Comcast’s Arena Rock
Posted on May 13, 2007
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One of the features of my Comcast Cable is the “digital music” channels. Commercial free. In particular, I could be easily hooked on the “Arena Rock” channel. Great stuff!
So, why can’t I, as a Comcast Cable and Comcast hi-speed internet subscriber, access that stuff via browser? The internet subscription gets me some limited freebie for “Rhapsody“. I don’t want Rhapsody online, I want the music channels from my cable. Not that Rhapsody isn’t interesting, but there’s no channel like the Arena Rock channel…
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I have not tried to access them online, but I agree with you… you should be able to access them online if you have subsribed to both. I turn on my TV in the morning and alternate between a few channels (I will have to check out the arena rock one tomorrow) and I leave it on until I leave to got to work. whenever I am doing stuff around the house on comes the TV, not the ipod because I need variety sometimes.
if you figure anything out let me know, thanks for the great post
this is probably at some point in the works, there are some interesting interpretations on internet radio licensing at the moment (see blog posts on Pandora, etc). Comcast is planning a huge integration in comcast.net and its ability to access other features like voicemail, chat, video programming, etc. Look for this some time at the end of 2007 at the earliest…
@svend - arena rock may only appeal to a certain demographic
But I sure love it.
@ian - very interesting comment. Any links for more info on this integration project you mentioned? Video programming too? Oooh….that would be nice too.
Sure - there’s a bunch of it out there on various blogs. Here’s a related article I found: http://www.cmcsk.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=147565&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=996387&highlight=
This is just the start though, eventually they’re talking about offering a wireless phone service in addition to the triple play packages, they’ve already trademarked “smart play” as a potential future offering. If that happens, a likely component will be the ability to control DVR functionality from a mobile phone interface… this will happen more easily as “OCAP” continues its development by all major cable providers in the next year. Search “OCAP” for more info, it’s basically a standardized operating system for set top boxes adding more diagnostic functionality, etc. Interesting stuff on the way!