http://www.quitcable.com Cut the cord - It's easy! Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.quitcable.com/hulu-plus-review/#comment-510 Wesley Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:30:25 +0000 http://www.quitcable.com/alpha/?page_id=70#comment-510 I think Hulu Plus is great for watching certain shows. I really like to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and Hulu adds new episodes the day after they air. The commercials are a little annoying and that is where Netflix has an advantage as their shows are commercial free. But Netflix doesn't offer shows the very next day after they air like Hulu Plus does. I also noticed that some episodes do expire. For example, I wanted to go back and watch the show Revolution from the beginning but several of the early episodes had already been removed. I'm not sure how that all works because some shows do have all the episodes available. I have both Hulu Plus and Netflix and together you get a ton of content for $15.98 a month compared to the $100 I was paying for cable. I think Hulu Plus is great for watching certain shows. I really like to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and Hulu adds new episodes the day after they air. The commercials are a little annoying and that is where Netflix has an advantage as their shows are commercial free. But Netflix doesn’t offer shows the very next day after they air like Hulu Plus does. I also noticed that some episodes do expire. For example, I wanted to go back and watch the show Revolution from the beginning but several of the early episodes had already been removed. I’m not sure how that all works because some shows do have all the episodes available. I have both Hulu Plus and Netflix and together you get a ton of content for $15.98 a month compared to the $100 I was paying for cable.

]]> http://www.quitcable.com/hulu-plus-review/#comment-466 Lindsay Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:22:18 +0000 http://www.quitcable.com/alpha/?page_id=70#comment-466 I've never been so frustrated than when I got Hulu Plus. It says it has every episode... A random 4 were missing from the middle of the season because te expired. It is way too slower for anyone to actually have patients to watch something. Netflix is a million times better. This is not even worth a one week free trail. Terrible. I’ve never been so frustrated than when I got Hulu Plus. It says it has every episode… A random 4 were missing from the middle of the season because te expired. It is way too slower for anyone to actually have patients to watch something. Netflix is a million times better. This is not even worth a one week free trail. Terrible.

]]> http://www.quitcable.com/hulu-plus-review/#comment-129 Quit Cable Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:09:32 +0000 http://www.quitcable.com/alpha/?page_id=70#comment-129 The simple answer is that depends on the speed that Hulu is streaming the video to you. About a year ago, Hulu said that for 360p it streams at about 650 Kb/s, and for 480p streams at 1 Mb/s. Assuming the streaming speed is 1 Mbps (it's going to be more if you're streaming HD video), streaming 1 hour of content would use up about 450 MB. You can calculate this by taking the 1 Megabit per second streaming speed, multiplying it by 60 seconds per minute, multiplying by 60 minutes in an hour, and then dividing all of that by 8 to get the amount of data in Megabytes (there are 8 Megabits in 1 Megabyte). Most 1 hour shows being about 40 minutes, that would calculate out to about 300 MB -- (1*60*40)/8. You might also try using a data usage estimator that you can find online such as: http://www.cableone.net/pages/datacalculator.html Source for speed that Hulu streams content at: http://www.hulu.com/discussions/1/45349/1252885 The simple answer is that depends on the speed that Hulu is streaming the video to you. About a year ago, Hulu said that for 360p it streams at about 650 Kb/s, and for 480p streams at 1 Mb/s. Assuming the streaming speed is 1 Mbps (it’s going to be more if you’re streaming HD video), streaming 1 hour of content would use up about 450 MB. You can calculate this by taking the 1 Megabit per second streaming speed, multiplying it by 60 seconds per minute, multiplying by 60 minutes in an hour, and then dividing all of that by 8 to get the amount of data in Megabytes (there are 8 Megabits in 1 Megabyte). Most 1 hour shows being about 40 minutes, that would calculate out to about 300 MB — (1*60*40)/8.
You might also try using a data usage estimator that you can find online such as: http://www.cableone.net/pages/datacalculator.html
Source for speed that Hulu streams content at: http://www.hulu.com/discussions/1/45349/1252885

]]> http://www.quitcable.com/hulu-plus-review/#comment-122 Jmoodespaugh@gmail.com Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:38:09 +0000 http://www.quitcable.com/alpha/?page_id=70#comment-122 Who ever has this I was wondering how much data it takes up since I am on verizon data package that doesn't have unlimited data. Thanks Who ever has this I was wondering how much data it takes up since I am on verizon data package that doesn’t have unlimited data. Thanks

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