This whole cat and mouse game with people who watch Hulu on TV is going to end at some point. Pretty much every modern laptop can be hooked up to every modern TV with the right cable, and there's usually a way to hook them up even if they don't both have DVI/HDMI. So what, ultimately, does blocking the PS3 achieve?
I know why Hulu has a "no TVs" policy, and it makes sense given their content owners cannot legally license the content primarily for on-TV viewing, but there's a difference between not actively assisting people with putting Hulu on TV, and trying to prevent it from happening. The latter is an impossibility, and just creates bad feeling. The content owners need to cut Hulu some slack and stop demanding they go to these lengths.
It's not as if the PS3 doesn't have, *cough*, "alternative" ways of getting the same damned content on it, in ways where the content owners, networks, and affiliates, don't see a single penny. Part of the reason for Hulu is to undermine those channels, right? Why force people to use them?
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This whole cat and mouse game with people who watch Hulu on TV is going to end at some point. Pretty much every modern laptop can be hooked up to every modern TV with the right cable, and there's usually a way to hook them up even if they don't both have DVI/HDMI. So what, ultimately, does blocking the PS3 achieve?
I know why Hulu has a "no TVs" policy, and it makes sense given their content owners cannot legally license the content primarily for on-TV viewing, but there's a difference between not actively assisting people with putting Hulu on TV, and trying to prevent it from happening. The latter is an impossibility, and just creates bad feeling. The content owners need to cut Hulu some slack and stop demanding they go to these lengths.
It's not as if the PS3 doesn't have, *cough*, "alternative" ways of getting the same damned content on it, in ways where the content owners, networks, and affiliates, don't see a single penny. Part of the reason for Hulu is to undermine those channels, right? Why force people to use them?