I have a confession to make. This weekend, we splurged and picked up some potato chips and Oreo cookies at the grocery store. They were real Oreos (not generic), and for the record they were absolutely delicious. Both cookies and chips are an extremely rare find in our household – neither my husband and I really watch our weight (thankfully, we are both at a healthy weight), but we usually keep all junk food out of the house and only have healthy snacks (granola bars, yogurt, etc.).
After the kid went to bed, we pulled out the junk food and decided to settle down with a movie. We went to hulu.com and decided to watch K-Pax. I wouldn’t recommend K-Pax (Jeff Bridges will always be The Dude), but we were pretty satisfied with our viewing experience.
If you haven’t checked it out, I would recommend giving it a try. Hulu is a site that has both tv shows and movies from a variety of networks and content providers. There are some great movies (Big Lebowski) as well as both new (Arrested Development) and classic (Fantasy Island, anyone?) tv shows. All of the content can be viewed for free, although there are commercials.
The video stream with Hulu was continuous, without any problems at all during the 2 hour movie. We had a Netflix subscription when they first started streaming video, and the connection was horrible (and therefore extremely annoying) most of the time. The only downside with Hulu was that the commercials got annoying in the middle of the movie, but the spots were under 30 seconds long. My husband and I agreed that it was acceptable, but only because it was free.
Have you tried Hulu? What do you think? Do you recommend any other sites that are similar in nature?
I’ve never heard of it – but I’m going to check it out now after reading your post
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Let me know what you think Jake!