Sunday, September 26, 2004

Comcast Signals It's Hip to the VOI Threat. (Where VOI = Video Over Internet)... Gary points us to a Journal piece (sub required) in which Comcast chief Brian Roberts has this to say: We're approaching seven million users on Comcast's high speed Internet service... We also have video on-demand and a very exciting arrangement with Sony and MGM to get lots of movies and a deal with the NFL. In fact, we think eventually 10,000 hours will be available on demand. And if you then overlay that with access to the Internet, there is virtually unlimited content that consumers will be able to access on a television, a PC and perhaps on a mobile device. There is constantly going to be a need to make it easy for consumers to access what they... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 11:32:44 AM    comment []