Interesting note, it does NOT require an Intel processor. The site went live with that in the requirements copy, but in truth it's just a suggested minimum in terms of processing power.<p>I and @hulusupport hashed this out via twitter today and the copy should be changed to reflect this soon.
<a href="http://www.hulu.com/labs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hulu.com/labs/</a><p>Other features added today:<p>-- Video Panel Designer for clip embedding<p>-- Recommendations<p>-- Time-Based Browsing
What an enormous waste -- why bother distributing a desktop app if you're going to stick with Flash? Taking the browser out of the mix doesn't solve anything except direct access to a remote control.<p>The video rendering would be a full order of magnitude more efficient if it wasn't blitted through Adobe's craptacular runtime firs, all just to get some measly overlays.
It'll be interesting to see how this works. As a user I'm a fan of thick clients, but it's an unanswered question whether and when thick clients are a valuable companion product for a web app. This is another data point to that question.<p>(I guess Twitter is another example of a place where thick clients have a clear place alongside the standard web thin client, but that's somewhat different in that these thick clients are, if I'm not mistaken, produced by third parties rather than Twitter.)
Just checked it out and think it's a great idea but it's UI in how it lists shows is hard to see from far away on my 42" LCD.<p>I think the UI should mimic what is seen on Hulu which has larger thumbnails.<p>Pretty cool to see this though!
That's nice. Now let's see an official client for set-top boxes, and maybe phones.<p>It's very buggy, by the way. Crashes within 30 seconds every time I use it.