Hulu?! Anybody out there?

Since the "economic downturn" seems to be on everyone's minds lately, I ran across a nifty site that might be of interest to classmates and patrons.

Hulu is a website that contains free television content and movies. We are having more and more patrons coming in to the library saying that they no longer have cable because they cannot afford it, so our DVD circulation stats must be through the roof. My own family is thinking of doing the same. However, a lot of these same people have wireless Internet or keep their Internet access (we would since I am in school), so Hulu would be a great site. The selection is limited but growing and pretty impressive considering it's free. Combined with library subscription services such as My Media Mall and network sites which offer free episodes of some shows, a person could get along quite nicely without cable and still have some viewing pleasure options. That said, it would also be nice to ditch the television all together, but there would be major mutiny at our house!!