I’ve been in on the beta-testing of a new tv streaming site, hulu.com, for a few months now and have had nothing but good stuff to say about it. It’s a joint venture with NBC and Fox, and they have been adding new content to it almost constantly for the last couple months.

A number of new shows are added shortly after broadcast, like the new Terminator series, Simpsons, Family Guy, House, Bones and more. On top of that, there has been a steady stream of “classic” TV shows being added, a few of the more recent ones are Adam 12, Emergency, A-Team, and the original S.W.A.T. And yea, some of these shows are not quite the great shows I remember them as, but they are still fun to watch.

Now with the public release, there are a lot of movies available as well… over 70 full length movies at this point. Movies like Ice Age, Master & Commander, The Jerk and the newer version of Planet of the Apes. I haven’t watched any of the movies yet, so not sure of the quality, but I’m sure it wouldn’t match an actual DVD. But…. now if I’m going somewhere that I know I have net access, I don’t have to bring a DVD along to play on my laptop if I decide I want to watch a movie.

They also have a TON of clips. Some are from select scenes of different shows and movies, and yea… they have some that seem to be done as a way to promote upcoming movies and TV shows. I dunno, I haven’t watched many of the clips myself though.

The one downside is yes, they have commercials. BUT, in the shows I’ve seen to this point, they are limited in number, and usually only about 20 seconds worth at a time. That means less than three minutes of commercials in your average hour long show. Much better than regular TV.

My main hope is that the servers can handle things now that they’re open to the public. Oh yea, and they are testing HD content as well.