After innumerable delays, technical difficulties, rights management issues, and internal struggles over the business model and terms of service, Hulu.com is finally fully online.
The video-on-demand service, a costly but widely hyped venture of NBC/Universal, was announced to great fanfare last year, and those writers and industry insiders who got a sneak preview (although its form and delivery, at the time, were much different than they are now) announced that it would be a major event when it finally debuted; some even went as far as to call it the savior of television (and a positive boon to the movie industry as well, although the usual DRM issues ended up largely sinking that possibility). What no one anticipated -- not even Hulu's management -- was the long delays they would face in getting their site completely online and functional.
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