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Hold on ... Hulu has download limits in the middle of watching a program? I've watched Hulu from 5 AM till 5 PM almost uninterrupted, the only interruption is between shows they will say "You've been watching for 3 hours, are you sure you don't want to take a break?". That repeats every two hours or so.

Yes, the commercials can be grating, and are still annoying but I think that is a small price to pay for streaming my content when I want. Also they are not NEARLY as long as the commercials on TV and if a TV commercial is really loud (I'm looking at you eHarmony commercial) and you complain they will actually do something about it.

Hulu may have its limitations because of stupid studio rules, but overall the experience of watching content online with Hulu is pretty straightforward and easy.

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I really wanted to like Hulu. I even paid for Hulu Plus so I could watch it on my PS3 and get access to the larger library. But on my PS3, Hulu streaming was flakey. And then the commercials. The commercials ended it. After watching on Netflix, I just couldn't deal with Hulu's commercials. They're nearly as grating as cable TV, and for some strange reason they always seemed to be inserted 5 seconds away from where the content was written for them to be inserted: music, COMMERCIAL, finish music, fade through black.

I would happily pay for Hulu Plus Plus, where the extra plus means I pay more and they turn off the commercials. But I'm unwilling to pay for Hulu Plus at all.

I was looking at using Hulu Plus to augment my Netflix subscription, but when I found out that even the paid version had commercials I changed my mind.

At one point they were experimenting with a "Watch one long commercial at the beginning then no interruptions" thing, which was fantastic, but I guess they nixed that, because I haven't seen it the last few times I've been on Hulu.

There are two reasons why I refuse to pay for Hulu:

1. Subscribing does not remove commercials.

2. A large number of the shows on Hulu cannot be played through a set-top box like a Roku.

I think he's talking about internet bandwidth limits; e.g., you get 50 gigabytes a month, and you hit that limit after watching a few episodes.

See also: why Netflix is popular while Hulu sucks and is only used as a last resort after you can't find [x] on torrents.

No, Hulu doesn't have limits, but some other web TV archives do have daily limits.

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