Fox and NBC Universal little video site Hulu.com is up and running. It’s been in beta for about 4 months and went live this week. If you haven’t signed up yet what are you waiting for? It’s pretty great. I’ve spent the last couple of nights catching up on shows I’ve missed.
The site has both TV shows and movies that are free to watch. I found the TV show database to be pretty good so far and according to Jason Kilar the sites CEO it is just going to grow. It’s got everything from some great new shows like The Office and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Some old classics like Doogie Howser M.D and my favorite The A Team. Even some great cartoons like Exosquad. It’s all paid for by ads so you will have to sit through 3 commercials for a 22 minute show, which is less then a real TV show unless of course you use Tivo. The quality is really good and except for a couple of buffering incidents it runs great.
Right now there are some shows that don’t have their entire catalog up yet hopefully they will soon. The movie side of it isn’t as extensive yet but still no bad at all. Although I haven’t done it yet you can cut parts out of any show or movie and share it anywhere. If this little Hulu thing works out it could put quite dent in the DVD sales of classic TV shows.
With nothing good on actual TV right now it’s the perfect time to try Hulu and catch up on episodes you may have missed.
Check out the video after the break
Ever had your Xbox 360 struck down in the prime of it’s life by the “RED RING OF DEATH!” Well now you know who is to blame for the plague that has taken so many 360’s. I just couldn’t resist posting this video. First off a great episode of The Simpson’s ……”Let’s all go to the happiest place on earth….TIJUANA!!!!” Second nice little piece of editing. ENJOY!
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The new cartoon premieres this Saturday at 10:30 AM on Cartoon Network. Check out this week’s Cartoon Network Podcast for a preview of the cartoon, and to hear the cheesy 80’s style theme song. The animated style leans toward the popular, simple, anime style. Similar to the way ‘The Batman’ looks.
Here’s some of the cast members. Optimus Prime, Prowl, Bulkhead, Ratchet Bumblebee, Ultra Magnus, Megatron, and Starscream. Optimus Prime is still the leader of the Autobots, however, it seems Sentinal Prime is the big man on Cybertron, while Optimus Prime is merely the leader on Earth. In this cartoon Optimus Prime wields his energy axe and can transform into, not a Mac truck, but a firetruck.
Wreck-Gar will also make an appearance in the cartoon. He’ll be voiced by none other than “Weird Al” Yankovic whose song, Dare to Be Stupid, was featured in a chase scene from the 1986 film, ‘The Transformers: The Movie‘. Soundwave gets a change from his traditional alternate form as a tape deck into the hipster, square, toaster of a car, the Scion XB.
Here’s hoping this cartoon doesn’t completely suck. For more info on Transformers: Animated, see the Wikipedia here.
Roll-out!
Beany and Cecil was a cartoon series that ran from 1962 to 1967, created by Bob Clampett. He created Cecil after seeing the top half of the dinosaur swimming in the water at the end of The Lost World. The original series was a puppet show called Time for Beany, it ran from 1949 to 1954. Clampett later revived the series as an animated cartoon in the 1962.
Oh, the memories. I especially remember Dishonest John’s sinister laugh, “Nyah Ah Ah!”. Enjoy the clip and check out the wikipedia entry for more info.
Cartoon!
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