Comments on: Hulu Requests Removal From Boxee

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes. Hunching over a PC is exactly as attractive as sitting on the couch watching TV. That’ll work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen,

That’s very true but I was using Boxee as a digital media center. I made a linux box for it with a nice video card and put it beside my large LCD TV and I streamed Hulu.

Now I’ll just use a browser and Boxee will be uninstalled on Friday.

mike

By: Shawn Farner

Shawn Farner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, Hulu. Lame. I’m wondering what the purpose of this could be.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

oh that’s easy – the shows want control – and boxee scares them – i don’t use boxee but it seems to be all the rage these days

the thing is – the ads travel with hulu so you would think more streams = better but you knew this was coming –

By: tilll

tilll — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Boxee is really cool. Too bad you don’t have a Mac or Linux. ;D

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I know – everyday I wake up and hope when I hit the office a macintosh computer will be there.

By: tilll

tilll — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Which office?

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

our NYC hq

By: Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hellooooo Allen. Did Hulu pull from CBS’s TV.com also? (I’m sooo outa touch :). Was nice for a while to have one or two good TV video portals…..

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yep that was the big story this morning

By: Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Guess next Fox and NBC stop being ‘pals’ and we get ‘Hulu, the sequel’? The quality of some of the shows has improved enough to watch online and comfortably forget Tivo or DVR. Interesting that online the commercials don’t bother me as much ….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Crap :(

And I was planning on canceling cable because I can see it all online.

Boxee is pretty much useless to me now :(

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

but you can still see it all – just go to hulu.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Totally lame! We can only hope for Boxee to rise up and take over the world and have Hulu begging them to let them back in!

By: dean collins

dean collins — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks like i’m going to be ‘the lone voice of dissent’ here but i’m sorry i have to agree with Hulu’s position.

I’m not sure if you were on the yi-tan conference call 3 weeks ago but i raised these questions with Avner on this call at that time and the answer he gave us at the time was that “Boxee is like a browser we just deliver the content” – unfortunately thats not the case as i see it.

Boxee is repurposing content without regards to the original content licensor.

The analogy i used was it would be no different to recording FTA tv onto dvd’s and selling them down on canal street.

At the end of the day i think the next move is up to Boxee to go back and negotiate commercial terms that make sense for all partners involved.

One of the lessons i learned out of working with Akimbo is that when you put a ‘fair deal for all’ onto the table then everyone works to move things forward as a team. At the moment one of the Boxee team providers dont perceive the value in being part of this and it’s up to Avner to convince them otherwise.

(Actually, to be honest i think Hulu should be paying Boxee but thats a discussion for another time as well).

Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net