It's not that naive. Executives aren't from our generation, and a lot of companies are stuck in the old profit models. Look at HBO. I know many people who love watching HBO's original shows, but don't have a TV or cable. HBO is probably powerful enough to have its own online subscription service without hulu or netflix, and I'd still get it. But they are just now putting their library online, and even then, only for current subscribers to their TV service. Where is the logic in that? They're losing out on a huge market, and they don't even take in ad revenue!   See 16 other replies

Hulu makes the revenue from those ads so it is only more profitable for Hulu and not the network.. Hulu probably pays the network a flat fee to air the show so in that case the network makes the same amount of money no matter the wait they impose on hulu.. so it's in their best interest to make Hulu wait to force more people to watch it on the TV where they make a proportional amount of money based on views.. which makes sense because you will notice that popular shows that probably get good ratings on new episodes airing as reruns for the week or so after their release usually have a delay on here.. where as less popular shows or shows who's parent networks don't air them as a re-run every night for the week after release tend to be up here with a shorter delay .. there are exceptions but to think the marketing departments of the networks haven't thought about this from every angle is just naive   See 16 other replies

The problem with this theory is that it's MORE profitable to put it on hulu! At least you'd get the ad revenue, since we're FORCED to watch commercials. Even on TV, you can just record it, and if you don't have a TV like most college kids, then you end up not watching at all or pirating it for free. The new business model has to be to take in less money but more frequently, by putting stuff online with ads.   See 16 other replies

as long as you only want to watch one or 2 episodes ... megavideo does have fast loading and buffering but the buggy timed view limit is a pain in the ass   See 16 other replies

I agree with you, however, with Firefly on that list...that show got canceled because it wasn't making money it got canceled because Fox f*cked it up.   See 16 other replies

You never watched Firefly have you? It seems you are the one who sucks really bad.   See 16 other replies