux. Now, we’re Linux people, so we love that a company has released Linux software. But we can’t help but think back to how this affects Boxee. Hulu asked them to remove support, then unveiled their desktop app,…