Hulu : Who Knew? Has It's Quietly Open Doors Made Them Difficult To Walk Through?

Hulu Quietly Opens Its Doors

Since the "Quietly Open Doors" of Hulu began to become a reality, has your quality reduced? Mine has.

Perhaps it's just a fluke -- a series of momentary glitches that I perhaps have just been unfortunate enough to happen upon.

Perhaps it's a bandwidth issue -- where planning for how much throughput is going to be needed to sustain the influx of new customers watching content breaks down. But then this is still a beta site. The purpose of a beta roll out is to minimize these kind of things when you have a go-live date.

Perhaps it's an unexpected spike in content-seeking customers -- when, similar to but unlike the bandwidth issue above, you have appropriately analyzed your median bandwidth needs, but when you still fall short of the mark during those times when customers' needs are for a short time greater than what you are always providing. This is another one of those things that a beta is supposed to root-out, and very likely to occur during changes in service like expanding its beta roll out.

In any of these cases, it's still, unfortunately, results in the same -- I can't watch something when I have time to participate in the beta program. I guess I, and those of you who at the same time take lunch, need to change the time I take lunch.

The things I do for testing.