http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Isn't it the job of the FCC to see this and put a stop to it? Really, besides Comcast and NPC, who thought this would be a good idea and give us (the CUSTOMERS) a better service? I am so sick... sorry... disgusted with Comcast that I go without cable over getting Comcast!]]>Dec 1st 2009 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
agreed. I currently reside in Tucson, going to the U of A, but because I have DirecTV I couldn't watch any of the football away games all season. It's total BS!]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/

it means the service will suck more with random service outages from time to time especially during peak time. Any calls or complaints will be met with a "Ben" from India, who will faintly understand you. Pretty much what you would expect from Comcast cable internet really...]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/I trust you'll be exchanging what you got for something hypnotic and strange. There won't be a refund, and you'll probably never go back.]]>Dec 1st 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
Seconded]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/ Can I get a harumph. HARUMPH!!!

+1]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
You're just starting to feel that way?]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Yes they are gonna throttle your favorite NBC shows!
Be AFRAID...
Be VERY AFRAID!]]>Dec 1st 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
Its just the natural fear that we all have of dealing with Comcast. Much like nonconsensul anal intercourse with a thermos jug with no lube, which is about how being a Comcast customer feels like. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
Ever wonder what the LOST numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) really mean? That's how much ABC pays per episode. Fortunately, ABC has a really GOOD parent company, Disney, who truly understands how this business works, and clearly they're doing something right. If Comcast is so worried that you're going to use the internet "too much" that they would go through all of the bad press and put a cap on your use, you know they will do anything to save a buck. I'll give them 2 years to live. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
That's the first thing that came to my mind!!]]>Dec 1st 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
I call bullshit. That's almost $5 billion per episode ($4,815,162,342, by your account).]]>Dec 1st 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
30 Rock is now 1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
Up.]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
I love Brighthouse (aka BHN), they are in every conceivable fashion the complete opposite of Comcast:

Superb Five Star Red Carpet Customer Service, comparable to a Mercedes dealership or a super fancy hotel.
Reasonable Rates ($9/mo basic cable) . BHN runs monthly promos and OFTEN slashed my cable bills! (I pay less now than I did last year and get more service)
LOCAL Customer support reps (who know and live with in the same area code as you)
]]>Dec 3rd 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
The network execs thought that was "cool" to do that. The geeks did not.]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Thank goodness nothing I will miss]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
You've never watched 30 Rock then, have you? Or SNL?]]>Dec 2nd 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
I don't know why Comcast wants NBC. They won't be able to exclude other broadcasters in their markets.

I know GE wanted to dump NBC since too many questions started to arise of the collusion withe NBC programing and GE's lobbying of Washington D.C. Put it this way, GE spends more money than all of the oil lobby, tobacco loby, add other lobbies combined. What GE wants, GE gets.

GE is the reason that incandescent light bulbs will be banned and you can only buy the CF lights made by them.]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20091116%2F1358106957&threaded=true&sp=1
"some of the pressure is actually coming from the cable guys as well (who view Hulu as a huge threat), this will only get worse if, as is widely expected, Comcast completes its purchase of NBC Universal."

Hulu is owned only in part by NBC so this could be at least some of the reasoning behind it.]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Just buy all the content creators you'd be competing with.

Fuck You Comcast. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
I agree, this is extremely disturbing. But, interestingly, the first thing I'm worried about is how the TV show 30 Rock is going to be handled. They make fun of NBC-Universal, GE, and their parent company, Sheinhardt Wig Company all the time. Now that Comcast is in the picture, Tina, Alec, et al will surely take a few heartless jabs at their new employers. That's all fine and good, but Comcast is evil and I don't want them to go censoring brilliant creativity.

And yeah, that whole net neutrality issue is going to get interesting, too.]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
That would be a yes. I canceled my digital service years ago because I couldn't stand the blocky images, and this was on a standard def TV. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Comcast's compression is miserable. There's no reason my sub-480p XviD rips should look better than half their 720p primetime feeds.]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
The bigger disgrace is AMC. WTF are they doing to that image? It's not just compressed to hell; it's blurry and DARK.]]>Dec 1st 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
Free for us... but Hulu makes money from ads.

If NBC pulls all their shows off Hulu... they lose money. Unless people go directly to NBC.com to watch shows.

So which is better? Watching shows on NBC.com or Hulu.com?]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
Hulu previously announced that it would start charging for content in 2010. To what degree, we don't know yet.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/
That's Conando to you! lol]]>Dec 1st 2009 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/comcast-deal-to-buy-nbc-is-done-will-be-announced-thursday/Dec 1st 2009 6:33PM