The Hulu Experience

Last week, while I was hanging out with my family on vacation at my dad’s cabin, I had my first Hulu experience. The kids had gone to bed and my brother asked if we wanted to watch a TV show, and to let him know what we were interested in. Knowing that the cabin didn’t have video on demand, I wondered how he was going to pull this off. My brother promptly pulled out his laptop, plugged a VGA cord into the 32″ LCD TV, connected some external speakers to his laptop, and selected the latest episode of The Office. The experience was flawless.

My brother explained that he didn’t have cable in his campus apartment as he was trying to save money during his four year JD/MBA program. Instead, he used his laptop and university-supplied internet to watch shows on Hulu. He doesn’t miss cable TV at all and has been doing this for the last few semesters.

This Hulu experience, my first, is a simple glimpse into yet another way the internet is going to profoundly change our lives, one screen at a time.