from their FAQ:

“Is the same content on Hulu.com available on Hulu Desktop?

Generally speaking, the Hulu library on Hulu.com will be available through Hulu Desktop. While our goal is to have the same content library available through all of our distribution channels, we work together with our partners to determine availability of their content on these various channels. ”

This app is for the express purpose of doing what boxee does, but more restrictively, to please their “content providers”.

Perhaps if boxee could do the same it’d be a win. Hulu probably could have negotiated with boxee so that boxee could do the same, but they probably found it (perceivably) cheaper to build their own app. I wonder if they offshored much of the development.

j.

Boxee is indeed a powerful application, but I wonder if its online media component is slim enough to be ported to the ultimate platform-agnostic platform… a Firefox Extension? Users would simply run Firefox in fullscreen mode with the Boxee extension active, and have the best of all worlds! In the process, you’d nullify any further attempts on Hulu’s part to deny you access to their content.

After all, they’d never block Firefox… or would they? (Insert clip Alec Baldwin extending a tentacle into something he shouldn’t)…