Statement from boxee on the release of the Hulu app for Mac and PC today:

“For those of you working on stories about today’s launch of the Hulu desktop application, I wanted to let you know about the blog post we’ve just put up in response.

“Hulu just launched their own boxee-like application for watching Hulu content. the new downloadable application is built to be used from the couch with a remote.

“We’re glad to see they had a change of heart about bringing their service to the big screen, and we assume that this means Hulu content is coming back to boxee.
we’ve already put in a request to Hulu to work with them on bringing Hulu back to boxee, and we’ll let you know the response…

More here.