Big names hit Netflix's streaming video library

I have a confession to make. I don't watch Lost. I love nearly every other sci-fi show out there, but I never got into the show.

I might give it another chance, now that it's available on by Xbox 360. Netflix has just released seasons 1-4 of Lost to its streaming video service. It's not the only ABC show to hit the Netflix online library; Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, and Legend of the Seeker are also now available on the service. Better still, the fifth seasons of Lost, Grey's Anatomy, and Desperate Housewives will come to the service in September, so you can catch up on all three shows just in time for their sixth seasons to premiere.

Usually a Netflix content update would slide under our radar, but these are some big shows, and are adding a lot to a service that, while convenient, has been suffering from a lack of major movie and television releases.

Now, if you excuse me, I have a lot to watch before I can really know what's going on at Wisteria Lane. The Island. I mean the Island. Don't judge me.

— Will Greenwald

[Source: EngadgetHD]

FiOS HD VOD from ABC but no FF

Wow. That's a lot of letters. Lemme sort that out for you. Verizon's FiOS TV is offering ABC video-on-demand, in high-definition. But, (and you knew there would have to be a "but") there's a catch.

Intentionally, ABC is disabling the fast-forward feature. No way to skip the ads. No way to skip boring scenes either. But that's not the important part. In an attempt keep ad-revenue flowing, you can demand a show, but ABC demands that you watch their ads. The shows are available the day after their broadcast premiere, are free, and in HD.

Keep reading for to see what their execs had to say.

"Scrubs" on ABC in HD, Just in Time

Scrubs has moved from SD on NBC to HD on ABC. Alphabet soup aside, all those letters might not matter much if rumors are true that this is the last season for the comedy. 

Scrubs was on NBC in standard def, surrounded by HD shows for way too long. The HD version will premiere on ABC midseason. Could this be its final year?