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If you’ve been going online for awhile now, you’ve most likely heard of the entertainment site Hulu. Hulu has made quite a name for itself in the realm of displaying entire movies and TV shows (with commercials, of course) in their entirety. While the idea had been flirted with before, Hulu was the first website to really get it right from every angle. In order to finance itself, it made deals with the kinds of advertisers who could afford to pay well. And in order to keep from being sued by anyone, it sought out agreements with the content producers (including several major networks) and public domain material to fill out the site a bit.
However, Hulu does suffer from one drawback — it simply does not have that much in the way of movie content. Its primary focus appears to be TV shows, which it has in abundance. If you are looking for movies, you have only about a hundred to choose from. Among those, only around a dozen or so are of especially high quality — most of the offerings on the site are the least popular components of popular series (such as Puppetmaster) or obscure, independent films which are often of dubious quality (such as Pot Zombies). However, there is a neat alternative which is a little bit less mainstream — Veoh.
While it may just sound like a pair of letters, Veoh has a lot of shows, movies and even anime that Hulu simply does not. While the site is not nearly as well known, its content offerings are a bit more diversified, which as a consequence causes them to be more robust. While many of the individual sections may appear a bit meager, the organizational style is cleaner (focusing on genre more than “channel”). Also, considering that Hulu has absolutely no anime on it, this genre’s mere presence on Veoh is a good advertisement in itself.
