I signed up to beta test Hulu.com, a website for watching television episodes. The site has a huge selection of shows, mostly network shows like Heroes, The Office, The Simpson’s and tons more. There’s even older shows, like The A-Team (my personal favorite) and WKRP in Cincinnati. You’ll get the normal, every so often lag that you get from other sites like YouTube, but I find if I pause it for a bit, or use the pop-out feature, I don’t get the lag-skip that absolutely drives me crazy when I watch online shows. Hulu is actually really cool, the video watching experience is nice – you can go full screen, or dim the lights, which dims down the area around the video. There are commercials, but I found I didn’t mind them, because Hulu added a countdown feature “your show will resume in 10, 9, 8…” It kind of made the commercial worth while sitting through. Create your own playlist, rate videos and even comment on them. There’s an embed feature also – which, we’ll see if it works below – if it does, enjoy an episode of the A-Team!
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