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ABC Launches Full Episode Streaming
Cjattwood writes "ABC.com has launched their free online episode streaming service earlier today. Shows available include Lost and Alias among others, and are available to watch for free, albeit with ads and commercials. It works pretty well so far, although no Linux support yet as it requires Flash 8." The first episode of Lost on there is a clip show. You can skip around to a segment of the show, but are forced through a commercial before you play. The quality is approximately what you would expect from flash video.
Now, all they need is something good to watch.
Didn't Apple make a big deal about offering episodes of Lost on their iTunes Video/Music store?
I can't imagine they will be very happy with ABC direct-releasing similarly-poor-quality videos for free. I smell another frivolous lawsuit...
"Or, better yet, Trippin' the Rift."
I see I'm not the only one who wants some hot neked triple-boobed T'nuk action!
"Only viewers within the United States can watch these full-length episodes"
I'm being discriminated against, just because I'm in a different country! That's geographicist, that is! Can I sue?
Yes, yes you are.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
People wouldn't be so adverse to the commercials if they weren't so god damn annoying.. and depressing, and all of those commercials that try to make the viewer feel guilty about something ie. Losing your hair you sad old man? too much fat around your waist fatso?? can't get your penis standing tall??? all the anti-smoking ads showing old and dying people talking like robots, drunk driving ads to make you feel ashamed about havin a little fun, anti-drug ads to make parents feel guilty about their teenage sons smoking some pot (you're an irresponsible parent! gimme a break eh)...
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then all those god damn pharma-ads with warnings about the side-effects that cause erectile dysfunction/bladder control issues/possibility of stroke and heart attack.. nursing mothers shouldn't inhale this stuff/etc etc
TV is a fucking mess lol.
Try this for a commercial you network bitches, I might even watch it.
"Hi, I'm Jake and I'd like you to try our new shampoo. it works well and controls dandruff" -> camera closeup on shampoo bottle.
End of commercial. thank you very fucking much.
Doesn't anyone think of the canucks????
No. No one thinks of Canada, positively or negatively. And, I suspect that is what pisses you off and gives you that inferiority complex.
That said, I really miss Hockey Night in Canada & Don Cherry and a dollar buys a lot of entertainment in a Canadian strip bars.
Bah, Jack Bauer has the geeks at CTU like Chloe and Edgar (well used to). :P
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Jack Bauer is sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.
My friend Mark said that he saw Jack Bauer totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So when is Fox going to get with it? There seems to be a hill or something between me and the local Fox station, and I'm not going to get cable just to watch the Simpsons.
Marshall rocks as a computer/technical geek and is funny. :) He even uses Linux, KDE, XMMS, and xmame. . .
Call me back when we get a bash script and cdplay. Until then he's just poser.
KFG
Aw, count me out then - I can handle one or the other, but not both!
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Sharks. With Lasers.