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Hulu working on subscription-based pay service

The Business of Online Video: http://bit.ly/12qDG5

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Computing | by Samuel Axon | Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:00PM | 1 comment

FOX and NBC bigwigs Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Zucker said at a conference that Hulu has always planned to incorporate a pay-per-view service into the site, while still keeping much content ad-supported and free. Murdoch said "no decisions have been made yet," but The Business of Online Video blog claims that insider sources say there is a closed, internal beta test of a subscription service for Hulu in progress.

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belari external link (7:49 PM on Fri Sep 18, 2009)

A absolutely would love to pay for hulu contend if it would be available in EU and JP. Those proxy settings just don't seem to work properly no matter what I do...

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