My Hulu Plus subscription was short lived. There were some good times though.

At the end of the day, Hulu Plus doesn’t work for me for a few reasons:

1. Too few shows. At any given time, I’m lucky to find more than one show I’m interested in available on Hulu. For the past 4 weeks or so, I haven’t watched a single episode (mind you, I don’t have TV, so this is literally my avenue for watching almost anything).
2. Too few shows. Again. Yup, it needed to be on this list twice. Even if there are 1 or 2 shows running at a certain time of the year, that’s usually an average of about 3-6 episodes a month.
3. Ads? I don’t have much free time, and I don’t like to spend 10 minutes per episode watching ads. I will pay extra money usually if it means fewer ads.
4. Speaking of price. It’s not like Hulu is on the cheap as it is. In the past 2 months, I watched 6 episodes. That’s about $2.5/episode (and with ads). On Amazon, I can buy a full season of 13 episodes in HD for $2.08/episode, and I own that season forever to watch whenever I’d like. And there are no commercials. And it has more shows that I’m actually interested in.

I really love the idea of a subscription service like Hulu, and I think the price is about right. If they could just make it consistently worth that price, I’ll definitely become a subscriber again.