It'll be interesting to see what this does to Netflix's stock price
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable television company, will outline an ambitious plan Tuesday to set up two new paradigms for how people will watch movies and television shows in their homes or on the road.
The plan, which Brian L. Roberts, the chairman and chief executive of the Comcast Corporation, will describe in a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is aimed at making a nearly limitless supply of movies and television shows available on television, where Comcast subscribers could view them on demand, and through the Internet, where anyone with Web access could watch them.
Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films - New York Times
Comcast might have to play technical catch-up. Right now, their OnDemand service does not deliver closed-captioning even when it is embedded in the movie. I suspect that Comcast guessed the viewership that uses closed-captioning would be small. Unfortunately for them, they may not have realized that this minority is viewed by much of the rest of the public as a handicapped viewership. It doesn't help that OnDemand movies have a lower visual quality that regularly scheduled movies (presumably from compressing/uncompressing with a lossy format).
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