Your Hulu Viewing Experience is About to Get Better
I watch a lot of shows on Hulu, because watching shows when The Man says you have to is for suckers. The unfortunate downside to my strategy is that many times, the Hulu viewing experience kinda blows. It has a tendency to pause and stutter, and my the less powerful of my two laptops can’t even run it full-screen. Therefore, the news that Hulu is rolling out several new improvements to its viewing software has got me jumping for joy. First up is adaptive bitrate streaming. Should your connection slow, Hulu will automatically lower the resolution (from 480p to 360p) to keep the show running smoothly. This new feature is optional, but unless you’re a huge resolution snob there’s no reason not to select it.
Also included in the new version of the video player is sound normalization that means you’ll no longer be blasted by too-loud ads, subtitle support, thumbnail support for searching an episode and even a heat map that shows you the most popular scenes. There are also a few other tweaks like a bigger screen and a few retooled controls, but to sum it up you can simply say that Hulu is now better, and it gets better today.
Source: Hulu Blog
