Tube.  I love the latest trend of making online video more accessible to tv.  My tv capture card is pretty much obsolete now thanks to Hulu.  Not that I’m complaining or anything.  There are certainly worse things in life, like a 4 book series about some dumb high school girl, some vampires and werewolves. The only thing worse than that, is that story made into a movie with untalented adolescent retards trying to act…. I’m sorry that was mean.  I didn’t mean to offend retards.

Youtube XL looks like it’ll make it even easier to waste hours of my life but in full screen and with a remote. 

Hot on the heels of Hulu’s remote-control friendly desktop application, YouTube introduces its own TV-sized interface called YouTube XL.

At the beginning of the year Google unleashed an optimized interface for the Wii and PS3, but YouTube XL appears to be the next step in that progression. The new and improved YouTube XL (presumable the XL stands for extra large) boasts a better interface than the old “YouTube for TV,” though it lacks a few of the features available on YouTube proper. (Namely comments, which is arguably a positive.)

via Lifehacker

I have wrote before about ditching DirecTV for internet TV. Mostly this was possible with software like Vuze. Which had you downloading torrents. We loved the option of adding Boxee to the mix, but then Hulu kicked them in the balls. So in attempt for you to forget about Boxee, Hulu released their own desktop software.

I would love to insert a great review here for it, but we forget until we leave home, it only works in the US. I am not sure why, the people that would steal the content can still get to it through proxies. But never the less I sit in Canada today, with a box telling me I am not welcomed here. So much for watching my reruns of “Doogie Howser, M.D.”

One of the other things they are working on that looks to be promising is ‘Time Based Browsing.” Allowing you to look pretty much at a tv guide of when the shows came on and click to play them. Once they get a few more networks onboard Hulu will be taking off even more.

We have had a good run, but I don’t just see making a lifetime commitment to you. It is scary and sad to leave someone you have been with for a long time. Fear of being alone, will you really ever find a replacement? But it is a decision that came after another TiVo in the house died.

There are tons of articles covering the legal, and illegal, ways of transitioning from broadcast television to broadband television. Once I found the world of Vuze and Boxee the only thing that concerned me is my four year old son. How to replace hours of cartoon network and Disney shows.

Most of the reason of the switch has to do with convenience. This is the world I live in, I want things to work together, easily and quickly. When I am on the road I want to be able to watch my shows on my iPhone. When I am at home i want to be able to watch my shows on my TV. Honestly Vuze I have found to be the best fit. Not only can I subscribe to the RSS feed of my show so that it is automatically downloaded, but it will convert it and put it on my PS3 or my iPhone. Giving me the mobility I need.

But how to keep my son from loosing his shows? It was actually an easier task than I originally thought it would be. Boxee is a great media platform for the Mac that you can run on the Apple TVs. With it’s interface with Hulu I was set. Thankfully my son is obsessed with classic cartoons such as The Pink Panther, and those are shows that are in abundance on Hulu.

Needles to say the extra $75 a month I save is nice, but don’t think it doesn’t have it’s drawbacks. Such as a lot of live events that you can’t find streamed on the Internet. I don’t watch the news, so that wasn’t a problem normally, but what about in extreme weather.

All and all, so far it has worked out well. Even with wife not being very tech savvy, she is happy with the free HD content found online, most without commercials. It is all about ease of use, and most of that thankfully comes from Vuze.

UPDATE: I just found a piece from The Washington Post over this same thing almost.

One step closer to cutting the cord to my satellite. Hulu is going to offer the June 1st, Dave Matthews Band, live streaming on their site. The biggest thing that has kept me from canceling my cable/satellite is not having a live stream of events on TV. I am excited about the possibilities that this will open up with streaming events.

It’s a good fit for Hulu’s first live concert broadcast–the site’s first live streaming event was a presidential debate last October. The Dave Matthews Band’s original Gen-X and Gen-Y fan base is exactly the demographic of 20- and 30-somethings–though not necessarily tech-savvy ones–who would tune into a concert stream online. And conveniently, the date of the show is the day before the band’s long-anticipated new album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” hits stores online and offline.

(Via CNET)