{"id":209676,"date":"2010-01-21T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5453719"},"modified":"2010-01-21T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T14:59:59","slug":"hulu-considering-5-monthly-fee-for-older-episodes-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209676","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Considering $5 Monthly Fee For Older Episodes [Hulu]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_500x_hulu_vs_netflix.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>We knew this day <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5387909\/hulus-free-glory-days-are-officially-numbered\">was coming<\/a>, but it may be sooner than we realized. The LA Times is reporting that Hulu is looking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-newhulu21-2010jan21,0,1871796.story\">introduce a pricing model<\/a> within the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>One plan being considered by Hulu would allow you to watch the five most recent episodes of a TV show for free, while the back catalog beyond that would require a $5\/month subscription to access. They&#8217;re looking to include at least 20 shows in the package to make it appealing to users, but of course the issue won&#8217;t be how many. It&#8217;ll be which ones.<\/p>\n<p>This all comes on the heels of Boxee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5452811\/boxee-adding-paid-content-this-summer\">announcement yesterday<\/a> of plans to charge for premium content, and Pandora&#8217;s pay service <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5262226\/pandoras-new-subscription-service-desktop-app-hq-streaming-and-no-ads\">announced in May<\/a>. Five bucks doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but it does all <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5448321\/the-subscription-war-youre-bleeding-to-death\">start to add up<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-newhulu21-2010jan21,0,1871796.story\">LA Times<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hulu-looking-at-5-monthly-subscription-fee-for-older-episodes-2010-1\">Business Insider<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9c9db06ab985834ce6dfefc8f692d170&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9c9db06ab985834ce6dfefc8f692d170&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JTPZXLZzIaM:qk-WURby_O0:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JTPZXLZzIaM:qk-WURby_O0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JTPZXLZzIaM:qk-WURby_O0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=JTPZXLZzIaM:qk-WURby_O0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JTPZXLZzIaM:qk-WURby_O0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=JTPZXLZzIaM:qk-WURby_O0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/JTPZXLZzIaM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew this day was coming, but it may be sooner than we realized. The LA Times is reporting that Hulu is looking to introduce a pricing model within the next six months. One plan being considered by Hulu would allow you to watch the five most recent episodes of a TV show for free, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}