Hulu refreshes HD Gallery with 720p TV shows
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Hannah @ Aug 5th 2008 2:42PM
Hulu keeps getting better and better...First!!!
gamedude420 @ Aug 5th 2008 3:38PM
just imagine what it will be like ina year. i'm still waiting on them to add more wwe programming, like raw and smackdown they already have wwecw (i refuse to call it ecw, since its not really, unless you are a wrestling fan you will never understand that :) )
aaron @ Aug 5th 2008 2:56PM
pretty good quality for such a low bitrate..... although its not as apparent on the tv shows as it is on the sports. sports really need something in the 4.0 mbit range atleast.
i do hope this pushes other to upgrade to hd.... eagerly awaiting netflix to see what they do in terms of their bitrates.
gamedude420 @ Aug 5th 2008 3:03PM
I hope hulu upgrades everything to hd or atleast 480p they have some 360p stuff grrrr.
but i also wish even for the sd suff they can go for a higher bitrate.
roku will prob ad hulu in november. if so i'm saying bye bye cable . Upgrading internet , dropping cable tv. im getting netflix soon anyways
yanks86 @ Aug 5th 2008 3:36PM
Actually a ton of their stuff is 480p. I know I watched the first season of angel all in 480p. Nearly everything I have seen on their recently has had 480p available. Hopefully 720p will become as ubiquitous.
gamedude420 @ Aug 5th 2008 3:38PM
actually they have alot thats not available in 480P though. most stuff is atleast 480p though. im just saying everything else should be upgraded.
andyg8180 @ Aug 5th 2008 3:45PM
i would say, " i hope the 360 picks this up" but then they wouldnt have an audience to sell their TV shows to.... so :-(.... guess i'll still be hooking the lappy up to the TV for a wee bit longer...
But this is good news... cant wait for the new season of Its Always Sunny!
Galley @ Aug 5th 2008 4:21PM
This is one reason why I stopped paying for TV back in Jan.
Jerry Waldorf @ Aug 5th 2008 5:54PM
Even though the content may be available at 480p, 720p, or even 1080p. the framerate and compression that is used can really hurt the viewing experience. Providing 720p and then 1080p with the same compression and framerate you get on a bluray would make Hulu an even more compelling story. I think many people would be willing to queue up a show, and then come back at a later point to view it. We would wait for higher quality. And I am sure that they can figure out a way to force playing of the commercials so people can't skip past them.
Team Louish @ Aug 6th 2008 2:17AM
So when your at their site, you can put it in Full Screen, but its not the 720p version. It scales the smaller version. When you click the 720p popup, it opens in a new window at a full 1280x720 but then you can do it full screen. Lame.
Team Louish @ Aug 6th 2008 2:18AM
Ah... There is no button for it, but you can simply put the popup in full screen mode (F11) and the video will stretch...
squiggleslash @ Aug 6th 2008 8:57AM
Hulu really needs some way to allow a user to buffer an entire movie before viewing. Things like this are great, but even the 480p service stutters using my 1.5Mbps connection. Similar problems with Netflix are why I'm unlikely to buy the Roku box any time soon.
reallynotnick @ Aug 12th 2008 12:16AM
My 2.0ghz G5 iMac can't even handle 480p with this flash garbage encoding, why can't they just use H.264 as I can play 720p almost perfect when 480p hulu is unwatchable and yet the quality is worse then H.264.
I would love Hulu to be 720p and in H.264 with a set-top box then I could get rid of my cable.