Comcastic

Comcast’s recent television ads feature a snippet of an updated and redubbed portion of the $25,000 Pyramid televison show. In the update, the answer to the last question is “Things that are Comcastic”. The term Comcastic is silly but the commercial is clever.

Cable companies aren’t exactly beloved by most people. Cable service is expensive and sometimes flaky or troublesome. It’s pretty easy to find people who don’t like Comcast. That said, our recent experience with Comcast was pretty good. We added HD and DVR services to digital cable. The DVR is nice — it stores up to 80 hours of standard broadcasts or 20 hours of HD content. We’ve never owned a TiVo so I can’t compare the two services but with Comcast DVR there’s a single box and single remote for both cable and DVR. Not sure if it’s Comcastic or not but we’re pretty happy.