PlayOn
If you like Hulu and you have a modern console (PS3, 360, or WII) PlayOn is about the coolest thing I've found in a long time. You download it, run it on a pc that's on the same network as your console, and poof, a PlayOn channel appears on your console (under Video on a PS3, under Video Library on an XBox 360, by putting playon.tv in the internet channel address bar on a WII).
The playOn channel lets you access all of Hulu, YouTube, your NetFlix account, your Amazon VOD library, and more. PlayOn is free for 14 days; after that it's $39.99. This is a one time payment. There are no subscription fees. There are also piles of unofficial plugins that add access to other streaming video sources like Cartoon Network, Food Network, etc.
We have a PS3 remote since our PS3 is our primary DVD/BlueRay player. Last night, we watched a Dollhouse episode our DVR ate. We showed Ethan, who's recently become a huge Neil Patrick Harris fan and has never heard of Doogie Howser, the pilot of Doogie. We watched several episodes of Arrested Development we'd been wanting to rewatch since our Season 1 DVD vanished. We watched both episodes of Modern Family, and then Casey watched Buck Rogers for hours on end.
My friends Jen and Tim are always saying "what could you want to watch that isn't on Hulu?" whenever people complain about cable and sattelite, which they've stopped using. I've never enjoyed watching TV on the computer and connecting my laptop to the TV prevents me from working on said laptop WITH the TV. With this easy, instant way to access Hulu and Netflix from the TV, I can finally see what Jen and Tim are saying.
The playOn channel lets you access all of Hulu, YouTube, your NetFlix account, your Amazon VOD library, and more. PlayOn is free for 14 days; after that it's $39.99. This is a one time payment. There are no subscription fees. There are also piles of unofficial plugins that add access to other streaming video sources like Cartoon Network, Food Network, etc.
We have a PS3 remote since our PS3 is our primary DVD/BlueRay player. Last night, we watched a Dollhouse episode our DVR ate. We showed Ethan, who's recently become a huge Neil Patrick Harris fan and has never heard of Doogie Howser, the pilot of Doogie. We watched several episodes of Arrested Development we'd been wanting to rewatch since our Season 1 DVD vanished. We watched both episodes of Modern Family, and then Casey watched Buck Rogers for hours on end.
My friends Jen and Tim are always saying "what could you want to watch that isn't on Hulu?" whenever people complain about cable and sattelite, which they've stopped using. I've never enjoyed watching TV on the computer and connecting my laptop to the TV prevents me from working on said laptop WITH the TV. With this easy, instant way to access Hulu and Netflix from the TV, I can finally see what Jen and Tim are saying.