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The Comcast Media Center mentioned in this article<\/a> is just a mile or two from our house. I drive by it fairly regularly.<\/p>\n

Of course, I still can’t get cable modem coverage in my neighborhood. But I’m not bitter …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Comcast Media Center mentioned in this article is just a mile or two from our house. I drive by it fairly regularly. Of course, I still can’t get cable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131002,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/netflix-will-show-up-natively-on-comcast-cable-boxes.html","url_meta":{"origin":190,"position":0},"title":"Netflix will show up natively on Comcast cable boxes","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Jul-16 5:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We actually access Netflix presently through a native app in our Sony BluRay player, but having it added seamlessly to the Comcast X1 box is even more convenient. 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