Is the Handheld Hulu App on iPhone the Future of Television?
NEW YORK (AP) — Hulu, the popular website with TV shows, now comes as a subscription-based application for iPhones and iPads. Although it isn’t perfect, it works well enough that it may make you wonder if the TV’s reign as the center of family life is coming to an end. Instead of gathering to turn our faces to the blue glow of the living-room set, maybe we’ll curl up, each in our own little world, with a phone or tablet in our lap. They don’t look as good as HDTVs, but we won’t have to fight over remotes any more. An iPhone held 7.5 inches from my eye looks just as big as a 46-inch TV, 10 feet away. This comes just as many of us have invested in a humungous flat-panel TV, so it doesn’t sound like good news (TV manufacturers, of course, are trying to convince you that your TV isn’t 3-D, it’s already obsolete). As a consolation, consider that Hulu and a few other online video services are now also available for Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players. It’s coming to game consoles as
