[mythtv-users] Boxee/Hulu?

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 23:03:41 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:59 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Thu, February 19, 2009 7:33 am, Brad Fuller wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
>>> Another example i
>>>
>>> "What Boxee is doing is taking copies of the NY Times, cutting them up
>>> to A4
>>> size sheets and then distributing your version of the NY Times at the
>>> 32nd
>>> and 7th ave exit of Penn Station.
>>>
>>> Sure NY Times will be selling more copies so should be happy, but Boxee
>>> are
>>> repurposing the content into their vision without the permission of the
>>> original licensor.
>>
>> this analogy and your original made perfect sense to me.
>
> What I don't understand is what Hulu is hoping will happen instead.  Do
> they really think the wave of the future is people huddled around computer
> monitors, with a keyboard and mouse, to watch content?  Or are they hoping
> to spin off their own STB, to get another revenue stream?

Maybe they don't really know, but they seem to understand they need to
own the channel.


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