How can I watch all episodes of Lost: Season 6 online legally and free/cheap?

June 20, 2010 1:14 PM

How can I watch all episodes of Lost: Season 6 online legally and free/cheap?

I've just finished watching Lost: Seasons 1-5 on Netflix through their online streaming feature. Now, I want to watch Season 6 and Netflix doesn't have it available to stream live.

I checked abc.com, but they've only got 7 episodes of Season 6. I can get it on iTunes, but I'm not willing to pay $36/season or $1.99/episode quite yet... there's got to be a better option. If it makes a difference, I have a Mac. I don't mind having to stop to watch commercials either. Thanks for any ideas.

posted by designbyme to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)

Doesn't Hulu.com usually have the recent episodes of TV shows?
posted by koeselitz at 1:21 PM on June 20, 2010

Yeah, over there it says they have the last 5 episodes of season 6. So that's some of it, anyway...
posted by koeselitz at 1:23 PM on June 20, 2010

Response by poster: abc.com has those too. I had actually checked Hulu, just didn't mention it in my post. I'd like to start with the beginning of Season 6 though, so I guess the real question is where can I get the first 10 or so episodes of Season 6?

Thanks koeselitz
posted by designbyme at 1:26 PM on June 20, 2010

You can get them at casttv.com. Not sure if casttv is available everywhere. It's actually from Megavideo, which only allows around 1.25 hours of watching per 3 hours. So, not so good for a marathon, but good if you don't mind seeing them one or two per day.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 1:37 PM on June 20, 2010

Megavideo pretty much doesn't work, considering that the poster stipulated doing this legally.

Also, I just sort of assume from that that she also probably meant to imply that she wanted to do this in a non-sleazy, malware-and-evil-weirdness-free sort of way. Megavideo really doesn't fit that bill.
posted by koeselitz at 1:52 PM on June 20, 2010

Oh, sorry - didn't know Megavideo was illegal. There are annoying sleazy popups, but otherwise casttv seemed to be on the up and up. Guess not.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 1:54 PM on June 20, 2010

I can get it on iTunes, but I'm not willing to pay $36/season

That's the only way you're going to be able to get if via your legal stipulation. Look at the numbers:

ABC: 7 episodes + ($1.99 * 11 remaining episodes) = $21
Hulu: 5 episodes + ($1.99 * 13 remaining episodes) = $26

Per episode cost:
ABC: $1.17
Hulu: $1.44
iTunes: $1.99

I would go with the ABC route and then pay for the last episode because there's 1,294 commercial breaks that I'd gladly pay $2 to skip. Well no, actually I'd probably just go to EZTV.it and be done with it.
posted by geoff. at 2:08 PM on June 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

That's cool – it doesn't exactly advertise that fact. Megavideo is actually a branch of Megaupload.
posted by koeselitz at 2:09 PM on June 20, 2010

Find someone who Tivo'd or DVR'd the season on a season pass and kept them. Go over to their place and watch. :)
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 3:01 PM on June 20, 2010

Odd. I had missed the first 2/3 of the season, ABC.com only had the most recent episodes. I was just about to buy the earlier ones on iTunes--this was about three weeks before the finale--when I checked ABC again and suddenly they had the entire season up. I spent two days watching eps back to back. Now I see that it's reverted to the last 7 eps again. Weird.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 4:09 PM on June 20, 2010

Thanks, by the way, for trying to figure out how to do this legally. You could always wait until the dvds come out -- not sure if they'll be on Netflix streaming right away, though. I doubt it. Until the dvds show up, itunes + abc is your best bet.
posted by incessant at 6:10 PM on June 20, 2010