TV On The Desktop

I downloaded the Hulu Desktop app tonight. Cool stuff. Caught up with a premiere episode of Glee. I’ve used Hulu on the web, which is fine, but the local app is much snappier and richer.

Watching TV this way makes sense, after everyone goes to bed and you want to tune in to a show. It‘s certainly not social, and it’s not a rich experience due to the small screen a typically “OK” speaker on a notebook, but I don’t have to record anything, I have a big selection, it’s free, and I can pause it and come back tomorrow night and watch the rest from where i left off.

The Hulu app also works with remotes, so it should play nice on the Dell XPS One in the kitchen – I’ll try that tomorrow.