Hulu, Who knew?

I have tuned into to Hulu a number of times to find some tv shows.
It has worked reasonably well. A couple of times I had sound issues, but that MAY have been with my computer and not Hulu.

Mostly I choose to watch things on my NetFlix instant watch account since that is already paid for and commercial free. But if it is not available from NetFlix, I next go to the NBC, PBS, CBS site and watch it there. As a last result I will go to Hulu. Seems to be a fine system I have developed for myself.

I think the most thought provoking thing about the 23 Thnigs questions were the ones about how this will impact public libraries. I'd like to think that maybe we could spend less of our dough on dvds in the future as folks find other ways to watch movies, tv shows, etc.

Right now, Frisco Public checks out 10,000 dvds a month from our youth and 10,000 dvds a month from the adult services collections. So 20% of our monthly circulations are dvds. I don't see it going down soon (with the poor economy). But perhaps as technology catches up, we can find ways to direct people to downloads of video and not house the physical dvds in the library. That would be fine by me.

Plus, I want to put in a plug for Redboxes. $1 to rent a movie in a minute from a Redbox, 1 minute to return it to ANY Redbox (try THAT with a Blockbuster Video!). This is my next go-to way to see a movie that is not available from NetFlix. You can find them all over the place and they even send you a thoughtful email about your rental (where it came from, when it is due, etc) AND then sends you an email when you have returned the movie! That is very cool.