Hulu.com, the corporate YouTube competitor from NBC and Fox, opened to the public today; Anita Hamilton has time.com’s review. The gist, for those of you unfamiliar with it: the site archives hundreds of movies and TV episodes; you can watch them for free, with brief ads; and you can share and embed entire episodes or clips online.
I’ve been using Hulu on and off while it’s been in beta testing, and the quality of video has been a marked improvement over the streaming versions of shows at most network websites–even on my Time loaner laptop, which is basically a Texas Instruments calculator with an Etch-a-Sketch taped to it. My chief frustrations with the site has been the scattershot depth of the library: I’ve wished for more recent seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (so I could embed video for a post on the Once More With Feeling musical) and older seasons of King of the Hill. But if my main complaint is that I want more, that’s a pretty strong endorsement for now.
And really, what’s there to gripe about when I can now, entirely legally, post this?: