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Re: Absolutely said by banditws6:I completely agree. Especially because a lot of Comcast's VOD content is either pay-per-view or cannot be watched unless you subscribe to a premium channel package like HBO or Showtime. I also find that VOD content often breaks up, stalls or macroblocks as it streams to my STB. Consider yourself lucky that you could even watch HD VOD. When I was a Comcast user I could NEVER use there VOD unless it was around 3-5am, the node I was on was always overloaded so I always received an error that said to call them for more information (when you have 300+ people on a node and only dedicate 2-3 QAM blocks for VOD this is the shit that happens). I never bothered to call because I knew what the problem was, the same problem still exists now for my neighbor who signed up for a 2 year contract instead of moving to FiOS like the rest of us on the block. I now enjoy VOD whenever I want, I also enjoy a much better picture quality and faster Internet that is never down. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Now that you've all moved over to FIOS your remaining neighbor should be fine though, right?  |
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 banditws6Shrinking Time and DistancePremium
join:2001-08-18
Frisco, TX
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Yeah, I would get that error message on occasion too. VOD really just because useless to me because you could never count on it to work when you wanted to watch something -- which was in direct opposition to how Comcast markets it, ironically.
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should have faster internet too .
but for some reason i doubt the entire block as FiOS service. |
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said by flashcore:I never bothered to call because I knew what the problem was, the same problem still exists now for my neighbor who signed up for a 2 year contract instead of moving to FiOS like the rest of us on the block. I now enjoy VOD whenever I want, I also enjoy a much better picture quality and faster Internet that is never down. I have to say the picture quality of FIOS is WAY better than Comcast but their VOD is much slower than Comcast (at least in my area.) |
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 SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | reply to flashcore
I could never use the VOD service either. Needless to say, Comcast isn't receiving that extra $100/mo from me for cable service anymore. |
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 jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | reply to flashcore
Must be a local thing, no Comcast contracts here. |
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