Subscribers to the Hulu Plus service, Hulu’s paid subscription service, who also own a Chromecast or have one on order, will be pleased to learn that Hulu is working to bring support for Chromecast to their Android and iOS apps. Presumably Hulu will also be building in native “casting” support to their normal player similar to Netflix or YouTube on the computer. Hulu joins several other content providers lining up to support Google’s Chromecast device.
Hulu also indicated that they do not have a problem with a workaround users are currently taking advantage of, casting Hulu content via their browser tabs using the tab casting beta feature available in Chrome. Hulu representatives said they consider this to be the equivalent of plugging a PC into an HDTV via an HDMI capable.
Although initially released with native support for only a few services, Chromecast is very quickly gaining solid support from content providers. Google’s release of the Cast SDK will help developers bring new apps to consumers in quick fashion, with some private efforts already surfacing to address other shortcomings of the device, like the inability to play local content as easily as content-provider titles.
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