YouTube is perhaps the most popular site when it comes to free videos. There are millions of clips/videos that YouTube can offer. It gives amateurs and professionals alike an equal opportunity to show off their creativity and share to everyone their creations. The downside of which is it makes it easier for users to upload videos that are copyrighted. This is the reason YouTube had been under fire for copyright issues for showing clips from MTV and other major channels.
This is where Hulu (http://www.hulu.com/) comes in. Hulu had just recently been open to the public but months before the website had been tested by select people. Looks like everything went well because the site is really good.
There are a wide variety of TV series and Movies available. The video quality is exceptional (you can put the video to full screen and the video would still look good) and the buffering is fast so no need to wait long to load the movie.
There are also options to embed the videos to your site or blog, email the video to someone or share the videos through MySpace, Digg, Facebook, etc.
The limitations for these?
1. You can not upload your own videos for this site. So the choices are a bit limited. But give it time since its just starting. More videos will be available in the future for sure.
2. Most TV shows have excerpts only except for full episodes. And some series contains 1 or 2 episodes only. But I like I said in item 1 hopefully more videos will be available in the future
2. Very dissapointing: Its only available in the US :(
2. Very dissapointing: Its only available in the US :(
Hulu is very good delivering their goal which is "...help you find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how you want it. " but I think more people would still turn into youtube if they want to search for videos.
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