Hulu with Live TV issue

[Mcoll]

Hulu wants to know my IP address based on whatever IPChicken.com says it is. The problem is that the IP addresses change all the time and I have no control over that. They limit subscribers to 4 changes/year. After that, I can no longer watch on my big screen TV and home based device, like Fire tv. But I can keep watching on mobile devices. Does anyone understand the reason for this policy? I haven’t moved anywhere in over 3 years, and the Hulu screen says I’m not home. As a paying customer, I don’t understand why the IP address changes matter to them so much. Most ISPs are dynamic with network of servers all over the place.

[maratsade]

Hulu doesn't  explain their rationale for this policy, but I've seen it discussed a lot in the Hulu community (see here, for example).  

[GabeU]

@Mcoll 

Though this won't help with the problem of the HughesNet IP changes and Hulu having a fit about it, if you use Hulu a lot you may want to look into PlayOn Cloud.  Though it's sort of a convoluted way of watching what you want, it may help alleviate that problem, as PlayOn Cloud may always use the same IP address when it's streaming your chosen items to their "cloud based DVR".  It's just an idea.  

Some of us use PlayOn Cloud for the purpose of avoiding buffering and being able to more easily use the Bonus Zone data for our streaming, but it may help to avert the IP problem, as well.  Hulu is one of the providers their service works with, and I've not seen anything mentioned about Hulu and IP addresses, so this may very well be the case.

You'd have to have a way of being able to play the files (mp4) on your TV, though.  There are various ways, and if it's a Smart TV it may very well have a USB port with which you can play the files from a flash drive.

Again, it's just an idea.