Hulu’s New ‘Lean-Back Experience’

Hulu is offering a new TV-like experience in a downloadable application that mimics a TV interface and aims to give viewers the lean-back experience they’ve enjoyed from traditional television for decades, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service.

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Yet it’s still not ready for real TV viewing. For now it’s decidedly a PC experience.

Hulu began offering the application for download Thursday.