{"id":2312,"date":"2011-04-28T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2011-04-28T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:49:35","slug":"hulu-plus-is-my-savior-from-cable-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/hulu-plus-is-my-savior-from-cable-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Hulu Plus is my Savior from Cable TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or so I&#8217;m hoping.<\/p>\n<p>Hulu comes to Xbox:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hulu Plus on Xbox LIVE Key Features:<br \/>\n\u00b7 More TV from Hulu Plus, Together with Xbox LIVE. With the Hulu Plus subscription service on Xbox LIVE, instantly watch your favorite TV shows from ABC, Comedy Central, FOX, NBC, MTV, and more on the biggest screen in the house, in HD and controller-free.<br \/>\n\u00b7<br \/>\n\u00b7 Always Something New to Watch. Hulu Plus offers hit TV shows and classic movies anytime in HD. Instantly stream any current season episode of top shows like Modern Family, 30 Rock, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and many others. Catch up on full back seasons on series including Lost, Chapelle&#8217;s Show, and Battlestar Galactica, or explore hundreds of acclaimed movies from The Criterion Collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 TV. Movies. Hits. Classics. All in One Place. Stream episodes from many of TV&#8217;s greatest shows, enjoy full current seasons of your favorite shows, catch up on past seasons or explore series you missed. With one seamless subscription, watch all of your favorite entertainment on Xbox LIVE and all Hulu Plus supported devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Quality Streaming on the Biggest Screen in the Home. Xbox LIVE automatically detects your bandwidth connection, and adjust on the fly to give you the best playback experience available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Your Voice Becomes the Remote Control with Kinect. You&#8217;ll be able to play, pause, fast forward and rewind the movie or TV show you are watching with voice or gesture commands. You&#8217;ll also be able to select movies and TV shows recommended for you by Hulu through the Kinect Hub.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I asked my landlord to cancel my cable on May 1st. He&#8217;s going to cancel an $80 a month service including a DVR and a few HD channels with movies. I haven&#8217;t used my cable aside from when a few select shows appear (The office, it&#8217;s always sunny, the daily show, conan O&#8217;brien, etc). My TV choices are pretty random and all\u00a0available\u00a0on the web or on Hulu.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, this is why I bought my Boxee Box last October. It was supposed to bring Hulu &amp; Netflix to my\u00a0television\u00a0and it has Flash so South Park &amp; Late-Night TV that&#8217;s only available via the browser (not on Hulu) could be watched as well.<\/p>\n<p>Hulu never came to Boxee and I&#8217;m still pissed about that.<\/p>\n<p>Boxee is also an extremely unreliable system. It crashes every 5 hours as if it is running out of memory or something. I honestly don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. The AppleTV 2 was a purchase I avoided making from when it was released in October to just this March. I&#8217;m bummed that I wanted so long to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>AppleTV is where I spend nearly 100% of my time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Movies &amp; Music from iTunes<\/li>\n<li>Netflix<\/li>\n<li>MLB.TV<\/li>\n<li>NBA.TV<\/li>\n<li>Renting Movies<\/li>\n<li>Airplaying content from my iPad \/ iPhone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t booted up the Boxee box in 3 weeks and that was to watch a Flash video from a web browser with some friends. The Boxee is close to being eBayed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bummed that Hulu Plus isn&#8217;t on AppleTV. Luckily, it&#8217;s coming to Xbox tomorrow and I&#8217;m so thrilled. For $7.99 for Hulu + $7.99 for Netflix, I have content on my iOS devices and home theatre system and I will no longer need cable. I&#8217;m not happy about booting up the Xbox when I want to watch TV but I&#8217;ll get over it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll talk more about this later but, if you have been holding out ditching cable and don&#8217;t have a Boxee, Sony Blu-ray player, Samsung TV, AppleTV or other device, Hulu may be what you need. Go to their site and make sure you like the selection first and then cancel the cable because $7.99 is much cheaper than $80 and I&#8217;m going to use the money I saved to increase my home Internet speed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;or so I&#8217;m hoping. Hulu comes to Xbox: Hulu Plus on Xbox LIVE Key Features: \u00b7 More TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Bi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2680,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/why-im-cancelling-netflix\/","url_meta":{"origin":2312,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Why I&#8217;m Cancelling Netflix","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Netflix introduced a streaming product back in 2007\/2008 which seems like decades in Internet time. 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