Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Comcast Better With Yahoo Than Without

Comcast is building a video website that could be strong competition for Hulu, Joost and the like.

Fancast delivers full length TV shows both current and classic, including House, The Office and Adam-12. Comcast's edge is that it will direct its millions of subscribers to the website where it can derive extra revenue from advertising around its videos and TV listings. Like TiVo, Comcast will also soon enable customers to program their DVRs online, a useful service because the keyboard is better than the remote control for drilling down on content.

I've been saying that Comcast should buy an Internet company such as Yahoo or AOL, but it looks like that's not going to happen. Comcast, which is fighting off competition from the telcos such as AT&T and satelllite companies, wants to bridge the online and TV worlds, and buying a company that has content and strong advertising relationships would be an effective way to fast track that move.

Comcast may live to regret remaining timid in a time that calls for boldness because the market is open -- for now. If Google starts developing services in the TV world or AT&T combines both universes, Comcast may never be able to catch up.

By John Gartner at 11:07 AM | Comments (1)

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Comcast just up'ed their price of their DVR from $12/Month to $19.99/Month. Add thier new Tivo add-on server and this brings it to $24.99.

It's cheaper to buy a Tivo ($49 for a dual tuner series 2 and $1295 / Month) and get the full experience instead of Comcast's Tivo "Light"

Comments by SirOssis of DaLiver : Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 07:12 AM

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