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If hulu starts charging for the content it provides now for free, I see its traffic base dwindling and hulu popularity dwindling. The fact is there are countless website that replicate hulu and for free as is but if they feel like a subscription paid model will work for them I personally won’t feel like they appreciate me very much as part of thier traffic base. I like many others will drop this site because of the change in model and that’s it. It’s really not that complicated nobody is going to pay for something that you can get for free. Plus other website will be more than willing to step in and provide that same service for bite of that traffic and income that the current model is creating amongst us right now. That’s the problem with these companies, they all follow the same business model in the end greed.
Why is society sucked into television? No one needs shows, to be happy or relax. There are other ways to unwind. It’s a very strange and weird world, the world of marketing and the entertainment industry. One way the the devil entices mankind is through the imagination. See how its filled with disgusting ads, half naked women, sex, violence, drugs,money, strange drinks and unusual polls that seem to come out of nowhere. I have used hulu many times. But I challenge you to be honest and look for the truth. Why do they feel they need to charge? Are the creators and distributors suffering because they aren’t getting paid? It seems plausible, to say the creators have the right. You can apply this reasoning to anything this is what political correctness is. Look at the majority of negative feedback just by the announcement, that they MAY start charging! It is an incredibly bold move on hulu’s part. In the end, hulu, just like any fad, will die out. It will leave as quickly as it came.
OMG! DONT MAKE ME PAY MONEY TO WATCH VIDEOS ON HULU! CUZ I WILL NOT!!
OMG! DOT MAKE ME PAY TO WATCH VIDEOS ON HULU< CUZ I WONT!
I don’t have cable and I don’t have an ABC or PBS station in my area. I have actually discovered several shows via Hulu that I have now purchased on DVD. I’ve also rediscovered some shows I loved in the past and have bought some of them on DVD as well. Without Hulu to preview/discover these shows, I would never have purchased them on DVD. So, since I won’t be buying any lame Hulu subscription, the networks are losing not only advertising revenue from my not watching Hulu anymore, they are also losing potential DVD sales for shows I can’t receive and will now never watch in the first place. I will continue to watch those episodes of current shows Hulu says they will continue to broadcast without a subscription fee, but the rest of their content will cease to exist for me when the old episodes disappear behind their subscription wall.
So dumb – on top of all the content being free through streaming video (never been able to figure out if it’s illegal or not to watch it, but don’t care about the issue a whole lot anyway) – most of the tv networks have this content for free anyway! And netflix subscribers already have the ability to watch a lot of classic tv for free there. So not sure what they want to charge for… Dumb dumb dumb.
I think that in the right setting, this can be a good move. Netflix charges 9.95 for online viewing and one dvd per month. Now, if they charge the same thing, they need to have the netflix library as a whole plus much more to make the value of 9.95 per subscriber per month and most of all, COMMERCIAL FREE.
People can find most of this content for free legal or not, but that is going to die down with time as the law get stricter and the companies start to enforce those laws.
However, perhaps the biggest loser of all would be Hulu and Netflix, if cable providers want to keep users paying for television and we are sure they do, cable companies should offer for for free or 4.99 per month all series access to all shows shown on all channels that a customer is paying for. This would ensure customer loyalty to cable televisions and although it would threaten netflix and hulu, we are about innovation and money not about making sure that another company survives.
yeah… just watch them charge us for the very last episode of Lost. That would be exactly like News Corp.
I love the comment about HULU wanting to deliver the content “in a way where they will appreciate the value”. In other words they aren’t content with getting money from advertisers alone and want to see if they can milk some money out of the customers too, but they want to make it seem like they are doing you a favor by helping you to appreciate what they are providing.
Hulu is NEVER going to charge guys. know how i know? i ASKED them. quit listening to 3rd parties and just ask them. They hve NO plans to charge!!
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