Miss Lost? Catch all four seasons on Xbox Live Marketplace in a few hours
Looking for all that ABC and MGM HD content on Xbox Live? You won't have to wait long, with the first three seasons of Lost up now plus the just-aired season 4 premiere (Hurley was all ZOMG!, and Benry was like Bu-bu-but...) available for purchase at 12:01 a.m. PST for 240 MS points ($3 U.S.) per episode -- just barely missing the original "later this month" promise. Due later on in February are hits like the High School Musical series and other content from the Disney Channel, and MGM's releases hit on the 18th. Mr. Brooks, the Rocky series, The Usual Suspects, Saw IV, and Michael Clayton are all coming soon in HD (if you want to call it that). Looks like someone's gearing up to take on the Apple TV, how about a price cut, or loosening up on the DRM?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bubba @ Jan 31st 2008 11:46PM
"all coming soon in HD (if you want to call it that)"
I would challenge anyone to watch Ratatouille in 720p from Xbox Live Marketplace and then argue with a straight face that they didn't just watch HD (and amazing HD at that).
I can't believe the above comment was even uttered from a site that one would think it's authors would know better.
Student Driver @ Feb 1st 2008 12:29AM
Great, another thing to slow down the Live service even more...
DeadPlasmaCell @ Feb 1st 2008 12:54AM
Nice.
Casey @ Feb 1st 2008 9:30AM
People realize that they watch this in HD for free right? Suhttp://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing .
Marshall @ Feb 1st 2008 1:46PM
$70 a season...I'll pass. Wen are the content holders going to realize that if they cut the price in half or a fourth, they would sell 10x a much content and MAKE MORE MONEY!!
You can shear a sheep many times...but $3/episode is a straight up skinning.
Marshall
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nathan @ Feb 1st 2008 11:41PM
Yeah, that's the deal: Rent the Blu Ray of season three and see the whole season for about $10, or pay $3 PER EPISODE for what is surely a cheaper delivery mechanism and lower quality.
I think it's GREAT that the content is going this way AND I think the future will work this way, but either the price-per-view has to competitive OR we need a buffet-style model (aka, Netflix streaming service, or, say, HBO).
JBDragon @ Feb 2nd 2008 12:34AM
Sorry, but there's no way in HELL I'll pay $3 per episode for LOST, or pretty much any other show! What a rip off. They shouldn't cost more then .99 cents each and in HD! Why is it that Digital Distribution seems to cost MORE then just buying the movie, or Renting it at Blockbuster where you get all the other content on the Movie Disc also. Instead they DRM infest the Movies and TV shows and charge crazy prices. No wonder people would rather just steal all this stuff.
You have people paying $2.99+ for a ring tones, and the Music Industry think they should be making even more money on ITUNES and charge more then the .99 cents a song. That to me is already a rip off also. If you make this stuff CHEAP, People will PAY FOR IT just for the simple fact that you know it's a real version and simple enough to get.
VHS movies come out and they're charging $80 for it. Few people buy it and instead just rent the movie. Prices drop down to $19.99 or cheaper and a huge amount of copies are sold and they end up making more money. Why are they still trying to figure this out??? You make it cheap and the masses will buy it. You sell it high and it'll either FAIL or be stolen and/or not sell well. You DRM infested it so it's almost not usable why buy it?
Blu-Ray is heavily DRM infested. I won't have anything to do with it. I can rip my DVD's and play them anywhere on anything. To me, that flexibility is far more valuable then the movie being in HD. HD DVD you had this flexibility also, best of both worlds, to bad the Sony Propaganda machine seems to have paid off this time. I can only hope that in the end it also goes bye, bye.
By the way, why spend $3 a episode of LOST, that's locked to the 360? You spent all the money on for all those episodes, $70 or whatever per season and you sell the console, or upgrade to the next Xbox, then what? Seems pretty DUMB when you can just buy it on DVD for cheaper without all the DRM junk and have the bonus content.