Lost

More than two months after the online video service Hulu first announced a relationship with ABC-TV and said it would begin featuring content from the network, it has made its first shows available.

Six shows from season five of Grey's Anatomy have been added on Hulu.com and another 35 Web sites that offer the service. Two shows are from the season opener, two from the middle of the season, and the two shows leading up to the finale.

From Rolling Stone:

Disney's decision to take a 30 percent stake in online video aggregator Hulu could be a significant milestone in the evolution of television. That's because Disney is adding its premium content to an already robust lineup from other Hulu stakeholders, including NBC Universal, News Corp., Sony Pictures, MTV Networks, Paramount and more than 100 others.

The Walt Disney Company on Thursday announced what many analysts have been predicting: It's buying a stake in online video-content aggregator Hulu.

Through a subsidiary of ABC Enterprises, Disney will join NBC Universal, News Corp., and Providence Equity Partners as a joint-venture partner and equity owner of Hulu. Disney is taking a 30 percent stake in the quasi-YouTube competitor.

I have been called many things in my life; never, though, an urban myth. But that is what Alan Wurtzel, president of research at NBC Universal, suggested when I told him I got rid of my television set last year and started watching "30 Rock" and "CSI" on my laptop instead.

"I hear about people like you," he said, a hint of skepticism in his voice. Then he hissed what sounded vaguely like an insult.

"You probably read."

Well, yes, I do. But just because I don't have a television set, doesn't mean I don't crave "Gossip Girl."

Picture whipping out your cell phone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold in the U.S. -- at least not without monthly charges.

This is one of the reasons the United States is behind several other countries when it comes to making television an attractive option for cell phones. Carrier business models are partly at fault, but choices about TV technology made long ago are largely to blame.

ABC has a new Webcast deal, this time with Internet television service Veoh. Under the arrangement, full-length episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost and Ugly Betty will be available on Veoh's Web site. The deal is only the second time ABC has licensed content to an independent vendor.

Other networks, notably NBC, have moved much more aggressively into the strange new land in which networks produce content for broadcast, then license other sites to replay it. NBC and Fox joined forces last year to create Hulu.com, a portal for the networks' content.

Solid Snake has returned. The covert-operations hero of Metal Gear Solid has returned for the fourth and final release of the hit video-game franchise.

A PlayStation 3 exclusive, MGS4: Guns of the Patriots is a classic "stealth action" game with a list price of $59.99. The franchise began way back in the last century, 1987 to be exact. But, this time, a major new target has been added to Solid Snake's mission -- to increase sales of the PS3 console.

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