ABC Full Episode Streaming is Live… and it’s Spectacular
Seinfeld fans will note the Teri Hatcher reference in the title of this post, but I just tried out ABC’s full-episode streaming video service which launched a few minutes ago (around 2am this morning), and it is indeed quite nice.
Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias, and Commander in Chief. They are all available online now if you live in the U.S. — free of charge. This isn’t some B-reel lineup of shows starving for attention. These are ABC’s most popular programs, and now thanks to Disney Brass, the ABC team in Burbank, and the Disney Internet Group in both Seattle and North Hollywood, they are viewable on any computer with a broadband connection. No more PVR-induced BitTorrenting for me… at least with ABC shows.
I have a special regard for this product because it was the last project I worked on before leaving Disney to start Newsvine. My work was in the proof-of-concept phase and the final product doesn’t share a single line of code or element of design, but I still feel an affinity for what has been accomplished here. I think it’s really, really great.
Some items of importance:
- This service is fully cross-browser and cross-platform. No Internet Explorer/Windows Media mess to worry about. I’m so glad Flash video won out in the end, and although Steve Jobs had nothing to do with it, I’m sure he’s happy that these shows look and work great on Macs.
- This is perhaps the nicest looking Flash video I’ve ever seen. Not only are the video dimensions nice and large, but the picture is extremely clear and not choppy at all. You can tell a lot of work went into the encoding and delivery process. It’s also interesting to note that this is 400k and 700k Flash streaming and not progressive download. Progressive download has been a lot more common than streaming in the past and it’s nice to see such a great example of true broadband Flash streaming in action.
- As great as this service is from a design and engineering standpoint, what’s been accomplished here from a licensing standpoint is just as significant. Disney has wanted to stream television shows for several years now. I remember working on early prototypes a few years ago, but the problem back then was that internet rights had never been negotiated into the deals of the network’s most popular shows. This wasn’t specific to ABC but to all major networks including NBC, Fox, and CBS. Most people think that when a show like Desperate Housewives airs on ABC, the network has full ownership of it. That is not the case. They generally have rights to do certain things with it (viz. air it on TV, sell it on DVD, etc), but only recently have networks begun including internet distribution rights in these deals. It looks like we’re finally starting to see the fruits of these new licensing terms, and it’s a great great thing.
- My only complaint here is the lack of ability to pop the video full screen. I remember talking to Macromedia about this awhile back but can’t remember what their answer was with regards to whether or not they’d ever be able to build this functionality into the Flash plug-in.
- Actually, I have one other complaint and that is that the video is not available internationally, but hey, you have to crawl before you can walk.
So head on over to ABC.com and check this thing out for yourself. I’m sure it’s just the beginning of a lot more video-related initiatives to come at Disney. Big ups to everyone over there and to all the peeps in the Seattle office!
One more thing: I believe this is officially a “trial service” which will run until June 30th. Hopefully it will do well and continue on long after that.
That’s great that it’s in flash.
Overall this is an interesting strategy by ABC.
It seems I got banned, accessing the website from Japan. sigh.. It displays “Only viewers within the United States can watch these full-length episodes.” and no links to the videos.
I am really disappointed that it’s not an internationalized site. It looks great and from the screenshots I can see the effort you speak of. Sadly I can also understand the licensing and broadcasting issues (not being broadcast at the same time all over the world, we in the UK are always at least a season behind the US).
I hope this whole country by country, us and you, time zone dependent rubbish is annihilated soon, but that’s a whole different blog post.
I’ve been excited about this ever since I heard of it. However, a while after I found out that it will only be available in the US… Naturally, this has to be the initial step, but you should know that the situation in Europe is getting ridiculous…
Take Prison Break as example. In March, mid-season, a break was announced (caused by licensing reasons, of course), and it will resume in September!!!
Basically, what this means is that everyone who didn’t knew how to do it before start to try to learn how BitTorrent works, since they think it’s outrageous to wait six months for a season of a series to continue. The ones who don’t swear that they won’t ever watch that series again…
I mean, Internet is international (duh) so to only offer something like this on a national scale, in the long run, is suicide. However, I love the idea and I hope it really works out! Unfortunately, me living in Sweden, I can’t test it… :-|
Very cool, and of course totally unavailable to me in Australia. Then again, of these series’ three are currently being screened here (Lost, Desperate Housewives and Commander-In-Chief), albeit significantly behind the US and the other isn’t even on the radar.
That is damn impressive. The quality is great, and it starts playing immediately.
And the fact that they’re launching with sponsors (third party Universal Pictures ones no less) is really promising for the idea of time shifting TV content over the web.
DIG rocks the house when it comes to Flash video content.
Hey Mike, Foxnews.com of all places actually does full screen Flash video. Now, its not chromeless, its just a browser window set to the size of your screen but its basically the same effect. If you weren’t afraid of hiding ‘the X’ from your users you could simply size the window a bit larger than screen res and position accordingly to fake full-screen chromeless Flash video.
Just search for open proxies list and use one that resides in US. That got me in just fine. Seems like the country detection is done only on web server side, not on streaming server.
Looks good to me as well.
Fellowship Church has been utilizing streaming flash for about six months now at a quality just shy of 700k. Before this Disney stuff, its one of the best quality video on the web that I’ve seen. Details on how they worked it found here.
Any guess how long it takes the other networks to launch their streaming video services?
Like I said in your post on bittorrent, as long as they refuse to release TV-series and movies internationally, at the same time (or hell, one day later so that the US crowds still get the scoop, I could live with that), I’ll be downloading these things because I just refuse to wait 6 to 12 months for them.
Doesn’t generally keep me from buying the DVD’s though — I don’t keep the eps after downloading (no space and no interest in the low-quality versions anyway) but it’s getting a bit ridiculous when a show takes 1,5 years between finishing in the States and releasing on DVD in the Netherlands.
This is awesome, I will probably stop pirating LOST every week now. :)
containing it to the USA makes sense for rights purposes.. luckily a proxy server works nicely :)
I was really excited when I heard a couple of weeks ago that ABC was going to put their TV shows up on their website. I currently live in the UK and the only way I can keep up with my Lost watching is by paying to download each episode off of iTunes. Now I’m disappointed to see that the videos off of ABC’s website are only available in the USA.
I guess I can watch them online when I get back to the States. Oh wait, when I go back I just watch them on TV again!
Sounds like excellent news!
What about full-viewport? That must surely be possible…
This is a pretty cool idea - but is unfortunately of no use to me. I’m not actually caught up with Lost (Jeff will be pleased to hear that my wife caved and queued season 1 with Netflix) and the only episode that you can watch appears to be the most recent episode.
I just wish Apple would strike a deal that would allow for higher quality content from iTunes. I’d love to purchase an HD quality version of any past episode to watch on my TV.
Thanks for pointing this out…a pretty slick service. I hope that the timeframe of the trial is not an indicator that they are planning to charge for it after June 30.
If they really want to bring in viewers, it seems like it would be good to offer all shows from this season, so that viewers who are trying to catch up on Lost, etc. can pick it up. This would only create more ‘addicts’ to the shows.
I’m with John- do they have past episodes hidden anywhere? The current episode of Lost does a good job of bringing people up to speed (I wonder if they intentionally used it as the first web broadcast), but I’d like to view at least the rest of the season, if not earlier seasons. It seems to me that it wouldn’t be very difficult for them to do it, and they get the same ad money whether I’m watching a two year old episode or a brand new episode. Am I missing anything?
I agree Jo-Pete, my old job didn’t allow me to catch Lost. My new job does so I watched all of season 1 on DVD and thought I would be able to catch up using the service but alas that is not to be :/
Very, very interesting. A couple of points/questions:
1. What affect will this have on ‘current episode’ sales of iTunes shows? I imagine the shows will still sell quite well on iTunes, but I also imagine the sales within 24/48 hours of availability on iTunes will drop. I’m basing this on the idea that people will watch a missed episode via ABC.com, but will still purchase via iTunes if missed over a week/two weeks.
2. With Google starting to clamp down on bandwidth usage (their analytics service), I’m surprised to see ABC launch such a bandwidth-hog service. Are we back to the days of ‘bandwidth for everyone! ?’
3. How soon before someone with a beefed system starts screengrabbing? Will a torrent search return ‘lost epx.somegroup.xd.abc-capture.blah?’
4. I’m surprised to be comment #20 and the first to mention ‘download/save-as?’ I appreciate the reasons why not, but I’m surprised nobody has commented on that.
5. I drool at the interface, but still wait for a news-magazine archive (20/20, dateline, 60 mins, etc.) that would broadcast streams in matching quality with a search/sort interface. Maybe I should look more into the Overdrive stuff MTV has been doing. That seems to be a pretty slick way to search/sort clips. Still, I’d like to see some archives of old news stories - even from a research aspect (if a student was doing a study on “Straight Edge” for example, they would return 20/20 reports and possibly even download a branded clip - with license agreement of course).
PS: I did a taste-test over the weekend (based on the Coca-Cola Blak & Gatorade post). Let’s not ever mention Coca-Cola Blak again - please. Ever.
Super stuff. Anybody (Mike?) know what product was used to encode the video?
Dave: Already in the works, I’m sure. No idea when it will be widespread though.
Akaxaxa: Yeah, full-viewport is generally possible, but it’s just not the same as popping into full-screen mode in, say, Quicktime, or even WMV.
John and Jo-Pete: Yep, I believe they will eventually offer all episodes. Right now, it’s just the last few, apparently.
Chad: Streaming Flash is extremely hard to capture. It wouldn’t even be worth trying, really. It’s much easier to grab the picture right off of a cable or satellite box as is being done with all illegal torrents right now. Also, there is no “download/save as” with Flash. Also, regarding Coke Blak, yeah, I didn’t realize it was Diet until I was done with the bottle. Boo.
Alias: No idea how the encoding was done. I’ll ask.
Channel 4 in the UK have launched Lost season one on demand at http://www.channel4.com/ - this time it’s only for UK viewers though.
was there ever any thought about using quicktime/H.264,
also a high-quality cross-platform codec offering?
Flash 8 video is already a a high-quality cross-platform codec offering.
QuickTime/H.264 would have been less accessible and less seamless.
Estimates are that Flash 8 is already on many more PC’s than QuickTime.
Good work Danny!
Shaun, or others, do you have a link to a proxy which works with the ABC site? So that others outside the USA may watch these episodes? Thanks.
Great service! The video quality is excellent and I love the interface.
I do wish we could get full screen…but this is more than enough to keep my happy. I also hope the trial period is extended and/or changed to a regular feature.
I think some of the navigation needs work. I knew that the full season of Alias was available but took me a few minutes to figure out how to access them. I’d also like to see all of the shows offer their full seasons…but I’m greedy like that.
I was actually looking at CBS’s online TV offerings on their new “online only” network Innertube, and from what I can tell, they do completely fullscreen viewing… even on Mac. Although the quality does worsen, but with ABC’s amazing quality, they could probably get it full screen…
Whoops… I just went back to Innertube, and they use RealPlayer or WMP for the video… NOT Flash (although the rest of the interface is Flash). I guess that’s how they get the fullscreen abilities… and the not-so-great quality (?)
Hey Mike,
I just blogged about this great post, and about the vibrant discussion. For what it’s worth, I just finished my stint on the NYWIFT board of directors that gave Anne Sweeney a MUSE award last year –and in her speech she made a big point about how important overseas markets were to her. One of her close friends from early in her career is Linda Kahn, who runs international sales for scholastic –and aside from their friendship, I know Sweeney gained a tremendous amount of insight from Kahn about how critical the international market is for american media companies. So to those who are frustrated with the ABC.com launch, I say: stay tuned!
Hey guys. Does anyone know anything about spoofing your ip address so people outside of the US can watch the episodes on ABC’s website? Would be very appreciative of any info please. Thanks in advance, Ben
I wasn’t able to view more than this weeks episode. Could someone please tell me why.
Yeah, I was excited about it too…
until I realized it wasn’t international. I don’t understand why people in Canada can’t watch it. I’m with Ben, we need a hacker, because I need my lost fix. The suspence is KILLING me.
Oh my…..I`m from Germany so I can`t watch it to -.- !
Are there realy no “cheats” to watch it ?
Cool interface; was it a disney implementation, or did some else write it for them ?
Andy: It was a joint effort by the ABC.com team, the Walt Disney Internet Group, and the excellent interactive design and development firm, Schematic.
I’m in France cant watch it ? cant we do anything to watch the episodes ?
to the fellow europeans: you can try it with open proxies (google them). but it’s not that easy. the bittorrent solution still works best .. I heard …
Very interesting. My company has been working with Flash comm/media. server since I started working with them, Jan 2005. We have been seeing some issues pop up now with Flash 8 movies. Getting some stuttering and bandwidth issues (although we do bandwidth detection and serve up accordingly). I’m wondering how they are handling it? We dont have any problems with simple small swf’s that just call out the media server. Its when we do large flash presentations that has other elements like menus ect (calls out to other movies) and the streaming video that we have stuttering and sync issues. we’ve tried squeezing the streaming videos down to smaller sizes, but doesnt seem to help.
THIS IS BULL SHIT ! - i missed last weeks’ episode but i am unable to watch the webcast show because i live in CANADA !!!
I’m not happy that I can’t view any of the episodes because I’m in Canada…so typical.
If you international people have friends at US universities some schools offer a remote desktop connection so students can access programs from their home computers. By browsing the internet through the remote desktop server an on-campus ip address will be generated, this should work for viewing the episodes. Try nerds in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, etc. they should know about any remote desktop setup their school has and whether it will accept international connections.
ABC Takes The Cake!
I’ve been following ABC’s full-length episode streaming since they launched the trial service and I have to say that not only was the programming I viewed top-notch (I’m a big fan of the Commander in Chief series now!) but they did an excellent job integrating their ads into the content. No major banner ad disasters, cool and hip commercials built-in to the screen using flash technology interest viewers and don’t block you from reaching the gold of your ABC online experience…watching the show!
The technology that powers ABC’s Full-length streaming is definitely worth being excited about! Thank heaven for flash video, and the time the engineering teams at ABC spent making sure that the presentation of each show would be smooth and rich – not choppy and distorted.
I have definitely been telling friends and family, and while most of them have had a chance to view an episode or two online, a couple friends missed the cut off date. If you too missed the chance to check out the full length episode streaming… don’t forget to give the good folks at ABC your email address by visiting the following page: http://abc.go.com/fes/index.html - They’ll send you an email that tells you when the service is online again (this fall).
MediaJosh– Silicon Valley California
Do you possibly know why I wouldn’t be able to get the video to run on my Mac?
Does anybody know why lost is being replaced w/ a diff. show? I missed 3 weeks of lost!
how can i watch missed episodes of lost thru live streaming in India?
Big fat criticism in region-blocking of these transmissions is that tv discussion pages on rest of the web allows us to find out what happened to a show in other parts of the world before we see it. This obviously ruins many very good shows which viewers outside the host country may then watch but in less numbers with less regularity given the fact that the story-line from a season earlier is in full-circulation all over the web. The networks legitimate streams will therefore always be vulnarable, moral arguments notwithstanding, to dodgy P2P TV, torrents and filesharing.
Is there any way to access these shows internationally? Most live streams have some exception for US military abroad, but I can’t find one on ABC’s website.
I am in the Middle East and I would really like to be able to watch these shows online. Will ABC offer a military exception like everyone else?
Sounds like this full episode streaming is great. Unfortunately everytime I try to launch it the episode viewer opens but then reports an error message saying the episodes are temporarily unavailable and try again later. Flash 8 is installed. Its carried on all week, so it would seem to be a problem at my end. Anyone got any ideas to help?
Thanks, Philip
hey philip,
i have the same problem, no idea why…
Same problem as yours…. but i’m not in the us. I use a us proxy. Maybe that’s the problem?
Maybe a service like this would work:
http://www.the-cloak.com/Cloaked/+cfg=32/http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing
can’t try cuz i’m at work
Good Try with
http://www.the-cloak.com/Cloaked/+cfg=32/http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing
unfortunatly comes up with “Invalid Catalouge Data”
Got similar results with proxy program “Ghost Surf” with that it apparently couldn’t connect to the servers.
Still trying to crack it !!
I’m in the U.S., not using a proxy, have Flash 8, and have the exact same problem under both Firefox and IE. What a great idea, wish it would bloody well work.
Unfortunately, I missed the first episode of season 3, so I settled in to watch it on the ABC website. It worked great, but froze up at minute 41 of the 44 min episode. I tried reloading the show, but I just couldn’t get the last 3 minutes. Does anyone know it iTunes will be offering season 3 anytime soon?
I was able to watch lost season 2on abc.com but season 3 still doesnt seem to work from Ireland!!!! anyone found out any new proxies to try that will work?
i found a proxy site that got far in, i managed to click on the ‘Lost’ premire, but i got to the video player then said i cant watch it cos im not in US :(
try http://www.ProxyLizard.com that got me far in, see you can any better.
erm if you type http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing into google and clicked on the cached thing you can click on lost but then when it gets to the next page it says your not in the us so if i can “cached” the next page i think i might be able to do it
Where I can see the full episode of lost, I mean the first episode of the thirth season of Lost… please I need some help, I’m not from USA… MMM that’s all, thanks for read…
Yes But everytime i always get Errror: Episodes are temporarily unavailable, Please try again at another time. what does that mean. can you do something about that? is it normal? did anyone get that answer yet?
Does anyone have the answer to Michael. i have the same problem
gives the first 2 episodes and can view in UK:
http://tvlinks.50webs.com/Lost_links.html#Lost_3
enjoy
Hey Jodi, absolutly fantastic!! Wow amazing, it works yey :D and what a great start to the season.
But be careful how this info is shared anyone visiting to much word gets around and the site that shows this may be shut down, which no one wants :(
But for those who want to watch it enjoy :D brill!!
Errror: Episodes are temporarily unavailable, Please try again at another time
doesnt anyone else get that? why doesnt it work with me
are there more shops like that Jodi?
I think you mean sites
I am having a lot of probs with the episode viewer this weekend. It keeps stopping and then won’t come back…sometimes it just pauses the show and others it will say “Loading” forever. It has done it on 2 show this weekend…think they are having server or network issues. It’s really annoying. I have waited ALL week to watch Grey’s and now I have to wait 30 more mintues and download it onto iTunes…ergh!
I am also getting “Episodes not available…”. I’m up to date with latest Firefox, flash, Java, wmp, real player, everything. Plays home page videos but when hit launch the player won’t load.
http://www.watch.lost is up to date (ep3).. bit of tedious faffing about but i just watched ep3 (from uk)…
Yeah, I keep getting errors that I don’t have 500kbps (or 850 kbps)…when i have a lot more than that. Something is def wrong w/ their site’s bandwidth
In order to get the full episodes, you need to make sure you chnage your clock’s computer to US time zone and put the US time. I am in the US using a European computer and it would not work….until i changed the clock
I meant change your computer’s clock to US time zone and it’ll work..
Wow fred that does work thanks alot!!!
Well, unless I’d used this European PC here in the states, I don’t think I would have figured it out. When I realized my US PC was working fine it clearly wasn’t an IP problem but something else….what else could it be?
I am in canada and used Anonymizer and finally got in. Had to turn on the anon. surfing, then turn it off at a certain point, then turn in back on…kept getting those error messages but now it is working. Not sure it’s because of what I did or if it’s just working again on their end, but it’s playing now with the anon. surfing ON.
good luck! Play around and it should work.
Ok - I really think they have a bandwidth problem. I get to watch about a minute of the program and then it either freezes (usually leaving a very funny face on whichever actor is on screen, which is humorous for all of a second) or it says “loading” but nothing loads. This is soooooooo annoying. Sure, I can download Grey’s on iTunes, but I can’t with six degrees. This is almost worse than never having it at all, because now I know what I am missing out on.
Hello, why dont you just give up and watch episodes of alot of shows and greys, i cant give you the site but go to google do this shearch .tvlinks.com then click on the first one which will be a bog thing but then shearch the place where they talk about .tvlinks.com and click on it and then you will have a lot of shows. i cant tell you because then people will find out about it and so on…
freeze……freeze……..freeeze……Loading……Loading……Loading…….freeze……….Oh, wait, it’s Playing!! nooo nooo nooo!!! Froze again!! Yeah, sometimes I wish they never even put up this service. This is damn annoying!! But, I keep watching!!! Please ABC, check your bandwith issues!
I think giving birth is easier than trying to watch one of these episodes! My God, I’ve just spent over two hours trying to watch a 40:00 minute show. Besides the constant freezing, endless load times and Streaming Server Error messages, it’s actually pretty cool.
Does anyone know why TV links has gone down? it had the first 3 episodes of lost on plus loads of other series.
Same as Mark, why is the links site down, its a real bum :(
Thanks to Fred and Medulla!
Here in Asia I found the problem as everyone mentioned. Then I set my PC to US EST time zone with Anonymizer turned on. It worked immediately. The only 2 problems left is the bandwidth causing clog sometimes esp. when setting screen to big and failure to view full screen. Still, this awesome. One again thank you for sharing advice!
try to get to tvlinks through the forum. that works.they changed the address from 50webs to something else.
I had the same problem (outside US, after changing proxies) - episode error. I changed the time zone in windows, and it works….
How do I find anonymizer?
I am using pacific time and its not working?
I am currently in France and trying to watch epsiode 4, but I constently get “Episodes not available”. Can someone in the US check if its working for him ?
Im getting invalid ad data:
This episode cannot be viewed because advertisments are currently unavailable.
HEY! Everyone who is having troubles with the Streaming ads, I just figured it out…
Okay I just built my system and am excited to tell you the key to this, I just built my new computer, started from scratch and I forgot to download AVI File Codecs!
I was having the error “Service unavailable becasuse adds cant be streamed” (Something along the lines of that) and I just downloaded DivX along with the web codecs and NOW IT WORKS!
go to http://www.divx.com its free, you download it all, get the codecs and go!
Now if youd excuse me I have to watch lost ;)
PS: Email me at ATForce@hotmail.com if you have any questions with the downloads and such
Fred ,thank you!!!
I can watch ABC full episodes from Japan with changing TimeZone to US .
OK - I’m totally lost! The changing timezones thing doesnt work for Canadians (or at least for me). What can I do?
Hmm yah I have been fiddling around with different proxies etc lol but no such luck. I did bring up the episodes at one point but then when I hovered over the episodes and clicked, nothing happened. :(
Any suggestions?
Hey Guys
1) To find Anonymizer, go to http://www.download.com and seach for then. I found and have it installed,
Now I am working to have the second message, about advertisement, off.
Just to you know, I am on Brazil.
For the last 3 weeks I have been getting the “Invalid Ad Data” error. Previously I was able to watch the episodes but even then ads did not show up.
I have tried:
- re-installing flash player
-downloading divx and updating codecs on all media players
- changing time zones
Nothing works!! Help!
p.s. I live in the US and as far as I know all the parts to my computer are from the US (although it was built)
i changed my time zone too but still i get the ” only viewers in the US can watch these episodes.” in in NC! can anyone help me please? thank you!
I think that ABC and Walt Disney are stupid for this latest service. Why the hell would you offer something when you clearly are not capable of supporting the bandwidth. I suppose we should all think they are consumer conscious and marketing genius because they post flash based streaming video that does little more than freeze and load. ABC sucks for this!
i get the display “only viewers within the united states can watch this” when i LIVE in the united states
i tried everything: US proxy, changed timezone. used to watch it back in may - it worked back then with a simple proxy change. anyway, need a little demo for my job. i am a media consultant in europe. can s.b. maybe make a little screen capture for me to show how it works (avi or wmv) 2 minutes is enough. and maybe please include a part were you try to skip the ads. (i remember when you tried to switch within the episode, the ads were shown automatically, so one was unable to skip… has it changed snice may?) please mail it to elancer@hotmail.de or post an anonymous download link… Reaaaaally appreciate! :-) Thanks brazzo
http://www.tvfreeload.com check it out
I was able to watch episodes - no problem, with the ads - for several weeks. The past 2 weeks, however, I’ve been getting “invalid ad data: the episode cannot be viewed because the advertisements are currently unavailable.” I downloaded the DivX, restarted my computer, and the problem remains.
Does anyone have a solution??
Has anyone been able to watch any episodes recently (Dec 2006)? I’m thinking the problem is with abc.com, not my computer.
They could have changed the formats on ABC.com ill check it out but I have almost all video Codecs installed so it would be nearly impossible for me do a check.
Hi you guys,
You all seem very savvy about this. I’ve been trying to watch these episodes online for a while now. I’m in the US. I just bought my computer. I have the latest version of Flash, my pop-up blocker is disabled for the site, but I am still not able to watch the episodes. Any words of advice would be greatly appreciated!
Look at my post about DivX player, your new comp prolly didnt come with the Codecs… Look for my post and Download DivX
i was just wondering why people who live in canada can’t watch this also. and if their is any way I can watch these shows anywhere else? even though i live in canada pleeeeese help!!!!!!!
I watched it last night in the UK with no problem, but for today morning is just for who lives in the US …… is that possable to watch it at night-time in europe????????? or wath happend ?:(
I still get ‘episodes are temporarily unavailable’ error!!
The proxy thing worked, with and without changing my computer time. I wonder are the episodes unavailable or is there still something wrong with my settings??
This LOST fan would be very greatfull!!
i live in canada also and about a week ago i was able to watch the abc shows but just yesterday i tried and it gave me the message “only viewers in the US can watch these full length epesodes” !!!!!! i cant beleive that! i was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere else to watch those shows or even just GREYS ANATOMY that would be wonderfull!!! (and be able to watch them in Canada) i would be very thankfull!!!!!
just go here for all those people http://www.tv-links.co.uk/
from the UK,
the proxy things is working fine, but just on the mornings (GMT) because that is night-time at the USA :)
IF U from Europe do not even try watch it at night-time(GMT), and if “no ad”, do not give up just they run out of ads …. :D keep trying :)
got the proxy from here http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html
now, just waiting for the sundays :D:D:D:D
You have to chande the proxy or IP address in your LAN settings, find an american free proxy that is annoy. to watch ABC online Grey’s Anatomy. If u find a good one please tell.
Ya I have a question. I click the Launch Now button and it will load to 90% and stop then I try to exit out it freezes then shuts down all the windows I have open at the time.. What do I do? Please reply by emailing me at Swimmer239@aim.com
I am having the exact same problems as Allie, something else I have noticed which might help clue someone in on what the problem might be is the weather.com site will not load up either. As far as I know these are the only 2 sites I am having problems with. (I have tested out quite a few other ones.)
I have tried turning off all computer safeguards added both abc, and weather to my trusted sites list, and still nothing seems to be working.
Any help on this would be great.
Thanks,
Sean
Allie and Sean, r u both using proxy from free list?
when i had the same problem or i left it to load ages - hours after being stuck on 90% or i changed the proxy because not all proxies are good :( keep trying or there is still a torrent :)
some proxy… http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html
Thanks for the response ps!
I don’t know what was wrong, but everything started working again yesterday for no reason what-so-ever. (My wife was using it when I was at work and she doesn’t change anything on the computer.) go figure.
Sooo maybe it was a comcast thing? Oh well, it is working again. Hopefully Allie had the same thing happen.
Fred! I think i love you.
O… and, try using Hide My IP, and then just change the time zone on you computer. it worked for me.
I got a US proxy and I tried changing the time zone and when I went to ABC I still got error unavailable. Can anybody help please?? Thanks!!!
Hello friends,
I continue to have trouble as I live in the US with a new computer, the latest version of Flash player, DivX player and codecs, and no pop-up blocker! Still no ABC video! What could be the problem, and how might I fix it?
Can anyone be of help?
Why can’t you broadcast this site to Canadians? I missed the episode of What About Brian but wasn’t mad cuz I thought I could watch it on here?! Well i just found out I cant????! why cant u broadcast to canada? come on we watch this channel too.