For PlayOn, the answer was an HTML5 web app -- which, according to VentureBeat's Devindra Hardawar, runs every bit as well on the iPhone as many of the video streaming apps you'll find in the App Store. Install the PlayOn software on your computer, connect your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your home wifi, and you're ready to enjoy PlayOn channels like Hulu, Netflix, Revision 3, and Comedy Central.
It's not quite Netflix (which currently has an app for iPad) or Hulu (who will probably have an app soon) on your iPhone, however. Since PlayOn currently only scans your local network, you'll only be able to kick back in the comfort of your own home. Still, for those of you who can actually use Hulu, paying for PlayOn might make more sense than ponying up for Hulu Plus.
PlayOn's will run you $39.99 for year one and $19.99 for every year after that -- or you can plop down a one-time payment of $79.99. Compared to $10/month for Hulu Plus alone and adding in all the other content you'll have at your disposal, that pay-once-enjoy-forever rate doesn't seem quite so stiff.
Of course, Hulu does enjoy blocking 3rd party apps -- so they could drop the banhammer on PlayOn at any moment.
PlayOn's HTML5-powered web app brings Hulu, Netflix to the iPhone and iPad originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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