, on Amazon.com’s MP3 store. No DRM, just plain, high quality MP3 files.
I’m watching the first season of Lost on my computer and I have to say, I’m now up to 3 hours straight where I’ve only been watching instead of working and watching. This is way better than I thought. I think part of it works because the cast is big. Each episode can focus on a different back story for a different character. The writing is pretty good, too.
This is the first thing I’ve really watched from iTunes (well, except for the Lazy Sunday (iTMS link)). Gotta say, the quality is pretty good, better than I expected. It’s watchable, even at double size. The full screen presentation stinks, but that’s not surprising, honestly. I’m curious whether Front Row does anything “smarter” with the video to get a sharper full screen picture. Otherwise, on my 20″ it’s pretty much unwatchable. Of course, Evangeline Lilly would probably look as good regardless of the video quality. 
March 16th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
[...] In January, Sujal began downloading episodes off of iTunes. At the time, according to his site, he claims to have watched 18 hours within 48 hours. That may have been a comment writing weekend for me, or perhaps I was just grading. All I recall was being somewhat appalled at the fact that he was watching SO MUCH TV. Of course, I would never do that. He would call me into his office to watch it with him, and I kept saying no, that I didn’t want to watch that stupid show about people trapped on an island, a glorified Survivor. [...]