Now hopefully they don't start adding ads to their movies on their lower tier (I've got a free trial of that through Bing Rewards through October).

I'm pretty sure it depends on the contract they signed with the rights holder.

If you have Hulu Plus (I'm still calling it that) 99% of the movies are completely add free. Then the other 1% have adds and will only play on PC's, not other devices.

From the interview, it seems he's genuinely unaware of professional episodic TV reviewers. Which is kind of amusing, but not really that surprising.

Just a bit of context from reading the full interview that the AV Club article doesn't make completely clear: he's only seen the first episode of the first season and his comments about the second season are just based on the marketing.

Apparently The Newsroom is really popular with people in the TV/Movie industry? I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Sorry if I didn't make it clear enough, they all have original Japanese audio. The ones marked dubtitles only don't have literal subtitle translations, just ones that follow the dub. And Nausicaa has literal subs, but no option to watch it without seeing the credits for the English dub cast.

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They might have licensed it for the boxset, like how Warner licensed Dr. Strangelove for their Kubrick Blu-ray collection.

I've got the AVCHD version which burns to a dual layer DVD and plays in most Blu-ray players.

That too, but some people complained that it made sets and props look fake. From the Bloomberg article:

The Despecialized Edition online bootlegs are wonderful.

It doesn't hurt.

Kind of, yes. 35mm film captures about 4K or 5K (1080P is 2K, it's a height vs. width thing basically) and projects up to about 2K. But that's a best case scenario assuming a pristine print and ideal projection, so most of the time it would be less than that. In the case of Star Wars, while it was shot on 35mm, I…

Also, though it doesn't appear to be part of the criteria, he has dual citizenship.

I've seen this movie (it's on Criterion's Hulu channel), and while I probably liked it a bit more than Mike, I'd more or less agree with him. Even though I didn't really connect with it, if you're into singularly weird movies it probably deserves to be seen.

I was taking issue with "Sounds like Bezos/Amazon is not willing to pay for a fourth season".

I guess I didn't it clear enough, but add to everything I said "in America". Amazon's exclusivity contract has nothing to do with who can stream it in other countries. If the show survives, it will presumably stay with Netflix in Canada.

You're basing it on this I take it?

It's possible that it's like Community's syndication deal with Hulu, where it didn't make it impossible for another streaming service to pick it up, but it made it very difficult. (I'd be curious to know if Yahoo will eventually have to give those episodes up and Hulu will gain them, or if Hulu had to give up some…