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SubjectRe: It's over, Apple was right...
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Date08/22/2012 02:28 (08/21/2012 17:28)
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FollowupsLloyd (2h & 45m) > ed

On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:19:48 PM UTC-7, Lloyd wrote:

Lloyd
In article <38eb4fa9-4e45-4e5b-8085-8c96972c1d16@googlegroups.com>,

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Leave Hulu out of it as they have non-flash video without subscriptio=

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ed
wait, what? where?

Lloyd
=20 Pony up the $ and they'll show you.

eh? seriously, what are you talking about? what would i be ponying up the= money for, specifically? if i wanted to pony up the money, what would i b= e asking for? and how does that jive with the "without subscription" comme= nt? are you implying you buy a device or pay a one time fee or something?

At one time I checked on Hulu with a machine that didn't have Flash =20 installed at all and it worked fine. It was early on in Hulu's=20 changeover, so it was very limited.

But I've read in many places that Hulu doesn't need flash at all=20 anymore. The fact that their site won't work with a browser in iOS =20 devices or the PS3 is all about getting the bucks and nothing about the=

=20

technology.

like what places? =20

and of course it's all about the money. hulu has worked (and continues to = work with simple hacks) on a variety of devices not officially supported (h= ulu does ua checks on flash capable devices, including ps3 which can techni= cally run hulu in it's browser (and wasn't blocked before)).

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Lloyd (2h & 45m) > ed