trinityvixen | Your business plan: please to be explaining?

If Netflix has a bunch of these on streaming already, how can having these titles on streaming make Hulu Plus worth $8/month?

And not to join in with the wouldn't-see-a-movie-with-subtitles-if-it-were-a-porno crowd, but those titles hardly appeal. Also, if, indeed, Robocop is on this Criterion collection, why do you need to stream it? You should own it already, like any civilized person of taste who was ever exposed to 1980s ultraviolent movies. Du-uh.

I'm not really knocking Hulu. Their free service does all right by me. I'm still so many, many episodes behind things, though, that I haven't made use of them much lately. (The closer I get to grad school application deadline time, the further behind I'll get, I should imagine.) I just don't see the advantage to paying them money to still be bombarded with ads. Much as I like Netflix, I'm beginning to lose patience with their rental-only copies that skip all the special features but leave on all the ads that play--unskippable most of the time--at the start of the DVD. I fail to see why I should add Hulu Plus, with its ads and its fee, to that aggravation.