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iPhone/ iPod Touch-compatible Hulu coming soon?

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Mar 18, 2008 at 05:42 PM

Hulu MacRumors.com is reporting that Hulu, the joint venture between NBC and FOX, is planning an iPhone and iPod Touch compatible version of the site to be released as early as Thursday. MacRumors stresses that this is an anonymous tip, which means it is not very reliable.

An iPhone compatible site is technically feasible, because Hulu videos are based off of Apple’s H.264 video codec, which is what YouTube uses to get video onto the iPhone. BBC recently launched their iPlayer in the same fashion, so there is proof that it can be done. Making an iPhone compatible version would be a sizeable blow to iTunes, because up until now, if you wanted to take TV shows on the go, iTunes was the easiest and most obvious way to do it. If Hulu offers a free, on the go repository of all NBC, FOX and many old TV shows, iTunes might see a decrease in traffic.

The tip says that the iPhone version of Hulu will be released Thursday, so we’ll know in a couple of days.

Read [MacRumors]

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Comments
  • pie master said:

    this app is going to be awesome you will be able to watch family guy on your Ipod touch with out bying it on the Itunes store and that is what I call saving money so when the app comes out buy it or get it for free it is definitely worth it.

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