Hulu

About Hulu

Hulu is a website that offers free, high-quality streaming video of TV shows and movies, primarily from NBC and FOX, as well as numerous cable networks, television studios, and movie studios. Hulu has online social networking features, allowing users to clip videos, or parts of videos, from the site for posting in outside online communities. (Hulu has called this aspect video sharing, though users cannot upload content.) Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.

Hulu provides video in Flash Video format in a higher resolution and bit-rate than YouTube and other streaming video on the web, but lower than standard-definition television, though some films are available in 480p. For users, the service is free and ad-supported, with optional registration. Video downloading for offline viewing is not supported. Hulu also provides web syndication services for other websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo!, and Comcast's Fancast.com.

Hulu distributes video both on its own web site and syndicated to other sites. In addition to NBC and FOX programs, Hulu carries shows from other networks such as Comedy Central, PBS, USA Network, Bravo, Fuel TV, FX, SPEED Channel, Sci Fi, Style, Sundance, E!, G4, Versus and Oxygen.