HuluReviews 1,183

First let's me say Hulu is not user friendly, npr is it a consumer base streaming service. Hulu is a you pay self serving streaming service. They would like you to think you pay for a service to stream movies and TV, bit they ate just another marketing service who attracts people in to thinking you are buying a service for you and your family, but your not! Let's say you setting up your profile, they ask you name, age, gender. Why do they need this for TV? Has a she approprate switch why age then? Well lets say you put to days date in the set up, of will automaticlly turn switch to kid appropriate shows and look your profile so you can't even change it. Why there is a age switch? Because they want to know this info do they can collect marketing info to sell on you. So you pay them to watch content you pay for while they track your info to sell it. In a since your paying someone to track and make money on you! There is no need for this and by the way then try and change your profile OMG this app is a big pos and now I know why so many bad reviews because it makes money on commercials, data collection, and from you. What to you get a big fat headache dealing with a service you think would be designed for the user who wants to watch shows that's it, but no just another pay me for what Hulu wants to do. Anyone else think you should be getting what you pay for? I am personally sick of crOp companies that think we are all dumb and will ing to pay for this carp. Now I also think there ate many other issues with Hulu but a lot are already covered here so not going to mention, but one should see how those issues got into what I am saying and you now know why those problems exist also because they ate not a service company working to give you a product of good quality, but trick you to pay them to run there back side business selling all they can about you. Just another self serving scrappy company working on your dime.

After cutting the cable several months ago I could only get my husband to agree to do it because Hulu live is the only streaming service that offers the Philadelphia Flyers and unless you have cable or FIOS, this is the only other way to watch them on TV. That being said I was tired of paying over $280 per month for cable and internet service. I have Hulu live which runs me approximately $45 a month and I have gigabit internet service which is approximately 100 so I knocked almost half of my bill off. Great. Until you try to watch TV with Hulu live. The constant buffering, the unsync renovation of the audio to video, the games that appear to almost be played in slow motion and standard definition, not to mention cutting off the last 2 minutes and 20 seconds of the Super Bowl in which the Philadelphia Eagles won for the first and only time in franchise history! Be advised though that Hulu buys blocks of time for events like sporting matches, so if the block of time is from 8 to 10 p.m. who live will cut off at 10 p.m. even if the game you're watching is going until 10:05)

Also if your TV is not of the newest technology you will not be able to stream directly through your smart TV app to Hulu live, you can only get Hulu Plus or standard Hulu. That's why we have Roku sticks on all of our TVs even though they're only a year or two old.

Hulu live only offers approximately 40 cable channels if you're lucky. Right now though it's our only choice besides cable. So to work around all of the issues most of the time I watch through the TV apps on my Roku stick. I can log in and subscribe to most of them with my Hulu live account, but for those that hulu live does not offer, I just use one of the 27 family member's cable or dish logins who use my Netflix login haha. I don't watch a lot of television so it's not unmanageable or unlivable for me, but if you are someone who watches live TV a lot this is not going to be the best option for you

I have the the fastest speeds of internet in my area. Everything, (EVERYTHING) works at perfect speed except Hulu. Even Crunchyroll. CRUNCHYROLL! We all hate Crunchyroll! Hulu skips, jumps, loads, buffers, and then the Superbowl. Everybody i can find i turn them away from Hulu I wouldn't wish this on my worse enemy and hope the company actually goes out of business. Do not submit yourself to this crap cuz once it gets on your shoe its hard to get it off.

Hulu is great if you are just looking to watch shows on Demand. But as far as live sporting events (which is the only reason I got Hulu because Netflix doesn't offer live TV) The games always seem to lag. I am a huge soccer fan and I am trying to watch a game on FS1 but I keep getting Playback Failure. Why am I paying $54 a month for this again? If I am paying that kind of money, there shouldn't be any lag or failure to play anything. I am currently watching this game elsewhere and the stream says FS1, so if that stream is working for FS1 then I don't understand why Hulu is having trouble playing it. Would be 5 star otherwise..

I subscribed to hulu for the sole purpose of watching the last season of Grey's. I cannot get anything to load. The interface is disgracefully outdated. I have lost an hour of my life I will never get back trying to load S14E1 of Grey's and then resorting to trying later and settling on a movie, which did the same thing! Thought maybe it was the beta program. Nope! It did the exact same thing on the original site. I am so glad they offer a free trial so I didn't waste any money!

Hulu used to be somewhat decent, but their new User Interface is garbage - it takes a million clicks to get to a tv show's page and forget about trying to find a specific episode in less than 10 minutes. So cumbersome I gave up my subscription and refuse to return to their garbage service until it's improved. Every time I've complained about this to Hulu directly they have nothing other than condescending replies that basically say, "Well, tough, sorry to see you go." Never going to waste my time with them again, which is sad as I used to love them and use them daily. I even paid for the commercial free subscription, too.

It's nice to have access to some shows that aren't elsewhere, but there are a lot of commercials. Also, never use the "Put your subscription on hold" feature unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure you're going to come back at the specified time. They don't give you a reminder that you're about to start getting charged again until AFTER they charge you, and there doesn't seem to be any way to even contact customer service about asking for a refund if you want to cancel immediately.