{"id":6582,"date":"2004-08-16T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/16\/demanding.html"},"modified":"2004-08-16T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:52:26","slug":"demanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/16\/demanding.html","title":{"rendered":"Demanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t even gotten the new ON DEMAND <\/a>service at our house (Comcast is doing a good impression of the Three Stooges in coordinating someone coming out and replacing our old digital cable box), and I’m dubious about the service.<\/p>\n

With video on demand, you can choose to watch games, movies and shows whenever you want. Best of all, you won’t have to wait for them to air. Just make your selection from an easy-to-use onscreen menu. While you’re watching, you can pause, rewind and even fast-forward programming. With flexibility like that, video on demand offers TV on your terms.<\/p>\n

Two questions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. How much does it cost?\n
  2. What shows are included?<\/ol>\n

    The answer seems to be “Wait and see,” since the web page doesn’t really make it clear. It doesn’t sound like all programming is available, by any means, and it sounds like it’s available only within a broad time slot (no saving up several weeks of show X to watch), and it looks like some stuff will be free and other stuff won’t be.<\/p>\n

    It sounds like a crappy mix between a DVR like TiVo and Pay-per-View. I remain skeptical.<\/p>\n

    On the other hand, even if Comcast did offer some sort of DVR solution (which they don’t, yet, in our area), it would probably be crappy, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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