Filed under: Humor, iTS, Video, Steve Jobs
Where the heck is last night's Lost?
Bad form, Steve. Yesterday, at the Special Event, you announced that last night's episode of Lost would be available for download today. It's 1:30 pm EST. Where the heck is it? Did you lose it?I mean it's great that we can download television now, but this is the Internets, baby! It's already up on bittorrent. Where's my iTMS copy, already?
Update: It's up now. Looks like it popped up around 4PM EST. Good, but, unfortunately, this appeared light-years behind the bittorrent copy. If Apple and the networks want this to fly, they are going to have to shorten the gap between broadcast and iTMS availability.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Gordon Werner said 1:43PM on 10-13-2005
that's because the east coast sucks ... west coast rules!
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Nick said 1:39PM on 10-13-2005
Amen!
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arkowi said 1:59PM on 10-13-2005
4 8 15 16 23 42
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kubes said 1:59PM on 10-13-2005
DUMBASS....why couldn't you wait a few days.
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C.K. Sample, III said 2:00PM on 10-13-2005
arkowi, LOL
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brian said 3:44PM on 10-13-2005
its still today for 10 more hours.
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jimmy james said 2:22PM on 10-13-2005
didn't he say 24 hours after it airs?
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Damien Barrett said 2:24PM on 10-13-2005
Maybe someone forgot to hit the execute button every 108 minutes.
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Ben said 2:27PM on 10-13-2005
thank you! been wondering the same thing! is this how it is going to be, do we have to wait till tuesday to get new TV episodes? that would suck!
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Alasdair Allan said 2:57PM on 10-13-2005
Think yourself lucky, some of us still can't download episodes at all...
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Tim Dorr said 3:03PM on 10-13-2005
Yep, just another reason why I don't think this is going to catch on that much. They have to release this stuff right at 9PM, otherwise the advantage of availability is gone.
Although, it will be interesting to see if they will skip the broadcaster and start buying shows directly from producers. Syndicated shows or perhaps even new releases exclusively on the iTVS?
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Gordon Werner said 3:08PM on 10-13-2005
I would have to add that the simple fact this is an issue completely validates the idea (apple's) of having TV shows downloadable and viewable on an iPod.
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Matt said 5:04PM on 10-13-2005
What do you mean the content must be released right at 9pm? This isn't meant as a replacement for watching "Lost" or anything else on TV - it's intended to be complimentary.
For example, I was out last night and didn't make it home until 9:20. I caught most of what happened during the episode, but I will be downloading it from iTunes later to see what I missed. I doubt I will download every episode, but this will allow me to be more flexible in where I am at 9pm Wednesday nights.
This alleviates the strain of missing an episode and being totally lost (no pun intended), which happened to me last season. I missed 2 or 3 episodes because of work, and just gave up and waited (forever) until the DVD set came out to watch "Lost". Now I don't have to do that.
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Tom said 4:24PM on 10-13-2005
Calm down people. It's up there now. Please try to keep in mind that this is a brand new service never tried before, and there are bound to be a few things that need to be ironed out. People bitching doom and gloom because the day after it opened they can't have it now, NOW!!!, are just overreacting like spoiled little kids.
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Rachel said 4:28PM on 10-13-2005
Is anyone able to actually preview-stream any of the episodes? I'm not :(
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Gordon Werner said 5:28PM on 10-13-2005
ep. 4 is now available on iTunes
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Scott said 5:54PM on 10-13-2005
Rachel,
I can't view the streaming previews either. Tried all day and night to make it work too...
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Tim Dorr said 5:50PM on 10-13-2005
"Calm down people. It's up there now. Please try to keep in mind that this is a brand new service never tried before, and there are bound to be a few things that need to be ironed out. People bitching doom and gloom because the day after it opened they can't have it now, NOW!!!, are just overreacting like spoiled little kids."
It's easy to say that, but we're still consumers. We don't need to be screwed around with on this. They have to offer a distinct advantage to encourage consumers to use the service. All it takes is getting the people that need it the tape on Wednesday instead of Thursday.
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Tom said 7:11PM on 10-13-2005
"It's easy to say that, but we're still consumers. We don't need to be screwed around with on this... All it takes is getting the people that need it the tape on Wednesday instead of Thursday."
Who exactly are these "people that need it"? If you "need" a TV show right this second and are going to pout if you don't get it, you need to get out more. They said it would be up the following day. It's been up for a few hours now. This level of critique is seriously ridiculous.
All I was saying is to give it more than 24 hours to perform flawlessly at your whim. They're undertaking something new here and there are going to be some bumps in the road. In regards to the "don't need to be screwed around with", it's not all about you, so don't take it so personally man.
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cosimoto said 7:13PM on 10-13-2005
You need to update to Quicktime 7.03 in order to view the previews...for some silly reason, downloading iTunes 6 doesn't automaticallt update Quicktime.
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