Much as I like Boxee and the service it provides to my Apple TV and Mac, Hulu Desktop is a pretty slick media player. Those who've depended on Boxee in the past for Hulu on the bigger screen have an attractive alternative--and one that Hulu isn't determined to break.

In , Boxee's Avner Ronen has said that he and the Boxee team are in contact with Hulu. Now that Hulu doesn't appear to object to its content being displayed outside a Web browser, Ronen and team hope Hulu will allow them to officially support the service. I wish him luck as I like having multiple content sources available within a single application--both those on the Web as well as local sources such as my network of computers--but given those Amazon links and the potential to monetize Hulu with other commercial components, I wouldn't hold my breath.