Cost | What to Enjoy | Features | News & Updates | Sales Info

Cost: Free, plus a Paid On-Demand subscription

What to enjoy:
Established by cable provider, Comcast (and part of their Interactive Media Department), Fancast offers a wide selection of TV show clips, full length episodes, feature length movies, and trailers. While Fancast is offered by Comcast, you don’t need to be a subscriber to enjoy the videos.

Third-Party Features:
Content is streamed from feeds via Hulu (for Fox and NBC shows), TV.com (for CBS shows), and ABC (for their shows) the latter opens in a separate ABC video player. Their TV content is quite extensive, and you can browse for shows from dozens of TV networks: Click here to browse.

For your movie fix, Fancast’s library is just as extensive as that on Hulu’s, and it includes much of the same movies as well. For a fee, Fancast’s On-Demand service gives you the most recent movie releases (movies that just hit DVD). Both SD and HD quality are offered, designed to be best optimized by your screen resolution.

Links to content:

Fancast is currently only offered online, though CNET explains how you can access Fancast via the iPhone.

News & Updates:
Video Business (07/09/2009): Starz puts content in Comcast’s OnDemand trial – “Starz Entertainment will join Comcast’s OnDemand Online trial, enabling subscribers to both services to watch select Starz movies and original programming on Fancast.com and Comcast.net at no extra charge.” {Read More}

Sales Info & Figures:
Forbes.com (08/05/2009): Comcast Set To Broadcast Q2 Earnings – “Investors will be tuning in to second-quarter earnings from cable provider Comcast on Thursday morning to see whether it will echo Time Warner Cable’s disappointing comments regarding growth trends for the rest of the year.” {Read More}