Q : What kind of programming is available at Hulu?
Hulu's mission is
to help you find and enjoy the world's premium content, when, where and how you want it. Our library includes thousands of videos, from full episodes of new and archive TV shows to full-length movies to sports games and highlights to clips. We are
always working with our content partners to deliver the most compelling selection of programming
online. Check out our
current list of content partners.
Please send all content requests to
content@hulu.com as our content acquisition team loves to hear what you are interested in seeing.
For now, Hulu is a U.S. service only. That said, our intention is to make Hulu's
growing content lineup available worldwide. This requires clearing the rights for each show or film
in each specific geography and will take time. We're encouraged by how many content providers have
already been working along these lines so that their programs can be available over the Internet to
a much larger, global audience. The Hulu team is committed to making great programming available
across the globe.
Our content availability goals are aligned with those of our users: to get as much content as possible and to keep it all up permanently. How many episodes we are able to post and how long we're able to keep them on the site depends on streaming clearances granted by our content providers. We work with them constantly to try to secure more, and they've been great about working on our behalf to reach into their vaults.
There isn't one single reason why a show might expire off of the site. Streaming clearances can be limited by any number of legal or business agreements that differ from show to show. Music clearances, impending DVD sales, syndication sales - these are just a few reasons why an episode might expire.
It's just as painful for us as it is for you when we have to expire a video as they are the heart of our business, so know that we're working hard all the time to continue to expand streaming clearances.
We currently receive closed-captioning data for some of our shows. You'll know closed captioning is available if you see the cc button to the left of the volume control in the video player window. Click the button and select the language to turn closed captioning on. We're working to add it for more of our catalog all the time. The closed-captioning data that's used for broadcast TV isn't easily translated for online use, so we're investigating alternative solutions to boost our closed-captioning coverage.
Hulu is committed to leveraging and developing innovative
technologies that deliver the best possible online video viewing
experience. To that end, the
Hulu HD gallery
sponsored by Intel is the first step in making HD quality videos
available on Hulu.com. We'll continue to evaluate our video stream sizes against broadband penetration
and the internet connection speeds of our users to find the optimal bitrates for our videos.
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