Hulu Competes With Netflix

On Tuesday, Hulu announced the launch of their paid subscription service. The service runs at $9.99 per month and subscribers can watch most of recent TV shows from the current season, along with episodes of past seasons, including the popular shows such as Glee, Office, and House among others from ABC, NBC, and Fox. At $9.99, the service becomes affordable and I know for fact that more people than not are willing to pay for the subscription to watch their favorite TV shows at any time they want. Hulu’s On-Demand subscription service will compete with streaming content of offered by Netflix. Netflix currently does not offer too many of the popular current network TV shows so Hulu will have an advantage over Netflix in this category.

Which is better?

I still believe Netflix has a huge edge of Hulu. Netflix is more affordable at $8.99/mo and you still receive unlimited DVD rental included with your service. Netflix also have blue-ray players and playstation, Wii consoles and even Roku media players to help you stream content onto your TV. However, Hulu does have plans to launch their service to be compatible with playstation in the future. Hulu also will still have advertisement in their streaming content. This is a huge negative for viewers especially since they are actually paying for the content. Netflix has no advertisement in their streaming content.

Hulu’s service is currently available by invitation only and has plans to release to the entire public in the near future.