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by JakeTheAndroid 1238 days ago
Thanks for the update on that. I went back and checked and you're correct ESPN+ is there for Live TV. I just also happen to pay for Hulu Live, so it gets a bit buried. But it is in fact there.

I then went and checked Disney+ and you're also correct. Some of the Hulu content is now on that app. But yeah, its almost like completely random content was moved over, so it seems like its just easier to go to Hulu for now. But it's been clear for a while that Hulu is dying slowly.

For a while it seemed like Hulu was the path to killing Netflix but that floundered out years ago. And now everyone has their own service, so it seems very unlikely its worth trying to rebuild off Hulu at all. We'll see how Disney deals with the more adult/dark content on their platform but that seems like a better problem to solve than having 3 different platforms for streaming stuff. I do wonder if they will care at all about live streaming though; it costs a lot of money and idk how good the margins are.

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Yeah, my Hulu account dates back to an early Beta key from a friend then working at GE Appliances, and I've maintained an active subscription on my Hulu account through more years than my Netflix account, so there's an interesting sense of nostalgia/loss in assuming the Hulu brand will be dead soon and even if it manages to remain a zombie brand for a while (if for no other reason than the "After Dark" problem), the Disney era of Hulu which started just a few months back when Comcast sold their last shares of Hulu to Disney is already a different Hulu from the Hulu that once thought it could be a multi-provider aggregator platform to truly rival the cable companies. (Not that Disney killed that vision, Comcast did their part to kill that vision when they bought majority ownership from GE along with NBC Universal.)