Internet TV wars update – Boxee regains Hulu streams. Then loses them again - By: Paddy Chang

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Update on Internet TV wars. Pre emptive strike repelled by hostile Hulu.
Streaming TV media center, Boxee which was last month banned from streaming Hulu content has found a way around the missing content problem. In a daring manouvere they let users watch streams from RSS feeds as anyone with a browser can. This allowed Boxee users to watch TV shows from Hulu online, for a while. Hulu after catching wind of the plan immediately blocked the RSS access from Boxee’s browser.

Of course it was no surprise, after the initial ban caused by content owners to Hulu demanding its removal from Boxee, they dont want it happening via the back door.
Streaming success Hulu, owned by News Corp. and NBC, which pulled its video streams from Boxee and TV.com last month at the request content providers to the site said in a statement:-
“While we stubbornly believe in this brave new world of media convergence, bumps and all. We are also steadfast in our belief that the best way to achieve our ambitious, never-ending mission of making media easier for users is to work hand in hand with content owners.”
Boxee’s CEO Avner Ronen sais in a blog post:- “Like IE, Firefox, or Google Reader, the RSS reader supports Google Video, Yahoo, YouTube and feeds from many other Web sites. While it’s not as attractive or robust as our previous Hulu application, it will additionally support Hulu’s public RSS feeds.”
He continued:- “The fact that it’s becoming easy to consume Internet video on a TV brings into question many of the industry’s business models that developed before the Web. That’s part of the reason why Hulu asked to be removed from Boxee. Our meetings over the past week weren’t able to change that. But the people in the industry ‘get it’. They are users. They read the blogs. They talk with users. They are trying to adjust to a new reality, but they need time.”
This new RSS feature wasnt just to please its Hulu missing users, there are plenty more apps coming from the new app store ‘App Box’. This will allow users locate and install new apps and plugins.
Will this be the end of Boxee trying to reclaim the missing streams? Watch this space.

Youtube has announced a bandwidth sucking statistic for January. Its traffic hit a new all time record, video views increased by an amazing 400 million views compared with December, according to comScore.
The video giant now has 43% of online video market share and further confirms its No. 1 position. Boasting 100 million unique viewers and a jaw dropping 5.9 billion views. The verage person watched 62 videos over the course of the month for an average time of around 3 1/2 mins.
With YouTube in video heaven, things arent so great for Hulu, limping along with 250.4 million views in January compared to 240.6 million in December, a rise of 4%. The report also reveals that Hulu’s unique users actually declined, down to 24.6 million in December versus 24.4 in January.
Average viewer time spent on Hulu also declined, to 79 minutes per viewer in January from 99 minutes in December. That’s also down from a peak of 119.7 minutes per viewer spent on the site in November.
MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media posted strong numbers ranking No. 2 on the comScore list and spiking to almost 552 million views in January versus its 445 million views in December. That’s a growth of more than 20 percent. Yahoo is at Number 3 with 374 million, growing more than 40 million views in one month.
Viacom Inc., owner of MTV and ComedyCentral, reported a decline with 288 million views, dropping by 3 million views when compared to December numbers.
Whatever way the numbers pan out though we all know that the future growth is in watching full TV shows and movies online so Hulu will not be too concerned with this blip. The question is though, will Youtube get the content to keep growing like the monster it has become?

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