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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 612 Joined: 25 Dec 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1409 Joined: 17 Nov 2008     | I never got why companies thought it was a good idea to limit use of any product. I was two clicks from buying Prototype for PC when I found it had 5 installs via DRM. So I "yar matey'd" it instead. I'm not paying for something that's expensive, screws with my PC and furthermore limits how many times I can install it. DRM MAKES me want to pirate, it's ubserd to limit and expect me to pay the same price. I don't use Hulu so I can't comment on that much but I wanted to get the idea across that limiting your customers (like limited installs, malicious software that slows your PC down) just hurts sales, most people won't care to buy it and if they do want it, you think they're going to buy it?. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 612 Joined: 26 Apr 2009     | It doesn't bother me much. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 686 Joined: 3 Jul 2008    | If this alleged snub turns out to be true, I wonder if Sony has been in contact with Hulu? What with them sending unannounced charges in the direction of publishers for demo bandwidth, perhaps Sony has also requested money from Hulu to have access to the PS3 userbase. |
On the Record  Posts: 6226 Joined: 10 Mar 2008    |
That was old news, a few months ago. I hardly think that would matter a few months from now. Until we know more, it's Hulu's fault, and really, does it even matter what Sony possibly did to make this happen? An America-only service on the PS3's webbrowswer that nobody actively uses....I mean, so what? |
IT Director  Posts: 1549 Joined: 13 Jun 2002    |
One possible reason is that the media companies don't want access to Hulu to cannibalize video sales through the PS3 video store. I'm not interested enough to actually check, but if some of the same shows are (or will be) available, then it makes sense on some level to prevent their free service from competing with their video sales. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the same reason the Xbox 360/hulu connection remains a rumor. If it is real, and does release, I wouldn't be surprised if it also has some limitations that the web version doesn't.
Actually, one reason is that for many of these shows, European broadcast rights are owned by different, European companies. It's pretty common for publishing rights to be controlled by different companies in different regions, especially when you consider that releasing something in Europe tends to involve a lot of additional localization. The secondary reason is that hulu is run by American companies with established relationships with American advertisers, and those are the ads that they serve. They're not broadcasting video for charity, they're doing it for ad views, and if they can't easily sell the ads that you watch, they're far better off financially to not pay for the bandwidth to send you video. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1954 Joined: 31 Jan 2009    |
I only payed 400 and i got two controllers and MGS4. Thanks to the internet |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 84 Joined: 13 Jun 2008     | This is not the first time Hulu has blocked access to a particular viewing method for no intelligent reason. There has been a constant battle between hulu and boxee, for example. Hulu seems to think that if you play their content on a tv screen, you are violating copyright somehow. Since the ads are embedded in the video, and you can't skip them no matter where they are playing, it doesn't make sense that there is any difference between watching on a computer screen or a tv screen. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 470 Joined: 30 Sep 2008  | Maybe Sony will release a buyable add-on for Hulu. QUICK BUCK FIVE! *wa-psh* |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1806 Joined: 26 Mar 2009     |
I paid $500 and got 5 free BluRay movies. Paid $300 for my 360 and got two free games I never play, just as I hardly ever play my 360. Use my PS3 thousands of times more. If it wasn't for my roomate owning only a 360 and us linking our systems together, my 360 would have been a total waste of money. Just wish his 360 wasn't always broken. Oh well. Still beats owning the Wii, but I do have to have them all. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 102 Joined: 15 Apr 2009   |
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1797059 you must be very bad at finding torrents |
Muckraker Posts: 227 Joined: 25 Feb 2009    | I haven't even gone to the Hulu site, shows how much I give a damn, it's not good to go back to childhood favourites, you will soon realize how crap they were...unless it's Transformers G1. |
On the Record  Posts: 5950 Joined: 7 Mar 2008    |
yeah i'm going to blame hulu itself, simply because there's good evidence they've blocked other services connecting to them. look up their battle with boxee tho i do love how readily everyone likes to blame sony for all this but i guess there's no irresponsible hate towards sony for no reason |
Muckraker  Posts: 315 Joined: 23 Apr 2008 | Who cares besides the guys in the US? Noone. So snap. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 76 Joined: 1 Jul 2009   | well if PS3 users could pirate hulu somehow why couldnt they pirate other things? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2505 Joined: 6 Apr 2009   | Isn't the PS3 getting PlayTV soon anyway? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 651 Joined: 4 Mar 2009 | we don't get hulu in canada and blocking sony is probably to speed up hulu because sony 's browser is garbage as for not getting hulu in canada is fucking bullshit , but hey we can get porn lol even on ps3 |
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lol yes rly omg so serius
(to be honest I'm not much of a RPG or even RPG gamer...)