Comcast does away with clocks
Cory Bergman April 5th, 2007
Comcast is running a new series of TV ads called “Channel 1″ to promote their On Demand service. One of the ads features people on a tour through the Channel 1 facility, and it pokes fun at traditional TV. A Comcast employee is seen throwing away clocks. “We have no use for clocks here,” says the tour guide, because you can watch shows whenever you want On Demand. Then a Comcast employee is wrestling with some old guy, rips the man’s clock away and stuffs it down a woodchipper. “We can get a little overzealous sometimes,” says the tour guide.
You can watch the ad on ComcastCh1.com, but it’s a pain to find.
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1. Gene | April 5th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Gosh, it would be nice if they’d also throw away the incredibly annoying banner ad they’ve added to the bottom of their program guide. Not only does it reduce the number of channels listed on screen in the guide, but it intercepts the down selection when scrolling through the guide.
And another annoyance: it used to be that increased advertising led to lower prices. Not in this case. Comcast raised its rates significantly at the beginning of the year, just before it introduced advertising on the guide.
Gee, without a clock, how will they know what time it was when I cancelled my service?
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