My personal experience with Hulu Desktop is that I hate it. ;) It
performs "O.K." on my dual core laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, but on my
LINK it is barely satisfactory. Playback is much smoother for me
through the browser. I also just didn't care for the way the
interface looked and operated. I'm not really 100% sure why, it just
feels un-refined to me.
For me personally my goal is to have as few control devices as
possible. I hope that someday I can have a 7" tablet with a
capacitive touchscreen (for better typing and mouse control) and a
builtin/add-on IR emitter with software that works with congruity/
concordance to get it's config from the logitech harmony website.
Obvoiusly the time for something like that at a reasonable price ($150
or less) is not quite here yet, but I think within a couple years it
would be perfectly feasible. It will probably be another 5+ years or
so for battery, solar, and displays to get to where I'd really like so
that the device doesn't ever need to be plugged in or have the
batteries recharged/replaced. I'm thinking something along the lines
of the new solar powered wireless logitech keyboard that's coming out.
The thing is charged by solar and can supposedly run for 3 months
without sun. Obviously real world usage will probably show a
diminished capacity, but it's still awesome as long as they make the
battery pack replaceable in case of eventual failure.