There aren’t many good sites out there that have good video on it. There’s YouTube but that is too mainstream for this blog. Video on a site is hard to make attractive in my opinion because you must host video that the user will actually want to sit and watch, at the same time you have to make sure your server is able to handle the load of streaming videos.

The site I will be using for this blog will be http://www.hulu.com/.

This site has a very understandable layout. On the homepage you have the banner which shows popular videos, you scroll to the middle/bottom of the page and you’ll see your popular videos, popular clips, and featured videos. This draws the viewer into watching something out of boredom or coming to the site to see one thing but viewing another because it’s suggested.

They do very well on bandwidth I imagine, I’ve watched a few clips on there and they seem to download resonably fast and doesn’t lag very much. They also provide some of the videos in HD as well which is another plus since HTPC’s are becoming more and more popular these days.