This news might actually get me to start watching Heroes weekly again.This week, Hulu.com bulked up its free HD Gallery to include new episodes of Heroes, The Office, 30 Rock and all of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in 720p high definition. I just streamed "It's Coming," last week's ep of Heroes, and it looked great on my 25-inch iMac. I'm no tech wiz, but I can easily see the difference in visual quality between the site's HD offerings and its regular streaming content. (Too bad HD can't work the same magic on Tim Kring's script.)
I don't have an HD TV. I usually watch my favorite shows on an out-of-date 20-inch box. So, from my perspective, Hulu's HD content looks pretty amazing. It's the greatest thing to happen to TV since last night's ep of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Yes, I have a short attention span.
There are a limited number of HD offerings so far, but Hulu is expected to add more shows and possibly movies as viewership increases. Unfortunately, you can't embed any of Hulu's HD content on your own blog or site, unlike most of its offerings.
If Hulu is taking suggestions, I'd like to nominate Bones, House and 24 for inclusion in the HD Gallery. Maybe then I'll have a reason to watch those shows more often. They can add Sarah Connor to that list too. That way, I'll have a somewhat legit reason to watch it more than once a week.
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11-25-2008 @ 1:40PM
bob said...
FOX.com streams Sarah Connor for free in HD.
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11-25-2008 @ 1:40PM
Mike Moody said...
There's my reason!
11-25-2008 @ 2:02PM
Oneiroi said...
Yeah you can definately tell the difference.
On my computer at least, if you watch standard and you click high-def there's a second where it still plays in standard and switches to HD. It's great to be able to see that difference.
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11-25-2008 @ 2:23PM
Chris said...
Welcome to 3 and a half months ago. At least research before you post something as new.
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/08/hulu_adds_hd_episodes_of_heroe.php
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11-25-2008 @ 2:29PM
Mike Moody said...
I might be wrong, but as far as I know, the site just added all these new eps recently. The first graph of the article you linked to reads "Hulu said it has added high-definition versions of several episodes of full-length television shows." Notice the "said it has added" not "has added". Again, I could be wrong, but these are brand new HD eps.
11-25-2008 @ 3:06PM
goggles said...
I watch my shows on a 20 inch out of date television too...Kudos!
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11-25-2008 @ 3:41PM
Nhex said...
For some reason, when you watch the eps in HD on Hulu its pops up a new window AND disables fullscreen mode on the player. For shame.
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11-25-2008 @ 3:41PM
LoganT said...
First, you have a 24" iMac. And second, while HD Hulu is cool, I really wish you could full screen the video. In fact I don't understand the reason we can't do that now.
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11-25-2008 @ 3:45PM
Mike Moody said...
I can view these HD videos in full screen on my computer. Maybe you guys should try another browser, i'm using Firefox for mac.
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11-25-2008 @ 5:17PM
David said...
I found a new beta site that offiers nicely organized movies and tv shows and updates them on the HOUR. http://www.ovpulse.com kind like my Yahoo for movies and tv shows, they also sport overlay 'chat' while watching a movie or tv show...
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11-25-2008 @ 5:30PM
hello said...
I can view HD in my computer just fine
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