Microsoft Vista Media Center users have been watching from afar as Hulu support was added to Boxee and XBMC and announced for SageTV. That envy may end shortly, as just this week it was revealed that SecondRun.tv will provide a third-party application to feed Hulu, Fox, Comedy Central and other online content to Media Center. No official word on whether this will work on extenders, but my guess at this point is it will not. No word yet on timing or pricing either. Some comments from the application developer below (and that’s his preview video above):
Its a native plugin for Media Center and I really like that way it is coming together… when I first stumbled across Hulu I couldn’t believe that no-one had developed a plugin for media center yet… again… it doesn’t do just Hulu and its not a direct interface into Hulu but most of the video right now comes from Hulu… I plan on expanding it to work with all kinds of video sources but I am concentrating on getting Hulu content up and running primarily.
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