Comments on: Hulu on Android Foreshadows Google TV War

By: Broadcasters Block Google TV But Can’t Stop the Future: Video «

Broadcasters Block Google TV But Can’t Stop the Future: Video « — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:21:31 +0000

[...] and NBC would block Google TV devices from accessing their content online — or at least, it shouldn’t have been. What’s at stake, of course, is the $80 billion TV advertising business that fuels the [...]

By: Google TV Owners Find A Hulu Loophole : Video «

Google TV Owners Find A Hulu Loophole : Video « — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:55:59 +0000

[...] doubtful, however, that this loophole will exist for long. Users of Android-based cell phones briefly used the very same loophole to play Hulu content on their Android 2.2 handsets. Hulu quickly thwarted these efforts with [...]

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:27:59 +0000

AFAIK, the HTC Flash player is a standalone application launched by the HTC Flash Lite Plugin when you double click a flash movie. Not exactly sure how this works on 2.2 with the official player though.

When I test my Flash version @ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html it reads FL 10,1,123,404. User agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17.

When I went to check my flash version I discovered I had turned Flash off. After turning it on again I went back to Hulu and now I get the same error message as you. Sucks, I had just showed a friend it the other day :(

By: Janko Roettgers

Janko Roettgers — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:55:39 +0000

Stewart, I assumed that I had 10.1 but just checked and saw that it lists a “HTC Flash Lite plugin” as well as a “HTC Flash player”. Guess that’s Flash lite then?

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:45:02 +0000

It was working for me @ launch and up until at least a few days ago. I had no idea they were blocking mobile devices until someone tried to call bs on me. Evo does not use the default android browser, its a modified version of the Android browser by HTC or Sprint but the user agent still very clearly has mobile safari webkit Linux. Also using HTC flash lite, not 10.1 included with Android 2.2. It appears it would still be working had hey not upped the version requirement as we are getting very different errors. Are you on a 2.2 n1 with the official 10.1 flash player?

By: Janko Roettgers

Janko Roettgers — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:29:19 +0000

Stewart, really? I just tried it again, an all I get is an error message reading:

“Unfortunately Hulu is not supported on your platform. We apologize for any inconvenience.”

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:24:15 +0000

I guess I spoke to soon. I now get an error that says flash >= 10.0.22 is required.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:39:20 +0000

I can watch Hulu just fine on my Evo using the stock browser and stock flash player. No rooting, user agent switching or other hacks involved and it works great over Sprint’s 3g network.

Blocking any particular browser or user agent is stupid (ala Apple and their html5 demos that only work on macs with safari and quicktime even though other browsers have better html5 support). As long as Hulu ads are not being blocked or replaced I do not see any problems.

By: Google TV: A Video Tour

Google TV: A Video Tour — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:41:51 +0000

[...] Google said at the time that the platform would technically be capable of playing Hulu videos, but that content owners could make the decision to block it. Hulu has declined to say whether it will be available on Google TV, but has in the past tried to [...]

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:21:08 +0000

you can watch hulu on stock browser, xscope, or dolphin browsers on Android:
http://briefmobile.com/how-to-watch-hulu-on-android-2-2

HOW-TO is there ^^^