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Tonight I personally lost some faith in the hard drive giant Western Digital.  I was reading an article that was talking about the new MyBook 1TB external drive.  Currently there are work-arounds for this but when you install the drive and the software that it comes with it does not allow you to share media files like MP3, WMV across your network.  These are not the only 2 extensions that are disallowed, there are actually more than 30 that are restricted.

I am not sure why Western Digital thinks it is their place to police the files and what is shared on a network.  In the future I can see this software being installed on the drive hidden from view where it will take a nice little utility that someone hacks together to remove the DRM protection.  I would be very surprised to see a drive that had DRM protection that was not removable by flashing a ROM chip or clearing a partition but it looks like that is the way of the future.

I guess I will have to stop buying Western Digital and move over to Seagate drives.  You can read more on this Wired post.

A while back I signed up for a private beta of the website Hulu.com.  Tonight I finally got the invitation e-mail with my login information.  I never have time anymore to sit down and watch my TV Shows.  I am always using my computer to watch DVD’s or movies purchased from the iTunes store.  So when I miss an episode I always had to find a way to download it and watch it.  I have a 23" Apple wide screen display so it is nice to watch movies/tv on.  The only problem I have found with some streaming sites like Netflix is that the quality is not that great when you are in full screen mode.  With Hulu.com however full screen is actually really good quality.

At Hulu, you’ll find a vast selection of premium programming across all genres and content types including hit shows, movies, clips and more.

Hulu offers current primetime shows like The Office, Prison Break, Bionic Woman, House and Bones, and episodes from TV classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Arrested Development and more. We’ve also partnered with premier content owners like E! Entertainment, FUEL TV, SciFi Network and USA Networks to add to our growing collection of premium programming.

I love the fact that now there is a way to legally watch the shows that I miss on TV.  I am not sure how long they have to wait in order to post it on their website but I am sure it is something like 8 days.  I say 8 days because most of the network sites wait that long before they post them on their video players.

Now why use Hulu.com if you can watch the TV shows on the network sites anyway?  Well I would rather use one site than have to visit 10 different network sites to watch my shows.  I cannot wait to see how well this website does.  I just hope they have the allotted bandwidth this is going to take.  Right now things seem fast and really good quality but when they bring this out of beta I do wonder how the quality will be.  Also Hulu.com also offers one feature that I love.  Take a look at the video below, this is a FULL episode of House M.D.  You also do not have to embed an entire episode, they have a way for you to just select a clip and embed just that.  So if there was something funny on a show you want to share, you can embed that 2 minute clip.

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