A number of my friends have recently told me that they enjoy watching the show Heroes [nbc.com]. Apparently, it was created by the same people who made the show Crossing Jordan [nbc.com], which I used to watch for a little while.
Anyway, I decided to give it a shot recently, but I couldn't find a listing for the show in my PVR's schedule listing. That's when I figured out that the show was on hiatus until January. But on the show's website, they have all of the previous episodes available to watch.
Thank goodness that at least some of the media giants "get it", and aren't completely consumed with the crusade against digital media distribution. At least that company realizes that if they allow their shows to be seen on their website, they might get more viewers for their TV broadcasts.
The versions of the episodes on their website are actually alright. They are really low resolution. And unlike watching on a TV, there is no closed captioning (I actually think that this is a huge drawback). Plus, most people don't have a computer hooked up to their TV, so it's kind of annoying to watch them.
On the other hand, though, they download quickly and are easy to watch (you just need Flash [adobe.com]). In the episodes that I have watched so far, each interruption only contained one normal length commercial. So, although I couldn't skip over the commercials like I could have with my PVR, they weren't really that annoying. Actually, if shows only had that few commercials, I bet that the drive for Tivos and time-shifting wouldn't have gone so quickly [adage.com].
Anyway, I'm getting into it. The story lines seem pretty interesting so far, and it doesn't seem like it is just another rehash of a TV show that had aired before. Plus, the sets look pretty interesting. That is one quality that attracted me to the show Lost [abc.go.com].
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