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Post subject: Wanna watch a young DeForrest Kelly?
 Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 11:24 PM
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 12:47 AM
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Damn that took me back to childhood....
I HATE those baby-talk commercials  |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 01:25 AM
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What is it with these people, again Not available to folks outside the US
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 02:03 AM
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 03:03 AM
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...and along comes the Lone Stranger with her sidekick...TANTA-MeMe....
Watch Hulu video in Australia
March 3, 2008 by Dave Earley
Filed under Media, Online, Videos
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Hulu.com icon logo
I recently posted saying it’s not possible to use the online video service, Hulu, in Australia or any country outside the US.
Well, I was wrong. Don Day at Lost Remote was kind enough to make a post about a new service called OPENhulu, where you can download a third-party application that will allow you to watch Hulu shows.
To do this, you must download Hotpot Shield, free software that makes it look like you are browsing from an IP in the United States, therefore allowing you to watch Hulu content via the OPENhulu website.
It’s not entirely foolproof. On downloading the program for use, you only receive a 10 gigabyte bandwidth limit per month to run through their system, which will limit the number of full-length shows you can watch.
You will want to have some good high-speed broadband to be able to watch Hulu’s NBC shows through OPENhulu. Trying to port video content through the Hotspot Shield has proved nigh on impossible for me, simply because of my broadband speed.
I’m on a wireless 3G internet connection, which claims speeds up to 512kbps but rarely reaches 300.
I don’t think you’re required to watch videos through the OPENhulu site. I was also able to watch videos directly at Hulu.com, but it does run ALL your internet traffic through the Hotspot Shield, so whether watching Hulu videos or not, it will slow down your entire browsing experience until you turn off the filter.
It does work though, and that’s the important thing! The videos started downloading and playing for me, even if that was happening too slowly to actually watch them. There is also no message of death informing you the video is not available in your region.
If you were asking the question, “How do I watch Hulu outside of the United States?”, here is your answer to what has likely been a painfully long search.
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I can remember when OpenHulu launched thinking that the name was nearly false advertising; essentially it provided access to Hulu content away from Hulu, but only to those in the United States. Veoh and MSN have since followed suit and provide Fox and NBC content from Hulu on their sites, but like OpenHulu it still remains IP blocked to those outside of the United States (and possibly Canada).
Web based proxies have been around for a long time, but most don’t work with video, and even those that do don’t provide decent enough bandwidth from which to view content from sites such as Hulu.
One alternative service that has been in use for business for a long time now are Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). VPN’s offer a secure pipe from where you can access the web, and in turn disguise the location of the user on the end connection.
There’s quite a few paid VPN services available, many at reasonable cost ($5-$20/ mth were a few I found on Google) but one service doing the rounds at the moment offers a VPN connection for free.
HotSpot Shield is a plugin for Windows or OS X that offers a free VPN service. There is a catch, it rather annoyingly adds a banner ad to the top of every page you visit, but at the ultimate price point of $0 most people will be able to live with it…well, at least whilst getting access to sites that were currently blocked, and the ads can be switched off on each page, but only after they have appeared.
Does it work? From Western Australia I’m currently listening to Pandora for the first time since May (still a great service.) Earlier this weekend I caught up with a new Simpsons episode, complete with ads from Hulu, then watched archival footage of the Nixon Resignation just for good measure. The only thing it didn’t work on was Joost which told me I should stop using a proxy…no matter, the blocked stuff is mostly on CBS.com anyway, and yes CBS.com works as well.
The speed wasn’t always great, but it was enough to watch video, varying between 600kbps and 1.3mbps on my 2mbps Cable connection.
I hesitated in writing this post because the more people who use services such as HotSpot Shield, the more chances we might end up killing them, or worse still Hulu and others might get smart and find ways of blocking it. Even if we lose HotSpot Shield today I’m betting given the strong demand services like this will have that others will offer VPN services as well, and hopefully free ones at that. At least I hope so, now I have Pandora again I’m really going to struggle if I’m forced to give it up again
THE TECHIES ON BOARD MAY HAVE MORE INFO...
AND...NO GMAN...COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EPISODE |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 03:14 AM
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That is actually another episode with Deforest in it. Kool!
The one I posted was called, "The Legend of Old Timers." |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 03:20 AM
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Thanks littlestar think I will give this a miss for one thing I still am only on about 300kbps speed here being rural and Australia is in the dark ages when it comes to High speed internet:(
the video will turn up somewhere:)
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 03:25 AM
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Did you ever notice how tight fitting the Long Ranger's pants are? Almost like rubberized.  |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 03:59 AM
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YES...I have noticed ...you frisky girl you....
Have YOU ever noticed how the Lone Ranger talks like a Native
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 09:42 AM
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| littlestar wrote: | YES...I have noticed ...you frisky girl you....
Have YOU ever noticed how the Lone Ranger talks like a Native
and Tonto talks like a Hispanic ? |
Yes. We've come a long way since then.... still a ways to go but we're getting there.  |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 04:53 PM
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Some chilly clips. Didn't know DeForest Smelly was in Variety Girl with Hope and Minute Maid.
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 05:49 PM
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Thanks SMB, it played.
De and Westerns weren't strangers. De fought on both sides of the O.K. Corral:
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 07:10 PM
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| Gornman wrote: | Damn that took me back to childhood....
I HATE those baby-talk commercials |
I have some recordings of some of the old radio versions of The Lone Ranger, complete with commercials. The one that impressed me the most was the introduction of a brand new cereal called.......
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