Poll: How did you watch Lost?
By Richard Lawler 
posted February 2nd 2010 11:04PM
posted February 2nd 2010 11:04PM
Lost has been one of our favorite shows since it first started airing and a mainstay on more than one HDTV. As the first episode of its final season has just ended on the East coast, we're wondering how your TV habits are affecting how you watch it. So let us know, are you following along with liveblogs to get every second of action just like everyone else, or choosing to go at your own pace?
I will torrent it once it's available.
Whew was LOST ever great tonight. Best. Show. Ever.
Glad LOST is on its way out. Now, I just need Heroes to get canceled, and I can say the world is a better place.
@dez I couldn't agree with you more, this episode was some of the worst TV I've seen. Dull, poorly written and acted, it was more funny than thrilling.
@RichardLawler Have you been watching lost since season 1, or did you just jump in randomly to check it out this week? I promise if you watch it from season 1 you will take back every word you said about tonight's episodes!
@blackacex22 Watched since the first episode. Back when the producers swore there was a scientific explanation to everything that happened on the island and they wouldn't pull lame tricks like time travel or alternate universes. Ooops.
tv sucks, video games are the future
I'm afraid to jump into the series never having seen any of it. I won't be watching any of Lost until, if ever, I get caught up on the whole series.
Yes, you need to see it from beginning to end. There's really no way to jump in the middle. It's like Babylon 5 from S2 on.
The Blu-rays are very inexpensive, $35.00 or so on Amazon. With DVD, I payed $90 for 1 Season of the X-Files, probably the best comparison given the shared talent behind the shows. And it looks a LOT better on Blu-ray than 720p ABC.
-Pie
I watched LOST live since I'm using OTA for my HD right now.
I am amazed at how people can say Lost is a bad show. The first half of the third season was probably the worst of the entire show, but everything else is fantastic.
The only people I can imagine not liking the show are people who have no patience, don't understand it or who don't pay attention. They simply prefer mindless shows on CBS where it's the same basic show every week or they watch reality shows like Jon and Kate or those morons from Jersey.
Lost is definitely a show that you have to watch from beginning to end and you can't be doing other things while watching it. Heroes was a pretty good show in the first season, but has steadily dropped in quality.
If you're someone who hasn't seen Lost at all, watch it from the beginning (on Blu-ray, if possible).
@Meekermoloko ditto
@Meekermoloko
If by "those morons from Jersey" you are referring to the MTV show Jersey Shore, I'd like to point out that all but one of those "morons" are from New York.
@Meekermoloko totally agree with you, Great Show, Great Intriguing Story and definitively Great Season start...
Im gonna start buying seasons 1-5 in blu-ray to re-watch it again when it ends in May :-)
Peace
@zerokul175 best show on the TV... and wondering why they don't make Blockbuster movies that are this good... oh well, havn't seen it yet, I wait for the weekend and abc.com ... gotta play those stupid mini games during the commercials
I think a lot of people dont like Lost because it was good at first but the writers stopped taking the show seriously and milked it into a show they tried to make last forever. ABC tried to do damage control by announcing the final season but it was too late and too far off.
i have an rss feed for the mkv high def version of lost and ive never seen a show go up so fast. The clip show was up within minutes of the end of the show (perhaps it had already been showed) and the 2 hour premiere was up within 25 minutes of the end of the episode. That being said i still watched delayed on my tivo cus i couldnt wait a day for dvrms toolbox to auto convert the files overnight.
rss feed for torrent for me also. not sure how to answer this in the poll so I said "Other." 720p versions were posted very quickly on several private trackers. Started watching the recap while episode 1 downloaded and then the same for episode 2.
Is there a reason Engadget have so many polls?
Are you guys selling this information to advertisers?
The word in the hood, AOL be broke.
@kevon27
Generating page views they be
@MatrixDweller
word!
In this poll, only 25% of the people who watched Lost, watched the television commercials! It's time for the television networks to re-think their business models.
(You may argue that Engadget readers aren't typical viewers, but the portion of the population who is tech-savvy is only going to increase.)
@(Unverified) yes, I would argue that Engadget readers aren't typical viewers, but I don't even need that. It's an unscientific internet poll. Anybody who makes a business decision based on the results should be fired.
Until last night, I'd only watched the Blu-rays from S1 to S5, finishing just in time for the S6 premiere. So going from Blu-ray to 720p ABC, I could totally see a quality difference, with the Blu-rays winning by miles (even ignoring lossless audio).
The other awesome thing about the Lost Blu-rays is the price. DVD TV shows were about $100 per season. But Lost runs $35 on Amazon! That's a great trend that I hope keeps!
-Pie
@EatingPie when were shows $100 per season? lol
All the X Files and Star Trek DVDs were $120 per season list price on Initial release. The X-Files stayed that way until a few years ago when they got a new release in different (and better) packaging. Amazon had them for $80-$90.
Why LOL at that? It's the way things were. It's a nice change that Blu-rays are so much cheaper in this regard.
-Pie
@EatingPie
I really think that was thanks to iTunes, the $40-60 price point for full seasons really drove down prices.
I probably wouldn't have watched it live anyway, but another reason I watched it delayed was so I could watch basketball live. I'll DVR sports, but if I have the option, I prefer it live.
Another thing, it's not like I'm against watching commercials, but when an hour show can be watched in 45 minutes(and Lost's 2 hour premier in 90 minutes), it just makes sense. Especially with a show like Lost where you just want to get back to the action asap.
Yeah we can leave some comments again. I miss reading these over on the regular site. Yet to see lost will wait for a completes series set to come out and marathon the whole thing.
My local ABC station is terrible, I am not even sure the HD signal they push is actually a higher resolution, and they most certainly don't push the 5.1. I learned when I was watching FlashForward that I had to download everything I watch from ABC to get a decent HD quality and 5.1 signal. My local NBC doesn't push 5.1 either, but usually I just let that go and watch it off my TiVo anyway, (Pro Logic II works fine for Chuck). I really wish these affiliates would be forced to upgrade their equipment to at the very least just pass through the signals their parent networks are giving them, so even though I pay for cable, I do resort to the illegal download every once in a while.
@shorties what station is doing that?
I watched it on FLO TV.