Anyway to use Hulu plus on roku w/o a credit card?

[Mr Tony]

I want to try out the "free week" of Huluplus on the roku but it says I have to register. Ok no biggie
Then it wants a credit card so it can bill me $8 after the free week

Anyway to try the free week THEN decide if I want to pay them $8? I'd rather do that then give them the credit card info and have to deal with them if I cancel.

 

[Teehar]

I want to try out the "free week" of Huluplus on the roku but it says I have to register. Ok no biggie
Then it wants a credit card so it can bill me $8 after the free week

Anyway to try the free week THEN decide if I want to pay them $8? I'd rather do that then give them the credit card info and have to deal with them if I cancel.

Unless there is some trick I don't know about,the credit card is required.That way if you forget to cancel they can hook ya for the $8.As I recall it was kind of a pain to get to the do not renew/cancel page as well.

 

[Mr Tony]

good to know. The only reason I wanted to try it was because WWE has their shows on HuluPlus day after. Thinking of possibly dropping Directv down (saving some money) and if the picture quality was good for $8 a month it wouldnt be bad (plus the other Hulu stuff)

But if its crap I dont want to go through the pain of cancelling and then hoping they dont charge the cc

 

[Teehar]

good to know. The only reason I wanted to try it was because WWE has their shows on HuluPlus day after. Thinking of possibly dropping Directv down (saving some money) and if the picture quality was good for $8 a month it wouldnt be bad (plus the other Hulu stuff)

But if its crap I dont want to go through the pain of cancelling and then hoping they dont charge the cc

Well don't take what I said as the gospel. I just was unable to find a way to get the free trial without a card.I can say the video quality was very good with a 6Mb connection.The thing that annoyed me the most was paying $8 plus having to endure commercials.Several days before the trial was up I made sure to cancel.

 

[pedrogarcia]

MBC Action can be streamed via Roku and they show WWE

 

[Teehar]

MBC Action can be streamed via Roku and they show WWE

Is that a private channel?Or something you have to add via playon?Also do they have next day airings like hulu+?

 

[Mr Tony]

looks like a quick google shows it was on mummybox which is no longer around

 

[Mojo Jojo]

I also do not understand why a credit card is needed for a free trial.

There is also a free one month offer from Scott Shared Values: https://www.scottbrand.com/offer/huluplus?

 

[Mr Tony]

I also do not understand why a credit card is needed for a free trial.

Teehar explained it the best....they want you to forget and get billed

I just wish you could use it for a week then it shuts off unless you pay. Simple as that

 

[Mojo Jojo]

There is a way to get the free version of Hulu through Plex.

 

[Blindowl1234]

I read somewhere that the difference between Hulu and Hulu plus is that the "Plus" has more episodes of any given show found on Hulu. I signed up with credit card and canceled the next day. The shows we wanted weren't on Hulu the next day after airing.
I was looking for some shows from Nat Geo, History channel etc the day after they aired. I think I found them elsewhere... I Tunes? or Amazon maybe it was...anyway at $1.99 or more an episode I said forget it.

 

[Blindowl1234]

Hulu free version is available thru Play On as well...haven't looked at which is cheaper Playon or Plex. Since my computer is tied thru my Tv I can easily watch Hulu that way too.

 

[Mr Tony]

I signed up with credit card and canceled the next day. The shows we wanted weren't on Hulu the next day after airing.

was it hard to cancel and did they still bill you after the fact?

 

[Teehar]

It was..trying to think of the best word to describe cancelling,cumbersome at best to get to the actual cancel page.Comparing it to cancelling say netflix,there was no comparison.Once I got it cancelled I received an email to verify and wasn't charged at the end of the trial.Maybe they have changed the web pages and links since I had it,making it easier to navigate to the cancel page.I sure hope so.

 

[Mr Tony]

interesting...I found where it says how to cancel
http://www.hulu.com/support/article/203239

this part is interetsing
If you cancel your Hulu Plus subscription during a free trial, your subscription will end immediately.

 

[mike123abc]

interesting...I found where it says how to cancel
http://www.hulu.com/support/article/203239

this part is interetsing
If you cancel your Hulu Plus subscription during a free trial, your subscription will end immediately.

They want you to wait until the last minute then fall asleep and wake up 1 second too late...

 

[Mr Tony]

interesting...you can also use paypal too. That might be the work around.....I have money sitting in the paypal account already

 

[Mr Tony]

well I signed up for the week trial...used my paypal account

 

[Teehar]

Heck you should have went for the free month.

 

[PopcornNMore]

Well like I said in another thread "The Neighbors" in HD on Hulu Plus looked better than the same HD program on Dish Network.