"One of the reasons Hulu caught on so quickly was the ability for users to embed full-length TV episodes on their personal pages. Hulu says that its content has been distributed on 27,000 sites and over 500,000 individual embed players."

"HD video is going to come to the Web a lot faster than most people think. (...) If you can get a better viewing experience off the Web than you can on your TV, that might just be the incentive you need to really start shifting away from TV."

"Online video distribution startup Hulu has added high-definition content, one of the first tests of the new Adobe Flash Player that was released today, which supports streaming HD."

"NBC launched its NBC Direct beta over the weekend. The service allows you to download NBC shows and view them for 48 hours, but compared with the rather elegant (though still limited) Hulu (...) NBC Direct is an overly complicated mess."

"NBC agreed at the formation of its joint venture with News Corp. that Hulu would be the exclusive online provider of both companies’ content. Hulu will then syndicate the material to other sites (...) but not (at least not yet) YouTube."