Time-Shift Viewing is something that Comcast brought to the world of television which Internet users already had. On Demand is a phrase that let’s Comcast subscribers access a menu of programs, movies and Gallery Slideshows at any time at all and start when you are ready. Your remote can pause, rewind and forward to any point in the movie, show or Gallery albeit at a snail’s pace and pause will “detect” an absence of activity in about two minutes and bump you back to live television so you don’t hog the On Demand bandwidth.
Comcast’s delivery of such a service was a break-through. 1080 televisions could call up Bogart movies on a whim which, for some reason, never stops entertaining me. On Demand then got rights to sell you viewing rights to movies just released at rental brick-and-mortars like Blockbuster. The Fountain was sold out at BB but readily available On Demand from Comcast for just $4.99 I had 24 hours to watch it again and again and it was in glorious High Definition which beats DVD since I don’t have a $500 HD DVD player.
So, all that aside, here’s what to know about Comcast Cable television service if you don’t already know. Time-Shift viewing isn’t a kitchy crap-candy for tech-kiddies. The History Channel loads tons of shows into the On Demand Menus; A&E also throws in some quality viewing that kids hate; on a Winter night when the roads are icy and Blockbuster wants $4.27 for a new release (not counting your life on the icy roads) you can splurge the extra .72 cents and never leave home to see The Bucket List at an even better resolution.
Assuming that you know all the stuff we just covered above, here’s the news that jumped COMCAST above Bill Gates and this year’s CES in the NewsBuzz that we track.
“Project Infinity plans to give consumers the best and most content they will find On Demand anywhere – more HD, more sports, more movies, kids’ programs and network TV,” said Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation. “Project Infinity builds on our commitment to bring more content to people across all platforms at home and on the go, and we’ll work with our partners, programmers and video producers to deliver on this vision.”
What most people don’t know is that Comcast Cable has WAY MORE stuff than satellite and DirectTV. The HD content is more than twice. Brian Roberts’s move is totally exciting because it can’t fail. Cable is like Invisible Content; people don’t know they wanted it until they got it. Even then, they don’t find themselves using it, but there they are using it! If you’re a gambler, you’d be wise to snatch up some Comcast at a near two-year LOW! It’s $16.62 as of market close today. It’s high was $30+ a year ago in FEB07.
It seems that Comcast with On Demand and Time Shift Viewing needed a big statement to stop a seven month slide and this was probably it – unless, of course, you’re into the AT&T future plan of providing HD Cable TV with Cat6! Oh, you didn’t know? Stick with Dinarius every so often, we’ll keep you up on it.
