[RussRomStanBety]

Hulu needs a new revenue, and subscription model. I canceled my paid subscription because I got tired of looking at ad's (constantly interrupting) in stream. What's the point of a paid subscription?

If I'm going to put myself through a scheduled annoyance I might as well go to cable/Dish. At least with them I'm not stuck with limited content.

Possible solution: They can just go Justin.tv on everyone and start encouraging (I mean discouraging :p) copyrighted material.

[ChuckMcM]

This is the hard nut "I canceled my paid subscription because I got tired of looking at ad's".

It is interesting that NetFlix traffic started exceeding torrent and p2p traffic, it will be more interesting if the price hike at Netflix reverses that trend.

Many people don't think that they are 'paying' for something when they sit through and advertisement, and yet they don't sit through it when there are 'too many' ads. Economically that transaction is identical. If you consider ad tolerance as the currency, you 'raise' the price by putting in more ads (which does raise the income of the content provider) but that drives away people (reduces demand) when people are ad saturated. Lower the number of ads, get more people. Since you can't always make enough to run a business, there is the advertisement + subscription which is two currencies vs just ads.

Another HN comment talked about the need to disrupt the movies, this is the same for TV.

[abraham]

> Possible solution: They can just go Justin.tv on everyone and start encouraging (I mean discouraging :p) copyrighted material.

Just about everything (if not everything) on Hulu is copyrighted. There is no user generated content aside from comments and ratings.

[RussRomStanBety]

Yes but their copyrights are shrinking by the day. Most of the good programs have already been taken off Hulu because Networks like Fox, CBS, HBO have realized they can stream the content themselves. What do they need Hulu for?

[abraham]

I would argue that the program offered by Hulu are still growing. Probably rapidly too. Hulu is owned by NBC, Fox, and Disney after all so will have a much easier time acquiring rights to stream then Google ever will. If the rumor that Google is trying to lock in 10 year access rights is correct then Google will significantly increase the available shows offered on YouTube.