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Title: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: earl1937 on December 01, 2015, 03:53:22 PM
 :airplane: I have Comcast internet service and use their xfinity.com as my home page! They have a feature on the home page which is listed as "Entertainment today" and I can click on one of the stories featured and the ad associated with it will play just fine, but the subject matter will not play, it just reloads the ad again and again.
I can watch all the utube video's I want to and have up dated the latest "flash" player.
Can anyone make a suggestions as to what may be wrong?
Title: Re: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: Mar on December 01, 2015, 05:08:53 PM
My complaint about Comcast

Comcast will almost certainly blow a gasket when it reads this letter, but I indubitably must make the case that Comcast offers us no happiness, no answers, naught but the cold embrace of the void. Although not without overlap and simplification, I plan to identify three primary positions on Comcast's publicity stunts. I acknowledge that I have not accounted for all possible viewpoints within the parameters of these three positions. Nevertheless, Comcast insists that only one or two members of its entire plunderbund are mawkish crypto-fascists of various stripes. Only one or two members? This is, to put it charitably, an understatement of the facts. It would be far more accurate to say that Comcast's forces have recently enjoyed some success at posing a threat to personal autonomy and social development. Comcast considers this a reason to kvell. In contrast, I consider it a reason to reach out to others who share a commitment to a just society.

Don't get me wrong; Comcast winds up on the wrong side of every important issue. But Comcast must be surrounded by some sort of reality-distortion field. Why else would its flacks warrant that the future of the entire world rests in its hands? If it weren't for all that reality distortion they'd instead be observing that Comcast's policy of visiting misery and havoc upon countless millions must not go unchallenged. To leave it unchallenged is to condone Comcast's grandiose plans for world hegemony, plans in which no one is free to say that Comcast has created for itself premier victim status. It uses this status to shield itself from scrutiny whenever it's caught playing fast and loose with the truth. Comcast's victim status also means that Comcast's foes have to be cautious when suggesting that I want to make this clear so that those who do not understand deeper messages embedded within sarcastic irony—and you know who I'm referring to—can process my point.

An important piece of information that was leaked from official sources is that Comcast plans on retaining an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity by the end of the decade. As soon as news of this lamebrained plan spread, Comcast announced that its approach would be “reworked”. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before it was again full-steam ahead for squandering irreplaceable national treasures, which proves that Comcast doubtlessly believes that it's a wonderful, charitable organization. It has apparently constructed a large superstructure of justifications for this a priori conclusion. I guess that shouldn't be too surprising given that Comcast's mind has limited horizons. It is confined to the immediate and simplistic with the inevitable consequence that everything is made banal and basic and is then leveled down until it is deprived of all spiritual life.

Be honest; can you in any way believe Comcast's claim that it's morally obligated to create some immoral, pseudo-psychological profile of me to discredit my opinions? I honestly cannot, mainly because its politics began innocently enough with peaceful calls for democratic change. Unfortunately, Comcast's loony-bin crew has since morphed into the prime backer of a bloody, armed insurgency, replete with maladroit demands for making our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness. The point is that if everyone spent just five minutes a day thinking about ways to put Comcast on notice for its attempts to relabel millions of people as “ultra-postmodernist”, we'd all be a lot better off. Is five minutes a day too much to ask for the promise of a better tomorrow? I hope not, but then again, Comcast is squarely in favor of classism and its propensity to rob, steal, cheat, and murder. This is so typical of Comcast: it condemns bigotry and injustice except when it benefits it personally.

You should ask yourself if you're willing, in the name of forming bonds across divides of race, gender, class, or age, to light the torch of human rights. If you're not—and that's thoroughly understandable—then at least take note of the fact that Comcast is a tribute to our collective gullibility. Promise us anything that sounds cheap, free, or too good to be true, and you've got us hooked. That's why so many people believe Comcast when it says that it's okay to take away our sense of community and leave us morally adrift. The reality, in contrast, is that a large number of people are immensely outraged at it. Comcast should ask itself what it has done to incur such wrath. One possibility is that Comcast says that it is its moral imperative to pose a threat to personal autonomy and social development. This is patently absurd, as even a cursory examination of the facts will prove. In any event, Comcast's self-deluded mind games aren't something we can safely ignore. Nor should we merely disparage them wittily over martinis at cocktail parties. No, we must explain a few facets of this confusing world around us. That's the only way to educate the public about how I, speaking as someone who is not a cheeky hostis generis humani, want you to know that Comcast cares for us in the same way that fleas care about dogs. Knowing, as they say, is half the battle. What remains is to present another paradigm in opposition to Comcast's unhinged accusations. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first.



TLD;DR: No idea, most likely a ""problem"" on their end.
Title: Re: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: NatCigg on December 01, 2015, 05:19:10 PM
:airplane: I have Comcast internet service and use their xfinity.com as my home page! They have a feature on the home page which is listed as "Entertainment today" and I can click on one of the stories featured and the ad associated with it will play just fine, but the subject matter will not play, it just reloads the ad again and again.
I can watch all the utube video's I want to and have up dated the latest "flash" player.
Can anyone make a suggestions as to what may be wrong?

you might not have a program added that is needed for your show to play.  the ad can play but the show you want is in a different format.  what happens is the ad can play, then when the program tries to run it cant because its format is not supported on your computer.  the website notices a problem and restarts the play sequence. the ad plays again then the show fails again, and the cycle continues.  i cant guess much more than something like java or shockwave. good luck.  :salute
Title: Re: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: NatCigg on December 01, 2015, 05:28:53 PM
My complaint about Comcast





TLD;DR: No idea, most likely a ""problem"" on their end.

there are two impossibilities here.

1) that you wrote this; expecting any serious result.
2) that you expect me to understand or be persuaded to any direction.
Title: Re: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: bustr on December 01, 2015, 05:59:32 PM
I cut the cord with Comcast recently due to a $90 a month bill and nothing on worth watching after 15 years. Some bimbo executive feminista castrated the SiFi Channel around 2000 and it's offerings have been worse than 1950's B grade scifi since then. Now it has a gender friendly name SyFy and does WWF Tuesday nights supposedly to keep guys looking at the channel. TV broadcast channels and programming have changed so much in 15 years I'm getting a lot for free I was getting on subscription from Comcast. While much of it is HD versus Comcast's crapola feed unless you pay them an additional rental fee for an HD receiver. I had to build my own HD antenna to pull in about 70 channels here where I live.

I augment online with Hulu for $7.00 a month along with free Youtube. I have a VISIO smart TV and a SONY blue ray player which both receive Hulu, Youtube, Netflix and other internet offerings. It just took running two cat5 feeds to other parts of the house. Basic ATT VDSL has enough bandwidth to stream Hulu movies on both devices at the same time.

Unless you have a lot of money to waste, you can find "almost" everything online for free that Comcast offers. If you don't have a smart TV; Roku, Sony, Samsung and many others offer devices to allow you to stream to your TV. Or you can stream to your smartphone or I watch movies in the bathroom on my iPad Mini over WiFi....... :O
Title: Re: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: Ripsnort on December 01, 2015, 07:04:48 PM
We dumped Comcrap 10 years ago and never looked back.

For cable TV.

I still do have Comcrap internet, I pay for a business line and it's a decent speed. Acceptable.
Title: Re: Comcast Entertainment Today Feature
Post by: Mar on December 01, 2015, 07:16:12 PM
there are two impossibilities here.

1) that you wrote this; expecting any serious result.
2) that you expect me to understand or be persuaded to any direction.

Correct on both accounts. :aok http://www.pakin.org/complaint/

Seriously, I'll just say that I don't like what I've heard about comcrap.