SF Signal: It's a Sci Fi Christmas

It's a Sci Fi Christmas - Land of the Giants

Recently, I had the opportunity to join the closed beta for NBC's new streaming video service, Hulu. It's been called a YouTube competitor, but that's really an inappropriate description. What it is, is a repository for a ton of TV show episodes, both old and new, that you can stream to your PC or, even cooler, embedded on a website, such as ours. This is awesomeness beyond belief.

So, as our Christmas gift to you, every hour or so for the next few hours we'll be posting an episode, or two, of a classic or influential science fiction TV show. And what we show you is just a taste of the library Hulu has to offer. I'm impressed so far, I think you will be too.

First up, an Irwin Allen classic: Land of the Giants.

(Yes, you'll have to put up with the occasional commercial. Deal with it, it's free! And all videos are after the jump in deference to our readers with slower connections.)

So does SFSignal have to pay for this privilege? I can't imagine this will stay free forever. Is this the kind of stuff that the Hollywood writers are trying to double dip on??

Posted by Peter Y on Tuesday December 25, 2007 at 5:04 PM

Actually, NBC doesn't own Hulu exactly - it is a seperate company that has been setup to run the internet distribution system but funded by NBC and News Corp (and some VC firms.)

You can read about it here
and here.

And NBC.com is still going to host content and do so seperately than Hulu. That just seems odd to me - what exactly is Hulu about then? JP - do you see any features or functions that differs enough from NBC.com to make it worth going to? I see one difference is that Hulu allows postings like we see here while NBC.com does not. But are entire TV shows something somebody really wants to watch from a blog post anyway? Hmmm....

Posted by Scottsh on Tuesday December 25, 2007 at 10:17 PM