Yep, it’s looking like hulu on the Media Center (Vista and maybe 7MC) might be a reality…and as soon as tomorrow.

Yaggs over at theGreenButton has been working on a new plugin for a while now and boasts of  a Friday (tomorrow) beta release.  I haven’t paid much attention to hulu ever since it came upon the scene since there was never any serious attempts at integrating it with Media Center, but it always looked fabulous to me.  If this works out, it will be a truly fantastic addition to Media Center users.  There are a ton of TV shows and movies available on hulu, but I don’t know much about the quality of it.  I may have to give it a try this evening so I can gauge how it compares to Netflix’s Watch Now! service.

If you don’t know what hulu is, I’ll give you a quick rundown.  hulu is a website that offers commercial-backed (which is how it is free) streaming TV shows and movies from such networks as Fox, NBC, PBS, Disney and web services from the likes of AOL, MSN, Yahoo! and others.  It is available only in the U.S., so if you’re not there, it sucks to be you.

Yaggs’ plugin will put some reigns on this content and pull it inside the Media Center interface.  There is currently a solution using Boxee, but it’s not integrated and is barely a workaround.

Anyway, here is a few screenshots, curtousy of Yaggs from SecondRun.tv (official plugin site).

Networks

TV show view

Episode view

Looks great so far!  I’m looking forward to this one and you can expect a writeup with more screenshots after its release.  I’m also understanding that it does not currently support extenders, so you’ll be out of luck if your Media Center network relies on them.  He expects to fully support them, but early releases do not.

Keep an eye out for this one!