umm no, Hulu has been doing this for awhile, i think that if they were gonna do it they would have already. Also, making up stats? really? its reall simple minded.   See 8 other replies

Theres a 99% chance Hulu will go paid content w/ no to very little advertising.   See 8 other replies

I think ads on hulu are fine. Honestly, they've got to turn a profit, and so do the producers of the shows we like to watch here. If they have more ads, they can get better quality shows that people like to watch. And if TV shows didn't make any profit, nobody would produce them. Plus, you can tell them which ads are relevant to you, and which aren't. This is just a way better model than TV- you can choose what you want to watch, whenever you want to watch it. If ads make that possible, give me ads!   See 8 other replies

Fact of the matter is, you have three options: buy the series on DVD (a feat that is becoming more and more difficult now that they've been discontinued); rely on the Syfy channel's erratic and non-linear presentation of Highlander, which seems to air at 1:00 AM on "some" nights; or, watch Highlander on Hulu, where every episode of every season is available in chronological order and in pretty good quality, and put up with commercials that are far less annoying than the ones on television.   See 8 other replies

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. You are getting to watch a show for free (Yes, FOR FREE -- I don't care if there are commercial breaks) and you're griping about it. If you don't want to watch the commercials, the DVD's are all available on Amazon. You'll pay between 20 and 30 dollars per season, though. So if you don't consider a 30 second commercial five or six times an episode to be "free" perhaps shelling out 120-180$ is more to your liking.As to the spacing of the commercials, I have noticed a bigger problem with Highlander than with other, newer shows. I'm guessing it's due to its age. Shows produced in the past 2-4 years may have been made with online viewing in mind. Those might be easier to divide into their originally intended segments. I don't know about the production process but it seems reasonable that it could be part of the problem. I'm guessing, though, that a lot of it boils down to viewers. Highlander was a good show, but it's been, what, 12 years since the finale? It won't have the viewers the newer shows get, and Hulu has finite resources that are better spent assuring the functionality of the new shows and the site as a whole. Again I'd argue that griping about it overlooks the fact that you are getting a FREE SHOW that rarely airs anywhere on TV *and* you are getting it whenever you want it.My only true complaint is that HL sometimes won't play. Hulu says it's unable to stream it "at this time". I've never had the problem with any other show. I don't care so much though. I've rewatched the entire series since I found it here. Small price to pay.   See 8 other replies

I may be wrong in this, but I am pretty sure the reason that the shows have gotten 'longer' isn't due to advertising, seeing as how Hulu pauses the show to show a commercial. If you pay attention to when the show was made, there were less commercials a decade ago, so it would stand to reason the actual show would be longer. If you add 18 and 42, you get an hour. The show didn't get longer because they added advertising. Newer shows are shorter due to the increase in advertising. Also, so far as I have noticed, especially in this show, Hulu has done a pretty good job of syncing their commercial breaks with the break already in place. In some instances, the show goes to what was an obvious commercial, and yet you watch uninterrupted.   See 8 other replies