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Hulu's not foolish enough to just toss a paywall over their current service -- they're providing something that's available for free from too many legal and illegal sources.

The subscription service is going to be about extras -- extra content, extra viewing windows, extra devices. I riffed on four ways Hulu can make money without pissing off its users:

http://ironylovescompany.posterous.com/how-hulu-could-make-money-and-not-piss-off-it
Hulu's not foolish enough to simply build a paywall around their existing product and think people will pay for it.

Here are four ways Hulu could start charging for content and not piss off its users -- more content, bigger viewing windows, device integration, and sports/live events.

Bottom line: It's about adding extras, not charging for what you can get for free.
Um, what mlody11 said. ATSC doesn't support 1080p/60, so "1080p broadcast" as the headline implies is not in the cards.

This could be used to send 1080p/60 over cable/fiber lines, but there is no broadcast spec in North America that uses h.264, so any broadcaster who tries would be violating their FCC license.
Sigh. I could care less about YouTube on my TV. Partner with Hulu and I'll get interested.

PlayOn's on-the-fly transcoding really takes a toll on image quality, so the door's wide open for someone to do it the right way.
Hulu, Hulu, Hulu.

That's the only thing that's keeping me from pulling the trigger on a box like this. Can't someone bake in a real web browser with Flash? I mean, if it can do YouTube XL, it's clearly capable of doing Hulu as well.
Oooh. This actually looks tempting, assuming it's quiet.

From what I can tell, the Atom/Ion boxes aren't happy with full-screen YouTube/Hulu videos. This should have plenty of oomph for that.

The big question is the X4500 -- if it's up for 1080p videos, $500 is pretty good.
Looks lovely. Maybe I'll take two. But that would be greedy. One will do fine.
Yay contests. Yay free stuff. Boo recession.

Nice looking little soundbar, btw. Passes the Wife test for the bedroom.
Yes, assuming, of course, it can view Hulu.
The problem is that Flash doesn't use your graphics card for video acceleration. Until then, 1080p (and even a lot of 720p) video just won't work well unless you've got a beefy processor that's not doing anything else at the time.

What's strange is figuring out why CBS would go with Flash for 1080p video, when Silverlight 3 supports GPU video decoding.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a pair of quality headphones that aren't seemingly made of glass. I'm an avid BMXer which causes me to frequently bash on any type of technology that joins me for my daily riding. I've been through the higher quality headsets in the Skullcandy line as these are supposed to be built for "abuse," which is laughable. I cant wear earbuds or canal buds, as my large ears seem to have a repelling property upon anything that sits in them. Wired or Bluetooth doesn't really matter, but I need something that can hold up to taking a few hits every now and again. I'm trying to keep 'em under $150. Thanks!"

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