Friday, March 14, 2008

News: Time to Hulu

Its slogan is: Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.

Hulu.com, a free online video service, offers free streams of hit TV shows, movies, sports highlights and clips from more than 50 providers, including FOX, NBC Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Sony Pictures Television.

New content partnerships include Warner Bros. Television Group, Lionsgate, NBA, and the NHL.

New content additions to Hulu's library will include feature films like "The Usual Suspects" and Ice Age; shows like Dirt, The Incredible Hulk, Babylon 5, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Dick Van Dyke Show; nightly highlights, top plays and full-length games from the NBA and the NHL; and popular made-for-web programming such as Prom Queen and Onion News Network.

Hulu.com has the largest selections of legal, free videos from more than 50 top broadcast networks, cable networks, movie studios and web-centric content providers.

Hulu's library offers full-length episodes from more than 250 TV series, from current hits like The Simpsons, The Office and Prison Break to classics like Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Miami Vice.

In addition, Hulu offers 100 full-length feature films, such as "The Big Lebowski," "Me, Myself & Irene," "Some Like It Hot," "Mulholland Drive" and "Three Amigos!"

Hulu also provides short clips from 150 more TV series like Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, as well as 50 additional films such as "Napoleon Dynamite," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Die Hard," "Vertigo," and "The Mummy."

Before hulu.com debuted Wednesday, more than 5 million viewers have watched videos in the past 30 days via Hulu.com or its extensive distribution network.

This network includes Hulu's partner sites (AOL, Comcast's Fancast.com, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo!) and other Web sites where users have embedded Hulu videos.

Hulu was founded in March, 2007 by NBC Universal and News Corp and is operated independently by a management teams in Los Angeles, New York, and Beijing.

You have to sign up for a free account it you want to watch movies.

And you have to watch a small number of commercials that run during the shows you watch.

That's how the site's operators, NBC Universal and News Corp. make their money.

You cannot download any of the content.

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