In the past few months I’ve checked out a couple of sites offering online television shows and movies. The sites are Fancast and Hulu. Both are in beta and use Flash players displaying limited commercials.
Fancast was launched by Comcast in partnership with Tivo and I’m sure others. It is also provides TV listings.
Hulu is fully online content oriented and has deals with many partners such as Yahoo, MySpace and AOL to provide it’s content in branded players.
Both sites have similar content offerings, this probably has to do with what shows the studios have converted to digital formats. Many classic “rerun” shows are offered, such as Bewitched, Hawaii Five-O and MacGyver. There are also new shows. A couple of times we’ve watched Fox’s Sunday night cartoon line up from the previous week after missing the broadcast. There are many shows currently running that are available.
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