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Hulu on the IPad?
Apr 1st
Hulu the free online video hub has some interesting things on the horizon, according to the NYT.
Hulu has made it’s online video site successful, and brought free tv and movies to the masses. four people at Hulu said that it may be bringing out an app for the IPad. The ability to watch the tv shows i missed or my favorite shows and movies on my shiny new IPad just makes my mouth water.
But the companies that supply content for hulu.com, want them to bring in more advertising revenue and charge subscriptions. So they can get larger kickbacks i’m sure. Hulu’s Mr Kilar said. “We’re certainly open to subscriptions as a complement to an ad-supported model.”
People briefed on Hulu’s plan said they may test the subscription service with the IPad app, but had no information on when it would be available.
My opinion is that the free service is great, its no worse than watching tv with commercials and it brings in revenue for hulu and its content suppliers. But if they wanted to add a subscription service for premium shows and new movies that would be fine. Let people opt in or out of the premium services, but with a paid premium plan, I would expect NO ADS. If they try to change Hulu to be a subscription service only, their content suppliers may find the Hulu audience hit all time lows. I for one have a netflix subscription and the disc for my Wii, so i do not need another subscription for online video, and would probably abandon Hulu if it chose this path.
Let me know what you think.
IPads are on their way to waiting customers!
Mar 30th
Last weekend was a huge rush of people posting that their IPad orders were “Prepared for shipment”. So I hurried over to the Apple online store to check my order status, and low and behold, mine was “prepared for shipment” WOO HOO! By Monday my order was updated as shipped with tracking numbers linked to the UPS tracking page, but much to my disapointment, no information yet. So I waited, and by Tuesday morning I had the information I was looking for. My Ipad oprder had an origin scan from SHENZHEN, CN, What? I expected Apple to have the IPads stocked in the states ready for disbursment, but no they are coming directly from China. Apple is shipping them using an express shipping service through UPS that id designed for large shipments of time sensitive materials.
But don’t get too excited about getting your IPad before launch date because I’m sure Apple has made sure to have them held and delivered on Saturday April 3rd.
Check back daily and I will post every update to my IPad shipment for everyone to follow.
Just what the iPad ordered
Mar 13th
I have this problem, I have 4,000 plus tracks of music and want to get a 16gb iPad. I can tell you it won’t fit there! What if I had lala installed on my server? I could just just use lala.com, check my recent plays list, but then it will interfere with other down load access. I began to think, hey I have this thing the internet, maybe someone has had this problem before. I did some looking and found Sockso, an open source java based music server that gives you search, play list and browsing of your collection. It is simple to setup and use. I had it in place and serving up my collection in 10 minutes. I set up a test at work and forced it to only allow registered users to access my collection.
One of the features I find brilliant is that ability to select how you will play your music. On your local web page you can select from seven different ways to play including a pop-out flash player or a play list download for your default player. Sockso can also change the encoding of your must, if needed.
I think this is the answer to using your music at home, or remotely if you open a path through your firewall, on your iPad or netbook.
IPad will be available April 3rd
Mar 5th
Apple announced that the IPad will be available to purchase in stores on April 3rd. But if you want to get things rolling than on March 12th you will be able to pre-order your IPad online or in Apple Stores.
Is the Apple IPad for you?
Jan 28th
I would like to see a discussion started here about whether or not you think the IPad is the device for you or not. Let us know what you think and why or why not.
I have posted a comment on the last post with my thoughts. I feel that the IPad would make a good addition for me, for content consumption. I do not feel that it will replace my netbook since I sometimes need to run multiple applications at once and typing on the IPad for lengthy posts or documents would be irritating, and uncomfortable. As for listening to music that’s what my Iphone and Ipod are for. But first thing in the morning reading the paper and kicking back surfing the web or checking facebook on the couch, The Ipad would be great. Watching movies in 720p would be nice as well. I also would make good use of the e-reader built in. So all in all I like it, it wont replace any devices i have now, but would be a great addition to my arsenal for easy and fast access to the content that I am hungry for at the moment.
IPad shipment update 4/2/10
Apr 2nd
Posted by Jeremiah in commentary
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Ok so my IPads show that they are now in Louisville, KY again and the notes are as follows.
SHIPMENT IS HELD TO VERIFY COMMODITY DESCRIPTION WITH THE CUSTOMER FOR CORRECT CLASSIFICATION / BROKERAGE RELEASED SHIPMENT. SHIPMENT IS SUBMITTED TO CLEARING AGENCY FOR FURTHER CLEARANCE
I am itching in anticipation of saturday. If you haven’t yet check out the Itunes store, thyere are at least 15 pages of IPad apps up as of last night.
Check back for more updates.