Skyfire explains why you can't watch Hulu

Hulu and Skyfire nevertheless aren't playing together, only at least the video streaming site and the Windows Mobile browser are now explaining why.

Says Skyfire:

Skyfire users take been wondering why Hulu videos are currently not playing in Skyfire. The reply is unproblematic: Hulu has decided to cake you from watching Hulu videos in the Skyfire browser, as part of blocking all mobile access to Hulu, also as TV admission such as with Boxee and PlayStation.

There is nothing wrong with your Skyfire browser, and you tin can watch other videos on the web.

Equally for Hulu? Well, Skyfire, that helpful bunch, points united states to Hulu'southward reasoning.

For decades, the Idiot box/movie industry has built its business model on a windowing strategy. Content rights are granted for express time periods across specific distribution channels. For instance, a movie starts in theaters, then moves to pay-per-view and DVD, so to pay-cablevision channels, later to broadcast, and so on downwardly the line. Similarly, TV shows are available on TV outset, then in repeats, then to DVD and possibly syndication, etc.

Distribution availability across platforms — theaters vs. Telly vs. recorded media like DVDs vs. online streaming vs. mobile phones — was always implicitly or explicitly controlled in that world. Simply a few factors have made the barriers betwixt those platforms more permeable: the rise of the web, increased broadband
availability, the ease of digitizing video, and the increase in the computing power of devices like gaming consoles, gear up-elevation boxes, and mobile phones.

All the same, in the near-term, the windowing strategy is yet dominant in the business. Billions of dollars menstruum in across these different windows, and entire companies are organized effectually them. Nothing productive comes from flouting that reality (except to constabulary firms who work on the occasional lawsuit).

Hulu did say "We do, however, expect these windows to converge over time. There's no way around that." Translation: It'll happen; nosotros just take to effigy out a way to brand more money off of information technology. (OK, there may well be other licensing issues, besides, but that's inappreciably sexy, now is it?)

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