Pluto TV

From CordKillers 78, I saw the story that PlutoTV has signed a deal with Hulu making all their content available on their site.

Curious, I went over to the Pluto.tv website.

It's an interesting experience.  They take streaming content and turn your computer into "live TV".  Well, obviously not live, but most of live TV isn't live anyway.

What they do is give you a bunch of channels.  And each channel shows a particular show or category.

The categories are Music, News & Info, Sports, Entertainment, Comedy, Lifestyle, Tech, Art & Culture, Education, Kids.

In the entertainment category, there's a Star Trek Channel, Joss Whedon Shows Channel, 70's TV Shows, 80's TV Shows, Ellen DeGeneres, for example.  Also Conan O'Brien, Late Night TV (currently showing Tonight Show with Johnny Carson), Seinfeld, South Park, Oprah Winfrey, etc.

This is kind of what the streaming services don't do quite as well as cable TV.  When you don't know what to watch, you can mindlessly channel surf until something catches your eye.

The (big) drawback, is that you can only view what they're currently streaming.  So say you don't want to watch that episode of Star Trek they're showing.  You can just stop it and pick something else.  (Well, of course you can by switching to hulu or Netflix.)

I see it's also available as an app for iOS and Android.  So I wonder if you can now watch free hulu on your tablet this way [nope, reading the article].  It would be interesting to see if a Roku app ever comes out.