Exactly. I've been in love with Hulu but after Boxee and now this, a big FU HULU.
I had no problem the commercials in Hulu (would even pay for premium Hulu access), I know people need to get paid. But if the conglomerates are going to force proprietary delivery channels to strictly Hulu-approved devices/software, then they didn't learn a damn thing from the music business and deserve everything coming.
I'm hoping that a Boxee developer makes a plugin that gives me access to my usenet accounts, handles the download, unparing, etc. Very high quality (often 1080p), commercial free, no latency/skipping and super fast for only $18 month.
Some Usenet providers do this on the server-side and just give you an HTTP download. Watching a show consists of starting the download, and invoking VLC on that. (The download is faster than real-time, so it "streams".)
Easynews also has RSS feeds, so it would be a simple matter of programming to write an app that searches for your favorite shows and lets you immediately start watching them.
Bittorrent clients also have RSS feed readers. For less than HD, you can often watch a show for only 30 minutes lead time. If you have things set to download automatically, then there are probably unwatched shows waiting for you all the time. Then, it's like Tivo.
As long as you have a usenet account, and a computer that can run Python, the above software will do what you want. Granted, it helps a lot more if you have a newzbin account.
I had no problem the commercials in Hulu (would even pay for premium Hulu access), I know people need to get paid. But if the conglomerates are going to force proprietary delivery channels to strictly Hulu-approved devices/software, then they didn't learn a damn thing from the music business and deserve everything coming.
I'm hoping that a Boxee developer makes a plugin that gives me access to my usenet accounts, handles the download, unparing, etc. Very high quality (often 1080p), commercial free, no latency/skipping and super fast for only $18 month.