I heard all this hype about the TV show Lost. I could have cared less. Then, as a holiday present, my friend Steph sent me season one on DVD . One night I watched episode one and got hooked. Damn Steph, like I have any free time in my life. Now I have to figure out how to get home on Wed nights to see the thing ( no, I don't have a TIVO).
Then alongs comes iTunes making the shows available to buy for $1.99 the day after they broadcast. I am never home when it airs - still working. But this iTunes thing is very cool. I buy it, pay the $1.99, download it in about 10 to 20 minutes, plug my Powerbook audio into the stereo ( no, I am not cool enough to get the wireless system to broadcast to my stereo from my Mac) and watch.
Now they have a "Season Pass" where for around $12 you can get every episode that has aired and all future episodes of the show.
Man I like it when technology actually works the way its supposed to. You just know the Mac minis are really built to be media centers hooked into your TV and stereo. Download your TV shows, play them on your TV all via your Mac Mini with its remote control.
And - for what it is worth - this last episode of Lost about Hurley, one of my favorites!
A nice toy I have is a DVD recorder with a harddrive; thus you can record straight to DVD or, if you like, time a recording to harddrive and then chose to burn or delete. And you can rewatch for all Lost's little easter eggs. But the whole streaming thing might render this, if not obsolete, a heck of a lot cheaper to purchase.
Posted by: steph | May 08, 2006 at 10:02 PM
And behold, there is news:
Walt Disney Co.-ABC Television Group will offer primetime series on ABC.com for free on a two-month trial basis says The Hollywood Reporter.
Episodes of "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Commander in Chief" will be streamed online the morning after they air beginning next month. Additionally, the entire current season of "Alias" will be available for download.
The episodes will have modified VCR-like functionality, allowing for fast-forwarding -- but not through the commercials that will be embedded in each episode.
Posted by: Aubrey | April 11, 2006 at 07:51 AM
Really wish TIVO did not track my viewing habits. Hate that. The idea that an automated program kicks in in the middle of the night transmits what I watched to some central databank seems to 1984 for me.
What we really need is a seson pass to Iron Chef...
Posted by: Jeff Price | April 11, 2006 at 12:36 AM
Since I don't have cable or TiVo, all of my video entertainment is via iTunes and Netflix. There's perhaps a half-dozen shows I wish I could see on cable, and Daily Show is at the top of that list -- I love my Season Pass! The snarkiness of Jon Stewart & co., delivered to me, automatically, every morning.
Now if they'd just introduce Season Passes for Cartoon Network & Food TV -- or maybe Network Passes to download content from a whole channel -- and I'd never worry about my lack of cable again.
Posted by: TuneCore | April 10, 2006 at 03:47 PM
Heh, no. I'll google it for spoilers.
My girlfriend was a little ticked at the last episode of Lost, because she was pretty sure that entire concept plus the jumping was the direction the series finale was going to take.
Posted by: Aubrey | April 10, 2006 at 02:18 PM
My biggest concern now is that the writers can get all St Elsewhere on us - ever see the last episode of that?
Posted by: Jeff Price | April 10, 2006 at 12:43 PM
It's been a theory of mine for a quite a while that a bunch of the food in the hatch contains hallucinogenics and alluedes to the Greek myth of Persephonie. If you eat in hell, you stay in hell.
However, when it comes to Lost, theories like these come in six packs.
Posted by: Aubrey | April 10, 2006 at 11:24 AM