Hulu Plus launches at $7.99, refunds early adopters

I've been doing the $9.99/mo for Hulu Plus since July and I do watch more show than I did before. We only have basic cable (2-13 and a few more channels) and the expanded availability of show I can watch online (via web or PS3 and iPad) with Hulu Plus has been nice.

Of course, it would be nice to watch all Hulu shows on my PS3 and iPad, but I'm sure the expansion will happen soon enough. Also would like TBS, TNT and AMC shows like Conan and Mad Men, but again, waiting for licensing deals on those may take a while.

As for those that are looking for a better deal, BillG mentioned it above with the cable being a paid service, yet it's littered with ads. Hulu's ads are short and few, which is nothing compared to what I see on the cable channels of 4 mins of ads during show segments.

It seems the complaints here are to get the price to as cheap as it can get... even free even. Maybe the freedom of the web has spoiled us to wanting it all for gratis. I'm ok with paying and now it's $2 a month less. I'm keeping it and being patient for more shows and on more devices.

I haven't found anything on Hulu I was willing to pay for.

What I've noticed is the things I have subscriptions for have more episodes available on the web interface than through HuluPlus on my iOS devices. I'll be canceling my subscription.

Not enough content to justify the cost. I'd pay $1.99...MAYBE $2.99/mth.

Once the 360 app releases, i will consider it.

I'll signup if they can somehow gets CW on board.

I'm watching the same amount of traditional TV as I was before I got Netflix several years ago... None. Zero. Ziltch.

With Netflix streaming and Hulu.com (I don't care for the Plus service), I'm watching more shows than I was a few years ago. Of course, more than zero happens to be just 1 or 2 for me.

Get it on the new AppleTV, then we'll talk $7.99/mo. But do it fast, as once a jailbroken ATV starts running plain Hulu, there's no way I'm going to look back.

$7.99 still sounds high. But I'm also not at all clear on what $7.99 gets you.
Hulu is accessible for free on a computer, but not an iOS devices, so I understand that part of what $7.99 gets you is access to Hulu on an iOS device. That /might/ be worth a couple of bucks, but a subscription fee to access an otherwise free service is a hard pill to swallow.
So how is the content different? I get the impression that Hulu+ has more content, but I also get the impression that Hulu+ doesn't have all of the content that Hulu does which, if true, makes zero sense.
Does the Hulu app support video out?
Do you need an iOS device to get Hulu+ or can you access the "+" content from a computer?
All-in-all, I can see where you'd want Hulu on your iPad/iPhone, and I can see where you'd be willing to pay for it, but unless you're watching most of your content on your iPad, it's still a little much. The back catalog sounds great, but the most useful function of Hulu for me (and, I'm assuming, for a lot of people) is catching current shows that you've missed, which means that unless you are one of these "cord cutters," you're already either paying for access to this stuff once, or you're already getting it for free.
And Tivo lets me skip the ads.
So, ad-supported content that mirrors what I already pay for, watchable on a device that's a fraction of the size of my television. I know I'm a cheapskate, but I guess I just don't have the consumption habits that makes this make any kind of sense to me.

I fail to see what a price drop is thought to do to attract people to internet-only television. People were sitting around saying, "ya know, if they'd knock another $2 off that Hulu Plus, we can just get rid of cable"? I dropped DirecTV over a year ago, use Hulu's free version a lot, and I'm still not signing up unless there's more value than a back catalog. Charging money while still showing ads just makes Hulu a poor man's version of a cable company.