Comments on: Could Disney Join Hulu? Sources Say Talks Are Serious http://paidcontent.org/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/ The economics of digital content Sat, 25 May 2013 21:53:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Codeseer http://paidcontent.org/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68100 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:30:50 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68100 It's partially about centralizing content. However, the big loss of ABC and CWTV is that they use that Move Player. This makes ABC and CWTV content unplayable on all of the Linux systems. From the looks of it, all they did on Veoh was add a link back to their website with the same player. Hulu secures the content, but makes use of Flash; Hulu's Flash based player works just fine on Linux systems. Flash is an acceptable standard that works on Linux, Mac, Windows and Solaris and with Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer. We're really talking about development/content 101 principles; stick with the standards when possible. Disney channel content would be a great bonus.

]]> By: Doug http://paidcontent.org/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68099 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:28:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68099 hello I thought you might be interested in this article

Of course you probably already know about this

Doug

]]> By: James Tripp http://paidcontent.org/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68098 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:30:19 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68098 This is vertical integration and a violation of the Sherman anti-trust laws. See the 1948 precedent set by United States vs. Paramount.

]]> By: Chad http://paidcontent.org/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68097 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:47:55 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/03/27/419-abc-in-serious-discussions-for-equity-stake-in-hulu/#comment-68097 I'd love to see this happen. I have been having problems with the video player that ABC has on it's website for more than six months, and have completely given up trying to figure out how to get the tool to work! Putting shows on the non-hassle Hulu is a much better idea, in my mind, than having a faulty program that freezes and crashes browsers when viewers are trying to catch up on shows they may have missed when they first aired.

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