Nice to see TechCrunch got the memo about how to write like engadget ... summarize someone else's article, link to 10 of your own.<p>Wonder when they'll tuck the source link away somewhere discrete.
Hulu IPO would be good sign for the markets. Amazing that they got this shareholders together in the first place.
But I wouldn't invest. Definitely not for the long run.
They will still be controlled by the large media companies and if Hulu's profits rise they will just charge Hulu more for the license. So Hulu's earning potential is limited.
As is with the networks owning hulu, I can understand their incentive to make hulu a destination site, so atleast they get a chunk of the revenue and not a third part... as a separate public company they don't have this advantage so it's dependent on Hulu's ability to lock up long-term contracts, which I'm not sure they can do. This is a lot like Orbitz... originally started by a consortium of TV companies/air carriers then went public