Consider another shot fired in the HD VOD wars, now Comcast is claiming "most same day VOD & DVD releases" for the month of November. Angels & Demons, Bruno, The Ugly Truth and others are among those hitting the VOD slate the same day they hit shelves, while movies like the Transformers and Ice Age sequels make their delayed appearance this month as well. Still, while providers slap box over ad campaigns, until the menus get simpler to navigate and prices come down to Redbox-competitive levels, who has more VOD and when just isn't that big of a deal to us.
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Christopher Price @ Nov 7th 2009 5:42AM
Yet still no Comcast Bandwidth Meter. What are we now, 10 months late on that Comcast?
As they say, that's par for the course in the land of Comcastic.
ehinkes @ Nov 7th 2009 6:26AM
You're absolutely right... at least 10 months. It's pathetic.
Not only that, but their whole program guide menu system looks like a Prodigy/Compuserve relic....
We all have HD TV's... so make an HD format guide menu that isn't 4:3 for starters.
dagamer43 @ Nov 7th 2009 8:19AM
Meh, I set up Windows Media Center a month or two ago and never looked back. Their VOD stuff took forever to load and was crappy. I'd rather use Netflix for "on demand" stuff.
Fanfoot @ Nov 7th 2009 4:22PM
Can't access their VOD as I've switched to Tivo's. Sorry, this won't matter to me until it hits Amazon or Comcast's TV Anywhere stuff rolls out.
How much do they want for these day and date VOD releases anyway? More than the usual 3.99 or whatever, or the same as anything else?
Sound Designer Dan @ Nov 7th 2009 6:15PM
And still no HD for PPV boxing or UFC? Lame.
cypherx @ Nov 7th 2009 6:39PM
Too bad the guide system sucks, it's more than 10 years out of date and it's a real challenge to find anything through their spaghetti maze of menu's.
And still, who cares about this... you have to pay at least $4.99 plus tax to watch one of these movies with only 24 hours to watch it. God forbid some emergency comes up and you have to stop the movie and run out of time to continue it. There's other more affordable ways to get HD movies.
Michelle @ Nov 8th 2009 8:00AM
I think it'd be really cool if Comcast offered a Subscription model for their VOD, say $15 - $20 a month extra for all the VOD you can watch. That'd be a pretty killer alternative or addition to Netflix.
DavidB @ Nov 9th 2009 3:30PM
Perhaps instead of crap like this that people DON'T really care about, how about they modernize the DVR OS, give us remote (PC nad smartphone) access to programming our DVR, and give us MORE CHANNELS IN HD! Honestly Comcast, who do you think you're fooling with your silly jabs at FiOS for having videos about "folding clothes" or whatever? The only time anyone EVER looks at most any of that free VID garbage either offers is when there's nothing on worth watching on the limited HD channels you provide. So yeah, I guess it IS important you have MORE than FiOS to offer over VOD since you offer so little live HD.
And what's up with Comcast DVR with TIVO? It's STILL only available in a very limited area right? Why aren't you rolling it nationwide?