There’s no shortage of Hulu coverage elsewhere (TechCrunch, WSJ, NewTeeVee) that I unfortunately don’t have time to fully read and digest just yet…but I will leave some initial thoughts after interacting with the first embeddable clip I used in my Hulu test:
- I really dig the little scrubbable clip customizer, that lets you grab a small segment within an entire video (although it needs some additional info to make that process easier)
- Whole episodes? Embeddable in my site? Seems too good to be true (or, “just how many ads are you eventually going to put in these things?”)
- Just from a quick look at the Hulu.com teaser homepage: Fox and NBC are about 60% of my TV viewing habits — if this is where I have to go for clips of The Simpsons, 30 Rock, The Office, SNL, etc., I have no problem with that.
More importantly — if they are the one place you can get a near-full archive of clips from those shows, this could be huge.