five reasons to love Hulu Plus<\/a>. I still stand by those ideas, even if they haven’t all worked out quite yet. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still potential here. There’s just a lot that needs to be improved.<\/p>\nI want to love Hulu Plus like I love Netflix. I want it to be convenient and consumer friendly, and I want to be able to cancel my cable TV. But it’s just not there yet. It’s not even better than theft.<\/p>\n
The biggest problem I’ve been running into is that there’s still a significant delay on some shows. A new favorite of mine is ‘Louie’ on FX. It’s absolutely hilarious and it’s strange to watch \u2013 ‘Louie’ isn’t presented in anything close to a traditional format.<\/p>\n
Since it’s an FX series, I have to wait eight days before I can watch each episode of ‘Louie’ on Hulu Plus. That means that my friend, who downloads it illegally, gets to watch it before I do. It’s actually faster to steal the show than to pay for it and wait a week.<\/p>\n
The other thing I find disappointing in Hulu Plus is the quality of its HD streams. It’s not that the picture is bad \u2013 it’s fine. But I had absolutely no luck making an HD stream work. I’ve got a decent connection, more than enough bandwidth, and a computer that can handle high-definition video. Yet when it comes to Hulu Plus, I just get chunks. HD works wonderfully when I’m watching Netflix, but not Hulu Plus.<\/p>\n
Again, to compare this with piracy, I could jump online right now and download a 720p version of any new show I want to, and it’ll play with absolutely no problem. There’s a good chance it’ll even play on my Xbox 360 or PS3. It’ll look great and play without the need to buffer even once.<\/p>\n
These free downloads also have absolutely no commercials. Hulu Plus is supposed to have fewer interruptions than regular Hulu, but sitting through a 2 \u00bd-minute commercial for the latest Jennifer Aniston vehicle doesn’t feel like less to me.<\/p>\n
Obviously, there are the moral and legal issues of stealing a show. We don’t endorse illegal bit torrents here at The Bonus View, but from a practical standpoint, it’s hard to argue against them when you’re paying for the channel anyway and the legal downloading options are as inconvenient as Hulu Plus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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