Hulu Desktop Makes a Play for Your Home Theater PC
If you have a home theater PC, you've probably been wondering what it would take to get and use Hulu.com content on it easily. Media Centers like Boxee and Plex offer a hacky kind of integration with Hulu through plugins, and some work better than others, but up to now it always seemed like you could either get the full Hulu experience with guides and playlists, or you could use your remote control with it, but not both.
It's worth noting that one of the problems has been with the content providers, who don't want their content served through other applications, and have blocked access by media center applications more than once. But now there's a solution that might make everyone happy.
Hulu Labs' Hulu Desktop application is a sort of hybrid between a media center app and a website. It's functionally the same as Hulu.com, but since it's a resident app on your hard drive, you can use your Apple or Windows Media Center remote to control it. Like the website, you can't download videos and you still have to watch commercials, and unlike a traditional media center app, only Hulu content is served--you'll still need a separate program to watch videos on your hard drive. But still, you just found one more potential reason to chuck your cable bill.
Hulu Desktop is available for Windows and Mac (no Linux support for now). Learn more and download here.
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