Hulu Plus - A Review

Netflix 2.0

So, like many other geeks, moms and humans all around the world I’m always looking for ways to save some money.  My husband and I have been loyal to our DirecTV for years now and really thought we would never trade it for anything.  Well, for us tech junkies something newer and shinier will always come along and tempt us.

Our current cable bill is $90 and some change after taxes.  That does not include internet.  It does include our nifty HD DVR, although we aren’t channel whores, the only extra channels we have are a few HD Discovery and Science type things.  To say the least, it’s very expensive and we are a one income family. 

So, when I heard about Hulu Plus I thought about it for a bit.  Occasionally when I would miss a show for one reason or another (even DVR’s make mistakes) I would end up on Hulu watching it.  It seemed like a really great concept.  My husband and I talked about it off and on, but like I said, we’re really attached to our DirecTV. 

Finally we ended up moving in with family for a temporary stay and put our DirecTV on hold.  They have no way for us to watch TV here really, so we thought we’d give Hulu Plus a try.  It streams to our PS3 and we were really excited about the possibility of saving so much money. 

I joined up tonight and decided to use my free week trial.  As I cycled through the shows available and saved things to my queue I became more and more excited.  This was looking really good and I thought we had made a great decision.

Then we loaded it up on our PS3 to watch the White Collar season premier.

It’s not available for streaming at this time.  We went down the list of all our shows that are new and they are all not available for streaming at this time.  So, we’d have to watch them on our laptops.

This is unacceptable for us.  The whole point is so we can enjoy awesome TV together on our huge TV.  Why have such a big TV with awesome speakers if we don’t watch stuff on it?

I guess what I don’t understand is this…  If the new stuff is only available online why would you ever pay for this service?  You can just as easily go to the website for the station and just watch it there.  Why pay $7.99?  I guess if you don’t have Netflix I might be able to understand, or maybe you have a great deal of disposable income, or maybe you like watching TV on your computer.

These are the only reasons you should consider getting Hulu Plus –

1.  You like watching TV on your computer and don’t like searching for shows at places like google.

2.  You like the selection of old shows available (it is very good).

3.  You have a grudge against Netflix

4.  You have $8 to throw away every month…  Hey didn’t anyone ever tell you that there are starving children in… well everywhere.

If you aren’t any of these don’t waste your time.  If you choose to ignore my advice, it’s okay everyone else does too, then at least do the free trial and make sure you like it.

Please read my follow up review here.

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