HULU to A/V system via Apple TV users?

[highfigh]

Someone I know wants to watch HULU using an Apple TV. Is it as simple as just connecting the Apple TV to the system, adding it to the network and connecting to HULU? I would think a shortcut would be the easy way to open it, right? They have a MacBook that will control it.

 

[tbergman]

The last time I checked, the easiest way to get Hulu to AppleTV was boxee but Hulu has blocked it. There are people working on it for XBMC, but I think that isn't going very well either. There is a good article here about how Hulu is managing to ruin itself by not letting me watch Hulu on anything but my laptop.

 

[soloz2]

that's too bad. I'm in the market for a simple to use streaming box for my shared music and to stream online video.

 

[highfigh]

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Apple wanted to charge somehting for HULU to work on their hardware. I sell ReQuest music servers and one of the things they do is store a .wav, FLAC or MP3 ( all four bit rates) copy of the files for regular listening as well as a second MP3 copy for synching with an iPod and for remote streaming. This also comes with an application called NetSynch for iTunes, which was originally supposed to work with Apple computers and it would be free, just like it is for PCs. However, at some point between announcing NetSynch and releasing it, Apple decided that they wanted to charge for this and now, ReQuest has to charge a licensing fee.