I had the chance yesterday to sit down with Eric Feng, the CTO of Hulu, to discuss how things have gone during its private beta and where the service is heading in 2008. Here are some of the things I learned:
- Hulu currently has “several hundred thousand users” who have submitted “tens of thousands” of feedback messages.
- The public launch should come in the next couple of months, probably around the end of March.
- High definition video will be rolled out gradually over the coming year with more and more content; the company believes that 2008 will be a year when online video companies start focusing less on convenience and more on quality.
- Hulu has tripled its amount of content since private beta launch, with many episodes of shows going back to the first seasons, not just the last five that have aired on TV.
- Downloads might come in the long term, but they are not something that Hulu is focusing on currently.
- RSS feeds have been added so users can keep track of new content added to the site.
[Via TechCrunch]
I didn’t copy everything just the points that I thought were most important for people to to find out about what Hulu is going to do in the coming months.
