Comcast TV Everywhere launch details: December, free for existing subs, really goes anywhere
By Richard Lawler 
posted Nov 12th 2009 4:58PM
posted Nov 12th 2009 4:58PM
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posted Nov 12th 2009 4:58PM
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And still doesn't have closed captions!!?! What good is on-demand if you still have to watch live TV to get captions?
I think it's a good thing that this counts against my bandwidth limit. It shows that comcast isn't competiting unfairly against competitors. I use it, just like netflix or amazon. If it becomes popular, it will force comcast to raise the limit and that would be good for everyone. Comcast is hurt by the same limit as other video and data users on the Internet.
Integrate into Windows Media Center or I will never use it.
So does this mean that you could potentially get rid of your cable and simply use internet to watch TV?
Most of the stuff worth watching on TV now is available online shortly after it airs. If you have Netflix, you'll find a lot of the stuff that isn't already out there on Hulu or something similar. The only reason I still have cable is for the kids to watch Disney and for football games on ESPN or NFL Network. Plus, I don't think the wife would go for the idea of dropping cable even though we dont watch a lot.
If you have Comcast, your cable is your internet.
doesn't count against their ridiculous limit if you don't have their internet ;) and they can't interfere with the videos, with their packet shaping & bandwidth throttling.
You do realize that it would take days upon days of constantly streaming HD video to even put a dent in that cap, right?
Are you people serious complaining about that? It's to keep people in check who ruin your internet experience (speed) by going crazy with BitTorrent and pirated downloads.
The cap is a complete non-factor if you're a normal human being.
I'm fairly certain that they removed that cap in most markets. When I signed on, I made certain that they didn't have one here. What they do here is just slow the piss out of your internet connection if you download too much during daytime hours. Annoying, but fair.
Why would I want to watch TV on my 21" computer screen when I could watch it on my 50" Plasma? What the fuck is the point of this?
And don't even mention Hulu. I tried watching an episode of Lost on there and it kept this constant annoying bar at the bottom spewing random facts about the show. What the hell is that? I just want to watch the show. Throw in a commercial or whatever, but what the fuck is that shit?
There is no need for all the profanity.
You still need to subscribe to cable TV for this to work. That is the whole point.
Cable companies (the ones to which you pay your cable bill) pay cable networks (content providers-the ones you watch) a certain amount of money per subscriber per month.
The content providers don't want to make their stuff available on the web for free because it will piss off the cable company because they are paying content providers money every month.
What the cable company is doing is setting up an authentication system that confirms you are a cable TV subscriber and so are entitled to watch this cable program or network on the web anywhere (laptop, mobile device, in or out of home, depending on technology).