Beginner's Guide to Watching Free TV and Movies with Hulu
10-Part Series
Molly McDonald takes a close look at hulu, the online service that lets you watch TV shows and movies online for free
. She leads us throughsigning up for a free hulu account
tofinding TV shows and movies online with hulu
, joining in with the hulu community and all steps in between.Latest Episode:
#11 / Beginner's Guide to Hulu
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#1
/ June 15, 2009 / 2:09 min.
With Hulu
, you canwatch video and TV shows online for free
. While you don't need an account to watch some of the content onHulu
, having your ownHulu account
allows you tocustomize the Hulu experience
and gives access to video content that non-account holders can't watch.
#2
/ June 16, 2009 / 1:53 min.
Hulu
has a ton offree movies, videos and TV shows
available. With the sheer amount of content on Hulu though, it pays to use theadvanced search
functionality of the site. Molly McDonald shows us how tofind exactly what we're looking for on Hulu
.
#3
/ June 17, 2009 / 2:35 min.
In addition to its reasonably powerful search that helps you sort through all of the content on Hulu
to pinpoint what you're looking for, you can alsosubscribe to your favorite shows
once you've found them. Bysubscribing to a show
, you'll never miss an episode again!
#4
/ June 18, 2009 / 2:39 min.
The Hulu player
is a powerful way towatch free TV and movies on Hulu
. It has some neat advanced features too: you can dim the lights, darkening the site so that the video player is easier to focus on, you can pop-out a video player to watch even if you navigate away from Hulu.com. You can evenembed Hulu video on your site or blog
#5
/ June 19, 2009 / 2:17 min.
Watching TV can be a social affair. We discuss yesterday's episode of a popular reality show around the water cooler, ask friends and co-workers if they saw last night's episode of a given police drama. So it is that you can find friends and have similar interactions
with them onHulu
. Molly McDonald explains.
#6
/ June 22, 2009 / 1:49 min.
Like specialty channels on cable or satellite TV service, Hulu
offers a series ofchannels
. Channels are the place to look for the content that most interests you. Inside a channel, you can filter to only see full episodes, only feature-length movies and more.Channels
are the best way to find what you want to watch on Hulu.
#7
/ June 23, 2009 / 1:49 min.
Like channel surfing on your old school TV, Hulu
offers several options for visitors who don't know exactly what they want to watch; they just know they want to watch something. The Most Popular tab shows the most watched videos of the day, the week, the month and even of all-time. With so many ways to access the world of content on Hulu, you're sure tofind something to watch
.
#8
/ June 24, 2009 / 2:11 min.
With Hulu
, you canshare a lot of information about yourself
, your interests, your favorite TV shows and movies, or you can choose to share very little. On yourprofile settings
page, you can also set how you'd like to watch video. For example, you can set Hulu to always display English language closed captions when available, you can set Hulu to remind you when a new episode of your favorite show is released and much more.
#9
/ June 25, 2009 / 1:53 min.
Hulu
keeps a log of all the shows and movies you've watched when signed into your account. You can choose to rate shows on a five-star scale to tell Hulu your favorites and least favorites.Hulu then learns about you
, compares the shows you like with the shows otherlike-minded Hulu users
have enjoyed and makes more targeted recommendations for Hulu shows you may like.
#10
/ June 26, 2009 / 1:50 min.
Whether it's a favorite genre, a favorite actor or actress, a favorite category or theme, you'll want to look at Hulu Collections
. These are onlineshow packages
that contain a common theme. For example, get Saturday Night Live episodes with a certain star or guest star, get documentaries that relate to space travel, find cartoons with a common theme and much more.
#11
/ June 26, 2009 / 16:30 min.
Molly McDonald takes a close look at hulu, the online service that lets you watch TV shows and movies online for free
. She leads us throughsigning up for a free hulu account
tofinding TV shows and movies online with hulu
, joining in with the hulu community and all steps in between.
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