I think you may need to clean your mouse/trackpad/trackball.
That's the reason it was happening to me last week. Old mouse with a trackball when my newer mouse died. I couldn't figure it out because I hadn't had a trackball to clean in so long.
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Deena - Aug 26, 2009 4:12:14 pm PDT #11030 of 25501
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le nubian - Aug 26, 2009 4:33:12 pm PDT #11031 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Gris,
can you link to the kind of player you bought?
Gris - Aug 26, 2009 4:43:43 pm PDT #11032 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Oh yeah!
It's an LG BD390.
I just checked pictures and the CinemaNow feature. Pictures are like music - you can do a slideshow for pictures in a folder, but nothing more sophisticated. And the CinemaNow looks pretty nice if you want to pay to rent a single movie - the quality on trailers is really nice at least, definitely better than DVD. I might use it if I ever MUST see a movie right then and can't wait for Netflix.
le nubian - Aug 26, 2009 5:33:07 pm PDT #11033 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thanks! I wish it could play hulu though...
Gris - Aug 26, 2009 5:40:04 pm PDT #11034 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Right now nothing less than a full PC can play Hulu without the aid of something like PlayOn (a Windows DLNA server that transcodes and streams Hulu on the fly to any DLNA player, like this player, an Xbox 360, or a PS3). Hulu has been very reluctant to let set-top boxes have Hulu access for some reason, or I'm sure players would be all over it.
Jessica - Aug 27, 2009 3:46:31 am PDT #11035 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hulu has been very reluctant to let set-top boxes have Hulu access for some reason
The reason is all of Hulu's investment partners are TV networks. They don't want to compete with their own broadcasts.
Gris - Aug 27, 2009 4:40:48 am PDT #11036 of 25501
Hey. New board.
That makes some sense, but it's becoming increasingly easy to automatically download ahemmed TV shows using RSS feeds so that users like me can watch them on our set-top boxes soon after they air (usually within hours, and definitely by the next day). With no commercials. Or for that matter use a Tivo and still skip all the commercials. They'd be a lot better off letting me use Hulu.
Jessica - Aug 27, 2009 4:44:56 am PDT #11037 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Why? I mean, if you're not watching the ads anyway, what's their incentive?
Gris - Aug 27, 2009 5:23:10 am PDT #11038 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I would watch the ads with Hulu. I don't think you can get around it, and the ones on the web site are minimally intrusive anyway. I only watch the pirated versions because I don't have a better, easier, more legal choice. I could spring for an Apple TV and watch iTunes shows on it, I guess, but it's kind of an expensive proposition just to watch a few TV shows at my leisure when I already have good equipment.
What I really think they should do is work out some sort of subscription system for Hulu. I'm paying $15+ a month for my Netflix subscription, which is great for back titles. I would pay $15 a month for Hulu, too, or $2-$4 a month for individual channels (eps + extra features, like on the Glee channel). Do they get more than that much advertising revenue per viewer? I've never really examined the numbers, but I have a hard time believing my one eye is worth more than $1 an episode.
Tom Scola - Aug 27, 2009 5:25:26 am PDT #11039 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Do they get more than that much advertising revenue per viewer?
Considering the number of PSAs that pop up, it looks like Hulu is vastly undersold.