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Hulu confirms Hulu Plus $9.99 monthly subscription. An Android app is probably on the way
June 29, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka
Android News, Rumors
Hulu spends a great deal of time blocking workarounds that allow people to watch Hulu on Android or mobile devices. That may not be an issue much longer if you’re willing to spend $9.99 a month to watch your favorite shows.
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has officially announced Hulu Plus, an invitation-only subscription service that will allow fans to watch content outside of Hulu.com. By singing-up for the $9.99 monthly plan, Hulu will offer streaming of all episodes of a current season and the entire catalogue of popular shows like X-Files (sci-fi legend) and Arrested Development (woefully under-appreciated).
At the moment, only Samsung Blu-Ray player, select Samsung app-capable televisions, and iPhone/iPad owners will be able to use the Hulu app. However, we can speculate that it’s likely to arrive on Android given previous search results revealed that Hulu is working on Android, and the following statements by Kilar:
This is just the first step in our mission to bring you TV wherever you are. We are already hard at work on porting Hulu Plus to other devices and platforms, with PlayStation 3 coming soon. But that’s a story for another day.
Considering the rise of Android phones and potential flurry of tablets and Google TV, Android is an obvious choice for being one of the next platforms to offer Hulu Plus?
Non-U.S. readers don’t have to ignore this message completely. Though Hulu is currently a U.S.-only service, it’s working on operating in more countries. There’s a mountain of licensing and financing deals that need to take place for that to happen, but Hulu hasn’t forgotten about you.
YOU MUST REQUEST AN INVITE IN ORDER TO SIGN-UP FOR HULU PLUS. REQUEST ONE AT THIS LINK.
When you sign up for hulu plus, hulu asks you if you own an android device. Hopefully that's another sign that we'll be getting it soon.
Arrested Development (woefully under-appreciated). +1 rep
We already pay $30/mo for the DATA plan on Verizon service. Adding another $10 for an app? Ridiculous in my opinion.
This is fucking stupid. Why is it that these free services online are going to charge for us to use them on our android devices? So stupid that they want to charge
I just got my hulu plus invite. It's better than expected! No Joke. I am in the same boat as most you tho, and paying $10 to watch my fav shows that 10yrs ago I would have just recorded for free w my VCR, is B.S.! I had a thought that I could definitly go w/out my personally favorite entertainment. It might be a bit of a test, but also, if many others followed the idea those money hungry bastards would fall faster than Communism. Remember when your grandparents used that weird word called "boycotting"?
I am loving Hulu Plus. Honnestly, I welcome the opportunity to pay $9.99 per month for all the TV shows I can watch, plus a few decent movies, and very limited commercials every now and again. Beats the hell out of the $120 I was paying for Digital cable and DVR, without access to older content that I hadn't recorded and with several minutes of commercials every few minutes of show. But that's just me. Some people would rather pay their cable company $120 for tons of ad content and very few channels instead of Hulu for $10 with lots of content being added all the time.
You welcome a chance to pay more money? Satellite with DVR is only $40 and that's 1080i resolution. I'm sorry but that's just a poor choice. Hulu can do what they want but they will make more when they realize they can tell their ad customers they reach a millions mobile customers as well. Some people just don't want to make any more money and some people welcome new bills. I'm just not either of those groups.
For those of you griping about the 10 dollar fee on top of your phone bill or whatever, your probably looking at Hulu as an addition to your current TV service, and your right, that would be silly. But scrap what your paying right now for tv, pay 10 a month, and get on demand programing on your tv, computer, and portable devices. Any episode you want, any time. And as time goes on, this will be the go to method for tv, so more and more networks will be on bored, movies too.
So dont think of it as an addition to a your current “watch what we tell you to watch” tv service, think of it as a stand alone “watch what you want to watch when and where you want to watch it” service.
I have hulu plus and like it. But it will never get me to drop cable/satellite because of live sports. I can’t get my football or baseball anywhere else. Sure MLB.tv but no local team and no football service. Hulu plus still needs to add more stations and shows, no CBS or NBC and quite a few others. I want NCIS and Monk.
$10/month and a couple of years offsets the cost of Slingbox HD. Adios HULU
so if you pay you'd *still* get commercials? that's stupid