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Hulu Axes Boxee Support
Shane McGlaun (Blog) - March 9, 2009 11:42 AM
Hulu content no longer plays via Boxee video watching software
Hulu is the place for fans of old and current TV shows to go to get their video fix. From The Simpsons to The A-Team, shows from various decades are available for watching on Hulu making it a popular destination for TV fans.
The New York Times reports that content streamed from Hulu will no longer work on the latest version of the Boxee software. Boxee is a free video service that takes a range of video from the Internet and provides it in a format that can be viewed easily on a TV screen.
The issue for Hulu owners NBC and Fox was that the two companies felt viewers were using Boxee to watch the internet programs on their TVs rather than watching the programs themselves on TV where ad revenues are better. Boxee was asked to stop showing Hulu content via its application and as a work around the ability to subscribe to Hulu RSS feeds was added.
Hulu didn’t take things nicely and the same day Boxee added support for RSS feeds, Hulu outright banned the Boxee browser form viewing its video content by blocking all but approved web browsers from access.
The New York Times quotes a Boxee spokesman saying, "[The company is] looking into the situation." Boxee posted in a blog on its site saying, "We just found out that Hulu blocked the Boxee browser from accessing the Hulu site. This is a disappointing development since their RSS feeds are publicly available, and our browser, while optimized for a great 10 ft video experience, is no different in how it accesses this content than Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock, Opera or any of the other browsers out there."
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