Those PS3 owners who signed up for a PlayStation Plus account just got a nice little perk: access to the Hulu Plus service that went live today. Of course, it will require an additional fee, though I’d say the $9.99 per month is pretty good value considering you can more or less cancel your cable subscription.

As for us proles who don’t have PlayStation Plus (but do have a PS3), we have to sit around for a few months while we wait for access, banging rocks together or however it is poor people fill their time.

And if you’re waiting for Hulu to launch on the Xbox 360, iPhone, or iPad? You’re going to need a lot of rocks.

[Via press release]

Hulu Plus preview now available for PlayStation Plus members is a post from: The Inquisitr

“Unfortunately, this video is not available on your platform. We apologize for any inconvenience.” Burn.

Sometime this weekend, Playstation 3 owners began reporting inability to access Hulu through the device, and receiving  the above message. Hulu was kind of all huhwha? about the whole thing, but Engadget reports that Hulu terms of service were updated on June 26th. While it was initially speculated the issues could be connected to a recent firmware update, altering a browser’s user-string that way indicates the PS3 was specifically blocked by Hulu.

But why, Hulu? Why you gotta be like that?

Way back in March, Hulu blocked the hell out of Boxee, citing consumer convenience bitching content providers. Since then, it’s been an on/off thing, spawning this Twitter feed:

While Hulu can’t bite the content-providing hand that feeds it, it’s extremely counterintuitive to provide such a service just to add arbitrary blocks making it inconvenient to use. And as Hulu hasn’t given a reason for the new lockdown, we can only speculate as to why the PS3 was selected for this round of “no content for you!”

IT World presents two theories on the matter. Theory #1- quit bringing the content to your TVs, damnit! If you’re gonna watch Hulu, it’s gonna be on your smudgy little laptop screen or not at all! (Because no one can hook computers up to TVs, that’s just crazytalk?) Theory #2- Hulu’s coming to the XBox 360, and Microsoft paid Hulu to cut off competition.

Whatever the reason is behind this latest round of early-adopter jerking-around, it’s just another example of short-sightedness regarding a changing marketplace. The same consumers that use services like Hulu are likely the ones who are already aware of how to implement a work around, like PlayOn. So they’re not really stopping anything, just pissing everyone off.

Hulu for PS3: Denied is a post from: The Inquisitr