Veoh adds Hulu content, has no official relationship with Hulu
Online video sharing site/portal Veoh has added full length television episodes to its lineup. Selected Fox and NBC shows including Family Guy, 24, and Heroes are available. But Veoh hasn't made any deals with Fox or NBC. Rather, Veoh is using the embedded video from Hulu, much the same way Hulu ripoff sites OpenHulu and TV Paradise do. The difference is that we kind of thought Veoh wanted to be the next YouTube, not the next ripoff artist.
Oh yeah, sure, Hulu makes their players embeddable, which gives anyone the ability and possibly even the right to place content on their own site. But when a startup like OpenHulu decides to clone Hulu.com it looks like a gimmick. When Veoh does the same thing, it looks like the company is too lazy to work out a real partnership with Hulu.
Of course, we probably shouldn't be surprised. This is the same company that launched VeohTV earlier this year. VeohTV is a standalone application for watching online video without a web browser. And some of that content comes directly from network web sites, even though Veoh did not get permission from those networks to include programming at launch.
[via NewTeeVee]
Oh yeah, sure, Hulu makes their players embeddable, which gives anyone the ability and possibly even the right to place content on their own site. But when a startup like OpenHulu decides to clone Hulu.com it looks like a gimmick. When Veoh does the same thing, it looks like the company is too lazy to work out a real partnership with Hulu.
Of course, we probably shouldn't be surprised. This is the same company that launched VeohTV earlier this year. VeohTV is a standalone application for watching online video without a web browser. And some of that content comes directly from network web sites, even though Veoh did not get permission from those networks to include programming at launch.
[via NewTeeVee]













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Subscribe to commentsRecord itJan 28th 2008 4:10PM
Yes,
The content is recordable for ANY FLV... and so long as it is not encrypted is watchable while offline..
hulu and veoh can be grabbed and saved to disk with Orbit...
Please people, google before you open your mouth about what is or is not possible...
And anything is possible, given the right circumstances..
Orbit rocks!
WiiManShoeMar 11th 2008 4:32PM
orbit rocks - if you have a good pc. but if you don't have a good comp or fast connection then orbit is useless
ayush saranJan 3rd 2008 6:52PM
Unfortunately you cant download the shows via the Veoh Client,
which you can do for other flash based video
NickJan 3rd 2008 6:55PM
Forgiveness, not permission. Biz dev is dead. Embrace edge distribution. Otherwise, Hulu would not make the videos embeddable.
jon burgJan 4th 2008 10:21AM
Veoh is embracing the potential of embeddable video and leveraging their technology to become a one stop shop/portal for online video. What's wrong with that?