TiVo-Comcast service mix finally happens – 7 years later
Starting Tuesday, owners of TiVo Premiere DVRs who are also Comcast subscribers in the San Francisco Bay Area can benefit from a long-promised service integration between the two companies. Access to...
View ArticleFollow the money to Congress on Comcast-Time-Warner deal
The next phase for the proposed $45 billion Comcast-Time-Warner corporate union will be before the long arm of the federal government, whose regulators will be sifting out the antitrust implications of...
View ArticleComcast accuses Netflix of lying as public feud escalates
Netflix and Comcast, two companies that are supposed to be business partners, are waging an unusually public feud. This week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings publicly opposed Comcast’s proposed acquisition...
View ArticleWhat it’s like to try and leave Comcast
This morning, AOL VP Ryan Bock posted on SoundCloud audio of conversation with a Comcast service representative while trying to disconnect his service. Listen to the conversation here: During an...
View ArticleBroadband activists to FCC: Hold Comcast accountable before Time-Warner deal
As part of its takeover of NBC-Universal in 2010, Comcast promised Federal Communications regulators that it would help give low-income residents better access to broadband, offering a bridge across...
View ArticleComcast offers cloud television in the Bay Area
TiVo has long pitched itself as a better alternative to the “generic” cable DVR. But Comcast is launching a new cloud-based TV service in San Francisco and Houston on Wednesday that could undercut that...
View ArticleComcast on home Wi-Fi lawsuit: Customers get “real benefits”
Comcast on Tuesday said it disagreed with a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company’s plan to turn home Internet routers into Wi-Fi hotspots threatens privacy, wastes energy and clogs Internet...
View ArticleDish offers ESPN, CNN, Food Network in cord-cutting online TV service
Television providers know that live sports are the primary reason keeping subscribers from canceling their service. That’s why sports fans who wanted to watch games online still needed a regular pay TV...
View ArticleStream the Super Bowl without a cable subscription
2015 continues to be a year in which such barriers continue to fall. We'll soon have standalone ESPN/CNN and HBO streaming packages, and now NBC will let users stream 11 hours of its Super Bowl content...
View ArticleOnce again, Comcast insults a customer on a bill
Once again, a Comcast customer has come forward to say her name was changed to an offensive term on a bill she received from the company.
View ArticlePlayStation online TV service, with local sports, comes to Bay Area
Sony has just expanded its fledgling PlayStation Vue online TV service to the Bay Area with channels that include the local sports networks that broadcast Warriors, Giants, A’s and Sharks games. Sony...
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