Fancast I like, but I don't quite understand. Fancast offers a ton of the same shows that Hulu does (I'm told that they're "friendly competitors"). In fact, a quick, unscientific check of shows that I was interested in on Hulu indicated that they were all available at Fancast. And, conversely, there was little, if anything, available at Fancast that I was interested in that wasn't also available at Hulu (Fancast does seem to have more full episodes of shows, but none that intrigued me). Then, very interestingly, all of the Hulu available shows I tried to watch on Fancast came up with a cute little Hulu logo.
To me, and maybe it's just me, but that's odd. That's kind of similar to CBS saying "and here's what's on NBC tonight" and then airing NBC programming rather than their own. But, the digital world is a different one, and if I had to guess I'd say that money was somehow changing hands (at least via ads or another mechanism if not straight dollars).
Even so, watching Hulu logo on Fancast would be enough to make me just go directly to Hulu, if not for one little thing — the pages for specific shows on Fancast are far better organized than on Hulu. On Fancast it's easier to tell which full episode is the most recent, and what new episodes of the series are going to air when.
Looking at all the different options and trying to decipher which show is available where, for how long, and for how much is enough to make one's head spin. In my utopian vision of the future, all episodes are available for free from one convenient site.
I'm not holding my breath.
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