Monday, September 27, 2010

Why does CW's web site suck

OK, forgetting for a moment that CW has mostly chick tv shows... it has the occasional Gem like Nikita and Hellcats (Whats not to love about a bunch of nubile young women bouncing around for 45 minutes? But serious, when it takes 1.5 hours to watch 45 minutes, even 20 nubile bouncy women aren't enough to make anyone but the truly desperate hang around... why does their site suck so much? Did they buy all their hardware from the google garage sale? Yeash, anyone else have a bad experience with CW?

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

More miss adventures in nj transit...

Walking to the bus stop this morning, ok fine I drive to the bottom of my street then walk 20 feet to the bus stop, I managed to miss 2 busses... Then the next one was full and the bus driver declines to even slow down and give us the option of standing...

All this for a low low 230$ a month, a real bargain.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Rain + nj transit = long trip home...

Seems like for every 1/2 inch of rain that falls in ny I add a 1/2 to my commute, anyone else having a long commute tonight?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

iPad: hulu plus problems on iPad

Not sure about the rest of you but I am having a lot of trouble with hulu plus on the iPad these days. I have been trying to connect for the last couple of days and it just sits on hulu plus splash screen and I get no further.

I tried using my bb to tether to iPad on the way home one day, and the quality was weak at best. This is probably because I wasn't in 3G coverage area, and I was impressed that hulu would step down the quality of video to keep you moving along, but over the 1 hour bus ride I only managed to watch30 minutes of video, extremely frustrating.

Over al, I am not impressed with hulu plus at all, however I have tried to use netflix to complete my review of heroes back seasons, and netflix on the iPad sucks pretty bad too... Starting to wonder if my iPad is borked...

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

iPad: Hulu Plus a week in review

OK so I've been playing with Hulu plus a little more and there are some additions to my first post that I need to make.

1. Yes you can add things to your Queue as well as subscribe to a show... its kind of nice how they were seperated, but you have to visit the shows page in order to add episodes to your queue. I now have 150+ back episodes waiting for me to watch.
2. I haven't been watching it on my iPad as much, I got an iMac and have been using that ever since I put my Lazy boy in front of it... hard to beat such a large screen though I will be trying to tether watch a show tonight to see how that goes... ran out of pre-loaded content.
3. There are still commercials, and they are still really annoying... There are less commercials than if you had watched it live, but I was having internet problems the other night and Hulu was having trouble getting commercials to me, so they put up this message for 30 seconds that tells you how you need to allow them to show you videos to support the free content... but wait, I'm paying you for this...

Over all, I'd say that Hulu plus would be a good summer investment, when there is little to nothing on tv and you want to back fill your tv with old content you may have missed, but I am not sure I will stick with it for too long.. there are still shows that you can't see anymore than 5 episodes of because of Hulus contracts with the various networks, so its not an open all you can see buffet as its hyped to be, its still limited and a little lame. Still for 10$ a month, its not a terrible deal.