

This means you will be able to share the downloaded Hulu content with other devices and watch your favorite movies and TV shows anytime without the fear of expiry dates. The press release goes out of its way to mention Family Guy, Desperate Housewives, This is Us, How I Met Your Mother, and ER, and Hulu Originals as content that can be downloaded for offline viewing. Hulu Downloader for Windows and macOS is specially designed to download shows on Hulu to MP4/MKV in up to 1080p quality. Hulu customers who use the iOS app will now be able to download movies and TV shows for offline viewing, but the Android community will have to wait for an app update that will be coming "soon." It looks to be similar to Netflix's initial rollout where only some shows are currently available for download. As the saying goes though, better late than never. Netflix has even had the time to add an algorithm to the feature that will automatically download new episodes of your favorite TV shows. Netflix has had offline downloads available in its Android application since the tail end of 2016.

It's great to see Hulu finally playing catch-up with the Android TV application when it comes to feature-parity, but the company is behind when compared to the competition as well. The update also came with Hulu's live TV feature that was unavailable to Android TV users in the past. Earlier this year Hulu updated its Android TV application to include a new couch-friendly user interface.
