Christina Linehan
Erica Longoria
Mckenzie Clark
1.At the beginning of the episode of the Saturday Night Live Episode with John McCain, there was a commercial before the video uploaded for a black berry from Verison Wireless. It was very short and to the point. While the episode was playing, a still advertisement of Verizon remained at the top of the program. It was presented to me when I first logged on to the site. When I watched it it was exactly as if I was to watch it on the television. It displayed most popoular channels with an thumbnail of the episode and title. There were not advertisers in the main screen like there are with other websites. There were not any user comments or ads besides the one verizon advertisement that I saw. Also, there werent any pop ups which was nice. We also found all together that the overall quality of the video clip was very nice and not distorted like some are through youtube. The overall experience with hulu proved to be just like watching tv, great quality matched with easy "clip searching".
2. Finding a complete episode of a current show on YouTube was not too difficult as long as one is willing to watch it in separate snippets. The episode we chose for this portion of the blog was Survivor (CBS), as it has a loyal following of viewers. The “complete” episode that we found was Episode 9 and was posted by a fan that actually has a “channel” on YouTube. Clicking on the fan’s name allowed us to find their channel, which in our opinion made it easier to see the episode (since the episode chunks were arranged in sequential order).
On the main YouTube page, this episode is consolidated into a playlist and the format of the page does not look any different than the normal YouTube experience. However, the look of the fan’s channel page has a custom design that is similar to something one would see on a MySpace page.3.After reviewing both sites we decided there are some major differences between Hulu and YouTube, but that they are good differences. Hulu is much cleaner and easier on your eyes, where as YouTube has stuff all over the place. However, these sites were built with different appraoches in mind. YouTube was made so people could "broadcast themselves" and it has worked wonderfully! People from all over the globe are doing so and others from all over the globe are watching them. Hulu, on the other hand, was basically created to show full length TV episodes and movies. Hulu is doing a great job at that; it is easy to get on, find what you want to watch, and watch it. Clean, fast, and easy. YouTube trying to mimmic Hulu in this manner could definitely help them out and bring them back up. However, lots of YouTube becoming more like Hulu is going to involve cleaning up the site and the content that is available...and I know most people do not really want that. Many have been going on YouTube to find funny clips and much, much more for a while now and if all of that was gone it just would not be the same old YouTube. Adding full length movies television episodes to YouTube sounds like it would be great, I just hope in the process of changing YouTube we do not loose lots of what we love about the site.
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2 comments:
This group really researched and picked two good and relate able shows to the audience. Both clips were good examples of how the industry controls what we see as well as what they want the industry to publish as well. They made that clear in their writing and gave good examples with their videos.
Jenna Condit
This group did a really good job of choosing their videos, they were both very interesting and fun to watch. Although I have to say that I definately like Hulu.com way better. It provides a full lenth episode, while youtube.com usually only provides clips of episodes. Hulu.com is also a whole lot clearer in my opinion, while youtube.com seems to show with lesser quality. There is one thing that I like about youtube.com though. I like how they let you post anything you want others to see on here. So while youtube.com doesn't offer full episodes, it does offer a bigger variety of videos. They are both great ways to access videos on the internet, it just depends on what you are looking for.
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