MK802 III: Hulu Plus Working!

In previous posts, I mentioned that Hulu Plus had a whitelist of devices that it would work on.  The app did not give my device a opportunity to even try to play content.  It irritates me when a media company actively prevents me from legally watching their content.  Luckily, a few different people on XDA have released modified versions of the latest Hulu app.  I don't know if they removed the whitelist check or if they just added a .* into a pattern file.  I was able to download the APK file and sideload it onto the MK802 III.  Once there, the Free Gallery was available for me to watch.

I signed up for the one week trial of Hulu Plus and was very happy to so much content available.  The app was obviously not designed for a TV screen.  Some of the text can be quite small.  The app can be misleading regarding availability.  Some content has a little black box in the icon that says "WEB ONLY".  This overlay only appears one pages where the icon is small.  If the icon is large, then it doesn't show it.  If you try to play WEB ONLY content, it will display a box saying Hulu was not able to secure the rights to play the content in this manner.  Although a little irritating and believable, I kept searching through the content.  That is when I discovered that Fox, which owns Hulu, wasn't able to secure the rights for Fox's "The Simpsons".

I am still pretty happy with the available content.  I still have no way of watching some CBS and FOX shows on the MK802 III, but I am getting closer to legally accessing 100% of the content that I watch on the MK802 III.  The video quality is no HD.  I don't have a screenshot of the video.  We will probably be keeping the Hulu Plus subscription thanks to some XDA developers.  Thanks various XDA developers for allowing me to spend money on Hulu Plus when Hulu obviously didn't want me to.

Screenshot of my Queue