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[IrishNinja]

well, that kinda sucks...been meaning to find an ap/program for hulu that blanks out adds like blockify does for spotify

Does Hulu still have ads even if you have a paid subscription?

sure does, and worse yet, some networks are lousy with em - the few eps they have of Constantine, i swear there was like 4 minutes of ads. fuckin' terrible, and my roommate's paying for that experience too

You want something to complain about with Hulu? Try how some shows only keep a certain number of episodes on the services at a time, so if you don't watch for a few weeks you could be fucked as episodes drop off.

oh yeah, this here's some bigger bullshit too, good call

wanna get into Hannibal? good luck, here's the last 3 eps of the last season or so. again if that was for free users only i guess i'd understand, but it's garabe for paid

 

[WillyFive]

Only in price.

Which is enough to kill cable.

 

[TheFurizzlyBear]

Man I get not liking something but some people act like ads took their dog outside, fed it lit dynamite, strapped them to a chair and made them watch the results.

 

[NullPointer]

So does this mean I can't purchase individual episodes of these shows to stream on Amazon?

I've gone that route with Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul.

 

[Robot Pants]

Breaking Bad is over and Mad Men is ending so this doesn't matter.

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[Marty Chinn]

Hulu ads = 30 - 90 seconds tops

Cable Commercial Break = 3 - 5 minutes


Everyone complaining about Hulu ads must enjoy waiting a year for their shows to come on Netflix, or buying them separately on blu-ray. I will take Hulu's ad break over cable's endless onslaught any day.

You want something to complain about with Hulu? Try how some shows only keep a certain number of episodes on the services at a time, so if you don't watch for a few weeks you could be fucked as episodes drop off.

I'll take satellite over Hulu's forced commercials. I haven't watched a commercial in 15 years on satellite and I get to watch it as it airs.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

That is all kinds of fucked up for international folks because AMC and netflix was good for international viewers Hulu is USA only

 

[WillyFive]

.

But Breaking Bad is not over, the seventh season will air in 2016.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Time out. American Movie Classics has shows? Does no one honor their own name anymore?

 

[Oreoleo]

Yeah with Netflix/Hulu/Amazon basically splitting the major cable network rights, I think I'm going to stick with a standard provider and utilize their on-demand service. Sure I'll miss out on exclusives like Orange is the new Black and Community, but at least I'll get ALL the cable networks on one platform.

The new season of Community is on Yahoo Screen which is a free service. No excuses.

 

[brianjones]

Yeah with Netflix/Hulu/Amazon basically splitting the major cable network rights, I think I'm going to stick with a standard provider and utilize their on-demand service. Sure I'll miss out on exclusives like Orange is the new Black and Community, but at least I'll get ALL the cable networks on one platform.

yep, cable is back y'all

hope you have some duct tape for those cut chords

 

[NullPointer]

So this doesn't apply to existing shows like Better Call Saul? Only the new stuff from Fear The Walking Dead on? Good.

Hulu's ads for paying subscribers means I'll never go anywhere near it.

 

[samn]

That is all kinds of fucked up for international folks because AMC and netflix was good for international viewers Hulu is USA only

AMC doesn't sell Better Call Saul internationally to Netflix - Sony does.

 

[neoism]

In which AMC seriously underestimates how incredibly important Netflix was to the success of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead

Yup I watched all seasons of both in like 3 weeks it was fucking awesome...I even have AMC and was only able to record 10 episodes of the 5th season of TWD.. but now they wouldn't fucking show anymore for some reason so now I just had it on my DVR... really dont understand why they dont show there most popular show one or two episodes everyday... :/ fucking DISH.... fucking cable... Will never get Hulu if they still show commercials...

 

[rhino4evr]

Considering you can get Hulu for free by using Bing rewards and a smartphone app to automate your daily searches, everyone (in the US) should get Hulu.

Commercials are shorter than normal TV channels, and now that I'm not paying for it, I don't mind them so much.

Commercials are shorter "for now". The "golden age" if streaming services will eventually come to an end. Do you remember when you didn't have to watch an ad everytime you watched something on YouTube?

With the realization that more and more people are turning to streaming services , and less to network or cable TV, expect the amount of ads and commercials to keep increasing until
There is literally no difference between the two. Money talks

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

When does this start. I've been dying to watch the final season of Mad Men on the big screen at home, without needing to drop $100 on an Apple TV to do it.

 

[NullPointer]

Commercials are shorter "for now".

Exactly. Ads only multiply, in numbers, length and frequency. It never goes the other direction.

 

[Ex:2]

I'd have never watched Walking Dead or Breaking Bad had it not been for Netflix.

Same here, I won't be getting Hulu either.

 

[Husker86]

Commercials are shorter "for now". The "golden age" if streaming services will eventually come to an end. Do you remember when you didn't have to watch an ad everytime you watched something on YouTube?

With the realization that more and more people are turning to streaming services , and less to network or cable TV, expect the amount of ads and commercials to keep increasing until
There is literally no difference between the two. Money talks

And? I'm not going to refuse to watch shows I like in a sort of protest and hope it changes. It's cheaper than cable/satellite; that's all I really wanted out of my content provider. It's either more ads or more expensive.

 

[LyleLanley]

Isn't that sort of the inevitability of cord cutting? A sort of ala carte streaming syndication model where you pick and choose what services you want. And of course that wouldn't be just one service, but multiple services competing against each other.

I think the dream is a small fee for every channel you want. As it is now it's $8 a month for these big bundles of shows and movies most of which is still garbage. It's the same problem as cable in that I'm paying for crap I don't want but at least it's cheaper I guess.

 

[Marty Chinn]

I think the dream is a small fee for every channel you want. As it is now it's $8 a month for these big bundles of shows and movies most of which is still garbage. It's the same problem as cable in that I'm paying for crap I don't want but at least it's cheaper I guess.

You can have exactly what you want by buying individual episodes or whole seasons of the shows you want to watch.

 

[Oreoleo]

Commercials are shorter "for now". The "golden age" if streaming services will eventually come to an end. Do you remember when you didn't have to watch an ad everytime you watched something on YouTube?

With the realization that more and more people are turning to streaming services , and less to network or cable TV, expect the amount of ads and commercials to keep increasing until
There is literally no difference between the two. Money talks

The thing is, commercials are not the reason people are cord cutting. It's the price. I can pay ~$60 or more a month for cable TV or I can pay something like $17 a month for Netflix+Hulu and deal with the 3 30 second commercial breaks on the two or three currently airing shows that I catch weekly on Hulu. For me, the choice is obvious.

 

[LyleLanley]

You can have exactly what you want by buying individual episodes or whole seasons of the shows you want to watch.

Well yeah, but a whole season of most shows costs more than a month of Netflix and Hulu put together.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Well yeah, but a whole season of most shows costs more than a month of Netflix and Hulu put together.

Well ya, because you're buying things in pieces rather than in a group purchase. The reason Netflix or Hulu can offer what they do is because everyone pays for the show whether they watch it or not. So you can either deal with paying for stuff you don't want, or you can pay more.

 

[Surface of Me]

DAMN, Hulu going HAM!!

Exclusive rights to all(ish) future:

FX
AMC
SundanceTV
IFC
WeTV
BBC America
TBS
TNT
Adult Swim
Cartoon Network

series, as well as the exclusive rights to Seinfeld and Empire.

That's mighty impressive.

Does this mean these channel's websites will no longer stream their shit? If so I'd be upset cause I visit FXNetworks and AS stuff frequently.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Does this mean these channel's websites will no longer stream their shit? If so I'd be upset cause I visit FXNetworks and AS stuff frequently.

I'm not sure. I wouldn't think so though.

 

[UrokeJoe]

Cable making the fight.

 

[Devil Theory]

I just refuse to use Hulu.

 

[Talon]

In which AMC seriously underestimates how incredibly important Netflix was to the success of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead

This.

 

[UrokeJoe]

This.

Truly.

 

[robochimp]

So does this mean I can't purchase individual episodes of these shows to stream on Amazon?

I've gone that route with Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul.

I don't think they count that as being on a streaming service. That's more like buying the DVD digitally.

 

[Carnby]

Does this mean that I can't even purchase new episodes on Amazon?

edit: I see that someone else asked this question. If these means I can still purchase new episodes, then I'm fine with this.

 

[DrSlek]

Exclusivity deals are cancer.

 

[shink]

Hopefully this is only for US, so potentially I could watch it from another Netflix region.

 

[Moza]

I'm fine with Netflix choosing to spend its money on Original programming rather than just spending all their cash on snagging streaming rights to current/past shows. Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, Bloodline and Daredevil are some of my favourite shows so I'm not going to whine about their direction.

 

[Man God]

My issue with Hulu isn't just that paying for it offers no relief from commercials, though that's bad.

It's that when it freezes, which is often, it ALWAYS DOES SO ON A COMMERCIAL. Which you then have to watch again when it reloads.

 

[Xyrmellon]

So Im basically going to be paying Netflix for the Marvel shows at this point. I wonder how many others will keep it just for these.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I'm a little surprised people are complaining about Hulu ads. I'd rather deal with 90 seconds of ads over an hour of programming with the ability to watch the program the next day, over waiting 6 months to a year for Netflix to get it.

The first time I subscribed to Hulu, I wasn't a big fan and canceled my subscription. But the selection of shows is way better now, and it's my main method of watching shows like The Flash, Arrow, iZombie, etc. Plus their anime selection is pretty nice.

Usually I get on my phone during the ads, and I rarely even have the time to go to a website before the ad is over. They aren't like 5 minute ads like on regular tv. I don't think I've ever had an ad break over 90 seconds...

 

[Husker86]

My issue with Hulu isn't just that paying for it offers no relief from commercials, though that's bad.

It's that when it freezes, which is often, it ALWAYS DOES SO ON A COMMERCIAL. Which you then have to watch again when it reloads.

While it doesn't happen "often" for me, having to reload a video and watch the commercial I should have just watched again does suck.

This only happens in the browser for me, though. I can't remember ever experiencing it through Chromecast, etc.

 

[Man God]

While it doesn't happen "often" for me, having to reload a video and watch the commercial I should have just watched again does suck.

This only happens in the browser for me, though. I can't remember ever experiencing it through Chromecast, etc.

Happens to me often on the apps, maybe once every ten episodes on PC.

 

[Terrell]

I'm not really sure why yalls are against ads so much?

You mean the ads NO ONE watches anymore thanks to DVRs? Hulu featuring ads that you can't skip is like taking us back to the stone ages.

You can have exactly what you want by buying individual episodes or whole seasons of the shows you want to watch.

Looks like our last discussion on this made an impression. Cool.

Well yeah, but a whole season of most shows costs more than a month of Netflix and Hulu put together.

Well ya, because you're buying things in pieces rather than in a group purchase. The reason Netflix or Hulu can offer what they do is because everyone pays for the show whether they watch it or not. So you can either deal with paying for stuff you don't want, or you can pay more.

Marty is correct, but there's also the fact that you're...

- not getting the complete selection of available television programming, live or otherwise, unless you subscribe to ALL of them

- paying $192 a year for 2 services that don't supplement cable as well as people think they do, unless they enjoy being a year behind in certain TV shows they watch and avoid internet discussions about them like the plague

- not able to watch it later at your leisure when you end up powering through a series at the 11th hour because it's going to be (inevitably) pulled from the service

- paying for a service and still getting TV via (unskippable) advertisements, the business model that is currently FAILING in traditional cable and has caused the untimely death of many TV series (which re-inforces my belief that Netflix/Hulu/etc. are the same shit as cable but with more restrictions in Millennial-friendly wrapping)

... among other things.

 

[border]

You mean the ads NO ONE watches anymore thanks to DVRs? Hulu featuring ads that you can't skip is like taking us back to the stone ages.

This is kinda like saying "Why should I listen to all those ads on Spotify/Pandora when I can just download all the music I want off of torrents?" Legally it's different I suppose yes, but in both ways you're subverting the entire business model of an industry and expecting that subversion to be the standard.

 

[Robot Pants]

This is kinda like saying "Why should I listen to all those ads on Spotify/Pandora when I can just download all the music I want off of torrents?" Legally it's different I suppose yes, but in both ways you're subverting the entire business model of an industry and expecting that subversion to be the standard.

How is that at all the same? The cable companies gives you the DVR box.

 

[Vibranium]

And of course they're still not available in Canada or internationally. Thanks for nothing Hulu.

Amazon Prime and Hulu really should expand out here.

 

[Terrell]

This is kinda like saying "Why should I listen to all those ads on Spotify/Pandora when I can just download all the music I want off of torrents?" Legally it's different I suppose yes, but in both ways you're subverting the entire business model of an industry and expecting that subversion to be the standard.

Except there are are legal ad-free methods that don't involve cable, too. So.... yeah.... not sure why you immediately jumped to torrenting there.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I'm a little surprised people are complaining about Hulu ads. I'd rather deal with 90 seconds of ads over an hour of programming with the ability to watch the program the next day, over waiting 6 months to a year for Netflix to get it.

The first time I subscribed to Hulu, I wasn't a big fan and canceled my subscription. But the selection of shows is way better now, and it's my main method of watching shows like The Flash, Arrow, iZombie, etc. Plus their anime selection is pretty nice.

Usually I get on my phone during the ads, and I rarely even have the time to go to a website before the ad is over. They aren't like 5 minute ads like on regular tv. I don't think I've ever had an ad break over 90 seconds...

The Hulu hate (and AMC hate and...) is bizarre and completely overblown.

Ads are definitely a bummer, but Hulu's aren't even in the same stratosphere as the ones that you get when you watch a show live.

 

[toneroni]

Ugh this sucks. No 4k and commercials. Don't want to subscribe to Hulu since I already have Amazon and Netflix

 

[alterno69]

How do the ads work? Just like on network tv ot do they run in between episodes? If it's just like regular TV i'm never subscribing.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

How do the ads work? Just like on network tv ot do they run in between episodes? If it's just like regular TV i'm never subscribing.

Like on network TV. There might be 3 or 4 ad breaks during a 40 minute show. Honestly, the most common ads for me are the Hulu promotion ads that talk about someone and their favorite show. Those are usually like 20-30 seconds and then its back to the show. I've honestly stopped even noticing them.

 

[Gambit 1138]

When is Better Call Saul going to start streaming and on what app?