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By Scott., January 4, 2010 11:16 pm

I have an HTPC running BeyondTV.  I purchased it as part of a package which included a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI Analog/Digital tuner and a Snapstream Firefly Mini remote control.  The system works great, though I’d like to see more features such as DVD playback.  My other gripe in the remote: it’s not very useful outside of BeyondTV.  Sure, I’ve seen plenty of hacks on the Internet to make it work with other HTPC applications, but I’m not interesting in jumping through a lot of hoops to make it work.  So I was kind of excited today when I learned that it works with the Hulu Desktop application, something which is officially recognized on Snapstream’s webpage for the remote.  I haven’t used Hulu before, so it was a good excuse to do so.  I’ve been using the desktop application all night with the Firefly Mini, and it works great.  It would be nice if it used the same exact buttons as in BeyondTV, but I got used to how it works pretty quickly.  Hulu is great.  I’ve watched several shows tonight with it.  It’s nice to get some additional value out of my Firefly Mini remote.