Excellent, watched and used it all weekend, not a problem and no buffer problems at all, crystal clear and great. This is excellent software and with high speed connections you should have no problems. Well done Hulu and I hope it helps bring down cable prices (however I doubt it will curb their selfish greed) of which are getting way way too high and cable companies are becoming too high and mighty.

Hulu is well worth your time and they have allot of programing....

I've used it all weekend. i like it alot. Aside from one time when i could seem to get a decent buffer for some reason. not my issue but theres.

Joost started with a client but eventually switched to the browser because the client was just to much of a bother porting over to other systems. i.e. Windows, OSX, and Linux.

"To run Hulu Desktop on a PC, a 1.8 GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM running Windows XP or later is needed. A 2.0 GHz Intel Mac with 2 GB RAM and OS X 10.4 or later can also run the software"

To run in Windows: 1.8GHz.
To run in Mac OSX: 2Ghz

Heh... That's amusing. ;)

Very promising, but buggy. Not Windows Media Center, but a decent compromise once someone works out how to launch it from WMC successfully.

The remote-centered UI is pretty slick, although it's dumbed down for the simpler Mac remotes. Example: Play/Pause is the OK button on the remote. A major annoyance is that it starts playing a show on load, which not only is what I do not want to do but it slows down the startup of the app. There's also no way to stop videos (as opposed to pause), so you're always downloading unless you've completed playback of a video. The startup screen seems to be pretty pointless as well, especially seeing as how you can never return to it. Another bug that I found is that it does not retain your video quality setting if you are not running a profile.

Why would I pass up on watching free TV whenever I like because the content providers can't get their international s*** together?

Your right the world doesn't end in the USA, but Hulu's contract with the content providers does. Plus every "self respecting internet nerd" should know how to get around that.

because if you didn't support it, trust me, they would get their sh*t together more quickly

Bah,

Hulu was a cooperative venture by NBC and FOX. It is now being joined (a 1/3 stake) by ABC. What you need to understand about these companies is they do not want people watching TV on their computers. They would celebrate if people stopped watching TV online and went back to their 23 minute shows with 7 minutes of commercials on the boob tube. Sure the actual Hulu employees would be sad (since they would be out of a job), but isn't that like killing the messenger?

The only reason Hulu exists is so these networks can have a web presence. They understand that while they don't like it, the internet is the future, and they at least want a stake in that (instead of leaving it to pirates and Youtube). Therefore they will take a loss leader hoping eventually they can monetize the Hulu name and content delivery system.

So if you really want to punish FOX, NBC, and ABC for dragging their feet on international content delivery (never mind there's dozens of middle-man companies that would cry foul if Hulu was opened up to the world), then boycott their networks entirely, not just Hulu.com.

Or you could just whine about it on a comment thread - your call really.

Dodga stop talking out of your a** about a business you obviously have no clue about. Americans can't watch BBC iPlayer or similar either and trust me - they need it much more urgently than you watching US programming.

the internet, a segregated medium ... be proud of what you guys support :P and i haven't watched 'TV' or supported networks since 2000

It is a USA based company....