I agree with your criticisms of Hulu for the most part, but I think you haven’t hit the real reason that they aren’t trying to get onto TVs. Hulu purchases content from the networks. This is the same content that all the individual affiliates purchase and show. When Hulu launched the affiliates were quite mad. They’d purchased the exclusive right to show the content in their area, and the networks were stepping on that right. The networks countered that they weren’t selling the same thing to Hulu, since Hulu is showing the content on the computer; it’s different than what the affiliates are doing. If Hulu were to make a push to go to the TV every affiliate would sue their parent network for breach of contract.

The networks may get this sorted out, but not until it comes time to renegotiate contracts with the individual affiliates.

I was just about to say the same thing as arbeck!

With Hulu, it’s all about the affiliates. The local affiliates have a contract to be the sole television distributer of the networks’ content in their local area. The networks get around that contract by basically saying that Hulu doesn’t compete because Hulu is only on computer screens, not television screens. It’s a loophole.

OLED may not be dead yet. See:
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15543667

Thanks for the credit, Tom.