Hulu, the illegitimate offspring of Sulu and Ohura

I’m a little late to the boat on this one as Hulu isn’t all that new, but it’s only because I prefer watching my movies and TV on…well…on my TV…that I haven’t really paid it any mind.  However, thanks to the wonders of magic and my Xbox (which is part magic and part addictive chemical), I am finally able to enjoy all the heady goodness that the internets have to offer from the comfort of the ass groove in my couch.

The aforementioned magic I was referring too is actually called PlayOn.  PlayOn is basically a media server you setup on a PC on your network that will allow you to browse and play video content from Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, CNN, and ESPN on your Xbox, PS3, or other DLNA compliant device.  It’s still in beta and it’s a bit buggy with a few annoyances, e.g. you can’t fast forward since it works by doing real-time transcoding to convert the video’s into something your device is capable of viewing, but outside of that, I’m just happy it lets me do something Microsoft needs to let me do as a built in Xbox feature.

Right now, I’m using it to finally watch Arrested Development and when I’m done with that, they have all the Mr. T and Michael Knight I could possibly want!