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Where Tivo fails, the internet prevails

Wednesday night, Edie and I both went to bed at 10 PM, confident in the knowledge we were recording the last hour of Lost to watch Thursday evening. So it came as quite a surprise, when we sat down this evening to watch the last hour of Lost, to discover it was not in our recorded programs list.

I was devasted! What could possibly be worse, then not seeing the season finally of Lost? Well, OK, now I can think of a lot of things worse, but at that moment, it was at the top of the list.

Fortunately ABC had the foresight to load the last hour on the internet. We had to download some free software, and it took a minute or two to figure everything out, but in the end it was a relatively painless endeavor.  And there were only limited commercials.

Thank you ABC for turning a potential devastating situation, into a happy ending!
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Becky said…
Wow, sounds frightening. I've never seen Lost, but it must be pretty good.
12:23 AM
Mark VanKirk said…
I have it on my TIVO and I can always burn you a DVD if you have a future failure.
4:29 AM
Marc said…
The only thing I'm wondering now is what direction next season is going to take, since it appears they've been rescued.

At least that's my understanding.
8:26 AM
Mark VanKirk said…
Well, I heard that they have signed on for 3 more seasons and the show will definately end and complete the story at the end of the 3rd remaining season.

Did you hear that?
3:32 AM
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