Hulu.com, the new video hub owned by NBC/Universal and News Corp, is now in beta—and the word on the street (at least at the moment) is that iTunes and YouTube better look out. Offering studio-produced content like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hill Street Blues, The Office, 30 Rock, The Simpsons, House and Battlestar Galactica, Hulu is slick, intuitive and crisp. It does come complete with unskippable commercials, although they’re shorter than you’d find on television.

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