Hulu.com on Android browser - problem

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This is not a huge problem, I'm just curious as to why it is happening.
When I go to hulu.com using the browser on my Android phone or Android box I get the "not available outside USA" message. I'm currently using Unotelly and the DNS addresses are set up on my wifi router. On my Roku I have no problems with Hulu+ and Netflix, and on my PC I do not have a problem with hulu.com. Here's the strange part: on my 2 Android devices Netflix works perfectly which indicates that Unotelly is working with those devices. The Hulu+ app works on my phone (I haven't tried it on the Android box).

I have tried the following with the 2 Android devices:
--- Turned off Location services
--- Hard rebooted both devices
--- Tried the Android browser and also Chrome
--- Entered the Unotelly DNS IP addresses in the specific wifi setup on the Android devices
--- Entered static routes in my router for the following DNS servers:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
208.67.222.222
209.244.0.3
I've confirmed that the above addresses are not reachable by pinging them.

This problem is obviously just limited to the browsers. Perhaps in Android the browsers are forced to use a certain DNS server.

Does anyone have an idea what could be happening?
 
balky said:
This is not a huge problem, I'm just curious as to why it is happening.
When I go to hulu.com using the browser on my Android phone or Android box I get the "not available outside USA" message. I'm currently using Unotelly and the DNS addresses are set up on my wifi router. On my Roku I have no problems with Hulu+ and Netflix, and on my PC I do not have a problem with hulu.com. Here's the strange part: on my 2 Android devices Netflix works perfectly which indicates that Unotelly is working with those devices. The Hulu+ app works on my phone (I haven't tried it on the Android box).

I have tried the following with the 2 Android devices:
--- Turned off Location services
--- Hard rebooted both devices
--- Tried the Android browser and also Chrome
--- Entered the Unotelly DNS IP addresses in the specific wifi setup on the Android devices
--- Entered static routes in my router for the following DNS servers:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
208.67.222.222
209.244.0.3
I've confirmed that the above addresses are not reachable by pinging them.

This problem is obviously just limited to the browsers. Perhaps in Android the browsers are forced to use a certain DNS server.

Does anyone have an idea what could be happening?
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I think your problem is that Flash (and Silverlight for that matter) aren't supported on Android
 
I use the Dolphin browser and a patched version of Adobe Flash to fix this.

Found it on the Internet.
 
lawries72 said:
I think your problem is that Flash (and Silverlight for that matter) aren't supported on Android
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I haven't got as far as running the flash. I get the message that the content is not available outside of USA.
 
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