Hulu Coming To iPad At Launch?
That iPad everyone keeps writing off seems to be getting more and more media attention. The latest being that Hulu is planned to be available at the launch of the new tablet pc. At the launch of iPad, everyone was aghast that there was no flash player integration equalling no Hulu which relies on the player for its streaming.
However if we rewind back to the launch of the iPhone, there was similar constination that YouTube was not compatible, however during the weeks leading up to launch, Apple announced that YouTube would in fact have a dedicated app built right in to the iPhone and that they had started the task of re-encoding their videos to H.264 format, which makes a lovely video on iphone. The same thing now appears to be happening with Hulu and the iPad.
The lack of Flash support on a device that seems perfect for watching videos has always been a puzzler. But it appears that Hulu is already hard at work on an iPad version of its website. Now, we don’t know if this is actually going to be a Hulu app, similar to what YouTube has on the iPhone, or if Hulu is simply switching up it’s Flash player and adding support for HTML5. The nice thing here is that Hulu has been using H.264 compression in their videos since the beginning, so the only real change that needs to be made to be iPad-compatable is to allow videos to be played outside of the Flash player, and HTML5 will do the job fine.
So all iPad lovers and followers, get drooling even more because you may well be able to watch hit tv shows rom day one. And even if its not available at the launch, you can watch tv episodes for $1 instead.
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