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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.
thanks! I wish it could play hulu though...
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.
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.
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.
Why? I mean, if you're not watching the ads anyway, what's their incentive?
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.
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.
it's becoming increasingly easy to automatically download ahemmed TV shows
Well, with the impending doom of Mininova, a wrench may be thrown into the works.
A clever place to hide your passwords (if you have to write them down): Passwords on floppy disk
The picture explains it all. You put your password on a tiny piece of paper that you stick on the floppy's magnetic disk. So to find the password you'd have to have the right floppy, have the floppy's disk rotated to the correct place and then slide the floppy's protective metal cover out of the way....