serves as a good example of incomplete content. Should you select you'll discover that you can't watch the entire movie, only clips. This is a nice feature if you want to quickly dial up a favorite movie moment, but it's also one that's likely to raise and then dash the hopes of those desiring to watch a favorite TV show or movie in its entirety.

If you pause a video you see a box that contains some useful commands, including Resume Play, Video Description, Video Navigation, Add to Queue, Closed Captioning (highlighted when captions are available), Rate, and Help. When you select Video Description you may see a Buy link, which, when clicked, sends you to Amazon.com to purchase the movie or TV season. (Here's evidence of the commercial interactivity that Hulu would like to keep for itself.)

The video looks darned good, even when displayed on a large monitor or TV screen (as would be the case for a Mac you've designed to be a media center and jacked into a TV or AV receiver).

Keyboard control is very easy and quite helpful when you use the Search field, which employs an onscreen keyboard that's as clumsy to use as any other onscreen keyboard you've ever used with a remote control. It's also nice that you can navigate the interface with a mouse. And it's wonderful that you can control Hulu Desktop from the couch with Apple's hardware remote control or an iPhone/iPod touch application that can control a Mac over a Wi-Fi connection. (I'm hoping that the iPhone app, , will be updated soon so that I can launch and control Hulu Desktop from it.)