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Jereel Hunter on 01 July 2010
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Ryudo said:
Jereel Hunter said:
BMaker11 said:

Why should you pay $10 period? I could go to Hulu right now, and watch all those things (current seasons and past seasons) right now for free. 

Only thing for Hulu should be an internet connection, like it is now (thus making it stupid to block it on the PS3). I don't mind a 15 second advert every 10 minutes


Because television shows are very expensive to make? Hulu plus is going to add more content for paid subscribers than the free site... and honestly, the site is amazing, it should cost money. Do I like it being free? Of course. But there's a reason a couple of my favorite shows died even though lots of people watched it on Hulu. Hulu generates almost no revenue compared to other sources - not enough to help keep the shows you watch on the air, anyway. It's business model requires some kind of payment. On demand viewing with a fraction of the commercials of a TV broadcast? There will be a price, it's unavoidable

Ever heard of Advertisments? Keeps things free. You can check bigger Podcast networks like twit.tv or Revision3 as proof. Also before cable network tv ran for decades on ads.

Keeps things free, but most ad based things online are relatively low budget. They aren't providing an economical backbone to tens billions of dollars in programming. You have to look at the big picture. Hulu is growing by leaps and bounds, and is canibalizing viewers from the TV viewership. So it's taking viewers from an episode which plays 4-6 commercials per break and giving them just 1-2. And it's taking viewers from a service (cable/direct tv, etc) that costs viewers a big chunk of change, and giving it to them for free. (Or $10/month)  The fact is, less adds and no cable fees mean that as Hulu gains traction, this is just massive amounts of revenue lost. It needs to be regained somewhere.

Now, there's a problem with ads nowadays. People hate and avoid ads. It takes so many ads nowadays to pay for shows that people either have time to get up and do things around the house and not watch them, or, many people (like me) would RATHER pay a piddling sum like $10/month to not waste time on commercials. (even with my cable, I watch nothing live... I pay for DVR so I can fast forward commercials)

Do I want to take 60 minutes to watch every 43 minute episode on Hulu? Or do I want to take 47? I guess it depends on how valuable your time is, and how much TV you watch, but if I can save 13 minutes (over 20%) of my time per episode, it's worth the money to me.