Best Buy and CinemaNow announced a wide-reaching partnership this week, but so far there’s more questions than answers about how the service will work and just how wide the reach will be.

Welcome to September here on “Seen in HD”. Just a quick show note: there will be no new show for Sept. 9 (Labor Day Week) and we’ll be back with a new show the week of Sept. 14 when Brent Evans of Geek Tonic joins us for our 2009 Fall TV Season Extravaganza.
In the news on this week’s show, Adam and Phil take a look at a recent FCC ruling that could affect TV viewing on HTPCs and why some of the early furor may have been overdone. Also in …

These rumors have already been discussed but it looks like it’s more than just content geeks and enthusiasts doing the talking.
Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney, stated recently at a technology conference held by Fortune Magazine:
"We have ample evidence both in traditional media and in new media that people are willing to pay for quality, they’re willing to pay for choice, they’re willing to pay for convenience," Iger said.
"It’s possible that Hulu will look at monetizing as well. It may be not just selling ads," he said

Iger also …

Thanks to Media Center MVP Richard Miller we get news that Hulu is negotiating to open up it’s doors to UK viewers starting this September.  The Telegraph is reporting that the service could launch with over 3,000 hours of US content and have ITV and Channel 4 as content partners.
From the Telegraph article:
A source close to the negotiations said: “Hulu is proposing to launch this September with 3,000 hours of American content, as well as material from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. It will be playing catch-up in …

It seems that people are starting to enjoy watching content online.  Video Business has published the latest Nielson report which shows that online viewing jumped 58% per user in the last year.  Turns out that online viewers consumed an average of three hours of online content in April compared to two hours and 10 minutes a year ago.
 
From the report, released on Monday:
Shorter-form video sites attracted the most users, with Google, parent of leading online-video site YouTube, attracting about 139 million unique users in April, followed by Microsoft’s 124 …

If you live in the Great White North, sites like Hulu and US networks which provide streaming video are off limits to you.  Unless you feel like going through the trouble of running through a proxy server that is.  Well now you don’t have to worry about taking those steps anymore.
CTV and Global, two of Canada’s largest broadcasters, are now offering online streaming of both Canadian and US content.  Both networks have had broadcast deals to show US shows on TV for years and they finally decided it was …