{"id":233,"date":"2009-05-30T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:29:20","slug":"hulu-boxee-temporary-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/hulu-boxee-temporary-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Desktop & Boxee: Temporary Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hulu Desktop<\/a> just came out:\u00a0 it’s a client-app (Mac and Windows) that provides a “lean back” UI for Hulu video content.\u00a0 It integrates remote control inputs, so it works well for folks plugging computers into the living room TV.<\/p>\n

I’ve written before<\/a> about the evolution of Internet TV:\u00a0 Hulu Desktop and Boxee, as client apps, are just temporary, intermediate points.\u00a0 There are few reasons (soon, no reasons) why these UIs can’t be provided through existing browser technologies, with no client install.<\/p>\n

We saw this movie with Web browsers in the mid-90s.\u00a0 As the Web took off, many groups talked themselves into a need to “control the client” by having their own Web browser.\u00a0 In some cases, there were good technical reasons:\u00a0 browsers were pretty limited, and adding small capabilities could enable big things.\u00a0 In many cases, it was just flawed strategic thinking.<\/p>\n

The Web became part of the operating system (or even has become the OS iteslf) and with increased capabilities, subsumed a lot of apps that would otherwise be client-deployed.\u00a0 These client-side TV apps feel like the last vestige of stuff to get absorbed into the browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hulu Desktop just came out:\u00a0 it’s a client-app (Mac and Windows) that provides a “lean back” UI for Hulu video content.\u00a0 It integrates remote control inputs, so it works well for folks plugging computers into the living room TV. I’ve … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}