- published: 07 Feb 2014
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Hulu is a website and over-the-top (OTT) subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, Nickelodeon, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in Japan and the United States and its overseas territories. Hulu provides video in Flash Video format, including many films and shows that are available in 288p, 360p, 480p, and in some cases, 720 HD. Hulu also provides web syndication services for other websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Comcast's xfinityTV.
Hulu is a joint venture of NBCUniversal (Comcast/General Electric),Fox Entertainment Group (News Corp) and Disney-ABC Television Group (The Walt Disney Company), with funding by Providence Equity Partners, the owner of Newport Television, which made a US$100 million equity investment and received a 10% stake.
The name Hulu comes from two Mandarin Chinese words, hulu (simplified Chinese: 葫芦; traditional Chinese: 葫蘆; pinyin: húlú; Wade–Giles: hu-lu) "calabash, bottle gourd" and hulu (simplified Chinese: 互录; traditional Chinese: 互錄; pinyin: hùlù; Wade–Giles: hu-lu) "interactive recording". The company blog explains:
Actors: Lei Wang (actor), Yongzuang Hua (director), Bing Peng (actor), Zheng Luo (director),
Genres: Family,Dear Diary,
I was standing in a bus stop today,
and they must have known I wanted to be a model,
so I'm gonna call them tomorrow.
Won't be long before I'm in all the big rock videos.
The most incredible thing happened to me in Odella last weekend.
That's why I'm writing.....you see, I went to see....
Hey, wow, what's going on up there?
Did you have dinner yet?
Who wants dinner when you can get a god damn
good dick up your ass? (laugh)
Oh, I need you girl.
Huh?
Oh, I need you girl.
You need me, boy?
Yeah, yeah....I need you too.
Huh?
I need you too, baby.....
Dear Diary,
I can't write alot.
Johnnie's in the bathroom.
I met him in Shasta tonight, and he's just incredible.
He's got this long, straight black hair,
and he wears all this silver jewlery, velvet pants, black boots, etc.
(kids singing)
I love your big muscles.
It's a lickable pussy.
Hi baby, how you doing?
Well, all y'all want some pussy?