Just when you figured out you could hook the laptop up to your flatscreen and watch NetFlix and Hulu from your easy chair within arm’s reach of the fridge an internet reality check comes along and craps on your wired lifestyle. News Corp recently announced that online TV hub Hulu will start charging in 2010. It sounds like a good, “free” thing can only last so long. Of course, Hulu is already monetized—via advertising—you know, we must sit through ads to get to the shows, so this is really an additional income stream the big wigs are talking about. Forgive me for passing on the bummer, recycled news.
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