I’ll admit I’ve quite enjoyed hulu for watching tv series when I want to. It doesn’t cover everything I want to watch but its a start.

Some of the things I want to watch are provided by Discovery, and of course their web based video player is only for windows and mac os x. I might be way off base but I’d say that the average linux user is probably the same exact that would fit in their demographic. So I decided to write to them and say exactly that. Response I got was of course a standard form factor reply:

Thank you for your interest in the Move Media player. We do not offer support
for any distribution of the Linux kernel. Supported operating systems include
Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Mac OS X 10.3+.

As well, netflix has the same exact issue. Why is it that these companies who are quite large can’t seem to manage to find a way to support anyone who would want to make use of services they provide.

In a very large stretch or not depending on how you look at things. Its almost a form of segregation. Windows users away from those of alternative platforms. Obviously Hulu is able to support anyone with a very simple design and I’m sure many unix users, myself included make use of it.

So here’s hoping that this will get other people writing about it and get some change within these large companies to get rid of archaic browser/os based platform tools.