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Comfrickin'castic

Matt O'Malley shares the secretest of secrets of how to create a 30-second skip-ahead button for your Comcast DVR remote. Guaranteed to work until the next time Comcast discovers it and sends out secret rays to reprogram the remote - and make Matt disappear.

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When a Comcast Internet outage can mean life or death

Not everybody uses their broadband just to download porn. Sometimes on-call social workers need access to Google Maps to find out how to get to emergency locations in the middle of the night. And sometimes, Comcast just doesn't care, John Greiner-Ferris explains.

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Two T ads that really belong right next to each other

Mark O'Neill spots one of the Red Line's infamous sperm-donor ads. That SO needs to be placed next to one of Comcast's new "Wanna hook up?" ads (is Comcast really admitting it wants to screw you?).

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Comcast dumps local critic of Bill O'Reilly

Barry Nolan out at CN8. OK, granted, probably not somebody you've actually watched since his "Evening Magazine" days, but still. He got canned for objecting to Bill O'Reilly getting some sort of bloviator award from whoever it is who hands out regional Emmies.

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A new way to get help from Comcast

Complain about them on Twitter:

... It seems that Comcast has gotten with the program, they even have their own Twitter account, and actively monitor Twitter and other sources for complaints. ...

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A small window of time

Fabulously Out There decided to switch from Verizon to Comcast for broadband when the Verizon phone rep offered to send out a technician to diagnose her broken broadband "between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m." She reports her experience with Comcast hasn't been much better.

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Big Brother coming to a Comcast set-top box near you?

Chris Albrecht posted this a couple days ago:

At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast's senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who's in your living room.

Via Brian Kane.

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Comcast and Tivo: A match made in hell?

Mike Hillwig discusses the suckage known as Comcast.

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Orwell and Kafka would have understood Comcast

Lack of due process? Failure to contact the customer about a problem? Termination without explanation? Jpell explains, in great detail, how Comcast terminated his Internet service, twice, for allegedly using too much bandwidth without ever telling him a) just how much that was or b) warning him in advance.

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