I was quite pleased this morning as I got emailed my invite to get on to the trial of the new video hosting site, Hulu. It’s one of the many new IPTV sites, this time a joint venture of NBC and Newscorp (featuring shows like Heroes, Simpsons, Family Guy etc).

However the Hulu strapline “Watch your favourites. Anytime. Anywhere” seems to only be true if by ‘anywhere’ you mean ‘anywhere in the US’. Anyway it just got me thinking how irritating GeoIP is (i.e only showing you stuff if your in the correct area of the world). I know BBC uses it quite a lot, but when your actually on the recieving end of not being able to access content it’s really annoying - it also feels very counter to the whole “global village” concept?