http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/ Engadget Comments for Hulu to PlayStation 3 browsers: "This video is not available on your platform" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
it's a shame really, about 6 months ago hulu looked like it was on the cusp of revolutionizing the way we watch tv, or at least getting the wheels rolling. now, though, it's increasingly becoming inconsequential and mediocre (limited-and-getting-worse accessibility, almost no hd content anymore...)]]>Jun 27th 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
I know why Hulu has a "no TVs" policy, and it makes sense given their content owners cannot legally license the content primarily for on-TV viewing, but there's a difference between not actively assisting people with putting Hulu on TV, and trying to prevent it from happening. The latter is an impossibility, and just creates bad feeling. The content owners need to cut Hulu some slack and stop demanding they go to these lengths.

It's not as if the PS3 doesn't have, *cough*, "alternative" ways of getting the same damned content on it, in ways where the content owners, networks, and affiliates, don't see a single penny. Part of the reason for Hulu is to undermine those channels, right? Why force people to use them?]]>Jun 27th 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
I thought a half hour show used to have 1 commercial but I watched the Daily Show last night and there were 3.

Hulu commercials are already starting to cost more than regular TV commercials. Not being able to fast forward through the Hulu ones makes them worth more.]]>Jun 27th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
incoming: qualitative statement regarding sd vs hd - if you think the "low quality youtube videos" look decent when zoomed in, you are absolutely blind. disregarding the snake-oil remedy that is video upscaling, those low quality youtube videos don't even look good at their native resolution. i mean, the fact of the low quality (i.e. high compression, low resolution) of those videos has essentially infiltrated our collective unconscious.

in conclusion, your long winded comment makes absolutely no sense and has almost nothing to do with my comment. you look foolish and uninformed. also, do you not know how to reply?]]>Jun 28th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 27th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
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I don't know what you people are talking about. Hulu doesn't want to prevent your from watching it on TV, they want to prevent various software to grab their source and use them as a server for videos. Hulu's business model relies on advertising and having the videos pulled from other sources goes against their agreements. Nobody prevents you from watching Hulu site directly on TV from their site.

Another reason is most likely that they will introducing pay version of the site and want to license API and tools to companies like PlayOn who will offer the service but under Hulu's patronage. It's only business.

At this point I'm starting to appreciate my Xbox 360 much more than PS3. Xbox 360 simply does everything now with no problems. ]]>Jun 27th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 28th 2009 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
Unless you are directly using their website so they can have benefit in selling ads (read number of visits and users is how they sell it) to pay for the video bandwith and other things. Hulu has every right to prevent streaming videos the way PS3 or Boxee do. Obviously MediaMall did some arrangement with them or gives them some money for it to work and that's fine.]]>Jun 28th 2009 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/how does watching hulu through the ps3 browser affect hulu's ad revenue in any way that is different from watching it through a normal computer browser?

answer: it doesn't. hulu is trying to block it's content from appearing on a television.]]>Jun 28th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jul 3rd 2009 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
http://support.skyfire.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4479

Since this is occurring on multiple devices I suspect that it's change on hulu's end. Let's hope this is resolved swiftly.]]>Jun 28th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 28th 2009 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 29th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
Can someone elaborate as to how this is done and what this means exactly? Is he saying that you can change a setting on your PC's browser that makes it appear to be a PS3, and by doing so, it will get blocked just like the PS3? Theoretically, couldn't you just change the same setting on the PS3 to emulate a PC, therefore restoring hulu playback? I'm guessing that can't be the case. I feel sorry for you PS3 guys that you had hulu access on your tv and now it's gone.

I've never had hulu access on my living room tv and I'm wondering if there is a way that I overlooked. I have an Xbox360, but I'm pretty sure the only way to have hulu is to pay for PlayOn. I used the trial version a long time ago and I just wasn't impressed enough with it to consider buying the program (plus, I'm afraid something free would come along as soon as I did). I also have a Popcorn Hour A100, but I think it's the same story as the 360. I read on their forums that the processor used in it isn't strong enough to handle flash natively (which, admittedly, seems odd since it can handle 1080p video so well), so you need PlayOn to transcode the video. I do have a newer laptop from work which is kind of a beast, but it only has a VGA out for some reason (which looks blurry now that I'm used to DVI). I've been toying with the idea of getting a USB-to-DVI adapter from monoprice so I could digitally connect it to my monitor at home. I don't have a DVI input on my tv, but I do have a DVI-to-HDMI cable to handle the video. There are a few of these USB-to-DVI adapters to choose from...

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10114

...but I think I would need the one that has the separate audio inputs. I don't think the DVI would be able to carry the sound to the HDMI, right?

Once I got the connection setup, is there a cheap, simple solution to being able to control, my laptop remotely or do I have to sit next to it? I have a Logitech universal remote that can control anything, but I think I would need some sort of receiver for the laptop.]]>Jun 29th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
Browsers send a "user-agent" string with each request they make from a server, on a pc due to the open nature they are easy to fake, I am assuming the ps3's browser is much more locked down and therefore could not 'spoof' the user-agent string

The Reason the PopcornHour cannot decode the flash video is because flash is a closed standard almost always using software decoding, there is some hardware decoding (where the popcornhour's "power" comes from) in the works but nothing usable

As far as a usb-2-dvi adapter goes, it will be much much worse than that vga port (the usb bus is not very good at handling video-type bandwitch) basically you are trying to used a garden tap to feed a fire hose

I would look into a better vga cable first, and the cost of the usb adapter is easily more than a copy of playon will cost.

most laptops should have a ir receiver included (usually for windows media center) otherwise buying a cheap MCE remote with receiver is probably best if you insist on using your laptop ]]>Jun 29th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Jun 29th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/so little hd stuff on them,looks like shit on an hdtv.]]>Jun 30th 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/
Problem solved for them we aren't watchin their content and we are watchin what we want with NO interuptions SCORE!]]>Aug 2nd 2009 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/27/ps3-owners-get-boxeed-hulu-this-video-is-not-available-on-yo/Aug 3rd 2009 2:11PM