Hulu and Netflix — Good Companions

Published March 26th, 2008 in TelcoTV

“I don’t have TV.” — “Oh.” is the answer I mostly get, together with a pitiful look, suspecting either a problem with my credit cards, a mental disorder, or even something more serious like not knowing how to get cable or dish, or not knowing how to program a TV set.

However, when I talk to people at my company or from the Valley, I mostly get the response “Yeah, TV sucks. I have [Tivo | Slingbox | Netflix | Hulu | Babelgum | Joost | YouTube | ...]“. So what was “TV” again? I feel that Netflix and Hulu are a perfect combination - Hulu is for the occasional glance at a TV series, or watching an older movie, where you will skip forward and backward a couple of times, and Netflix for a really nice quality without ad interruptions.

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