September 25-Hulu

Ok, so I've been talking about this website for a LONG time now. I've been telling everybody I meet how great this site is, so I'm gonna finally post the link here. The site is called Hulu (link), and they have tv shows and movies on the site. You have to sit through a few commercials, but it's nothing like actually watching tv. I guess it was created by NBC or something. (But there are shows from all different channels on the site.) They get the licenses to put these things up on their website. Some of them are already out there on the official websites (like The Colbert Report or The Daily Show), but it's easier to navigate hulu than to find the shows on their website. The format of watching them is kind of like YouTube. There's no downloading involved. You just watch it straight on your screen.

When you're looking through, there are some tv shows that they just have clips of, and some that they have the full episode of, so look for that when you're looking for something to watch. It's the same way with the movies, some of them are just clips, and some of them are the full length movie.

You can watch just about anything on the site without signing up. But if you want to watch something that's rated R or something like that, then you do need to sign up. And if you sign up, you can "subscribe" to shows so that when there's a new episode, it'll be automatically added to your queue and you can get an e-mail telling you it's there.

Oh yeah, and the shows and movies do expire after a certain amount of time.

One thing I definately recommend you watch is Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. It's hilarious!!! It has Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris.




And last night I watched the movie In the Time of the Butterflies. It's based on a true story, and it's REALLY sad. I loved it though. It has Salma Hayek and Mark Anthony. This movie expires in 4 days though, so if you want to watch it, you better hurry.





p.s. Some of the commercials are REALLY annoying.