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With Hulu Plus debuting this calendar week, online video fans volition presently have another alternative to the overpriced programming bundles offered by the cable and satellite companies. While Web-based services that stream movies and TV shows to the home can't notwithstanding match the immediacy and depth of traditional pay Idiot box, they're edging closer.

Hulu Plus hasn't opened for business however, but let's take a look at how it compares on paper with Netflix, the movie rental service that about closely matches Hulu Plus'due south all-you-can-stream business model.

Toll and Features

Hulu Plus will cost $10 a month, and will let you spotter every episode from the electric current season of popular shows from the major TV networks, including ABC, NBC, and Play a joke on. (Distressing, CBS fans, yous'll have to get your Big Brother ready elsewhere.) In addition, yous'll exist able to watch entire past seasons of archetype shows such as thirty Rock, The Office, and The X-Files. In theory, you'll never need to purchase a boxed DVD set again for your favorite shows–well, unless your tastes veer toward the eclectic.

Netflix costs a minimum of $ix a month and has a very extensive catalog of movies and Goggle box shows. In that location'southward one big drawback, nonetheless; y'all won't notice episodes from the current season, and some past seasons are available but on DVD/Blu-ray. Overall, though, Netflix is better for flick buffs, while Hulu Plus is best for network TV fans who want to go along up with current shows.

Moving picture/Tv Library

Netflix, with more than 20,000 titles bachelor for streaming, kicks booty here. Hulu Plus has a mere two,000-plus Television set episodes. Both services will continue to stockpile titles, of course, so these numbers will continue to rise.

Home Hardware Support

To watch Hulu Plus or Netflix on your large-screen Idiot box, you'll need an Cyberspace-enabled Boob tube with an ethernet port, Wi-Fi, or both; or a Internet-fix Blu-ray player, game console, or set-top box that's uniform with the service you want.

It's no surprise that Netflix, the established veteran, supports more devices. These include the height three game consoles (Sony PlayStation three; Microsoft Xbox 360; and Nintendo Wii); seven Internet-enabled Blu-ray players; three HDTVS; the TiVo digital video recorder; and three set-top boxes, including the popular Roku Streaming Player. Hulu Plus, by comparison, volition initially run on select Samsung TVs and Blu-ray players, with support for Sony and Vizio hardware coming later this year. PlayStation 3 compatibility is "coming soon;" Xbox 360 support is slated for early 2011. The Wii? Well, somewhen.

Mobile Devices

Hulu Plus volition support Wi-Fi and 3G connections, and it'll run on a trio of Apple'southward mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Netflix's mobile story is similar: the iPhone/iPod app should arrive soon, and the iPad app is already out. Merely are 3G data networks and streaming movies are a good match? Based on my experiences, they're not. With 4G networks on the fashion, however, both services could presently exist major players in the mobile entertainment biz.

Advert

Shows on Hulu Plus, like their counterparts on the regular (and gratis) Hulu, will take commercials. That's a bummer for subscribers, only a second means of income for Hulu. Netflix has no commercials. That lone would make me choose Netflix over Hulu Plus. (And so again, I'k also more than of a movie buff than a Idiot box watcher, and Netflix has a lot more than of the content I want.)

Image Quality

Hulu Plus shows volition exist in loftier-def (720p) resolution, but the speed of your Cyberspace connection will play a big gene in epitome quality. Netflix shows sure titles in HD, but only if your broadband link is five mbps or faster.

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