I was watching TV this morning and the below commercial came on advertising a new Comcast feature called Anyroom OnDemand
The gist of it is if you are watching an OnDemand program in one room you can stop it and continue watching the show where you left off in another room. I am not sure how long this has been available as this was the first time I have seen the commercial but my wife said she has seen it a few times.
Wanting to learn more about Anyroom OnDemand I went to the website (http://www.comcast.com/anyroom/) at the end of the commercial. The website basically explains how it works and says all you need to get the feature is to subscribe to digital cable. But there was a buy button at the bottom of the screen so I was not sure if there was an extra charge. I was also a little unsure that it would work with my setup as I have a standard DCT700 box upstairs and a DCH3416 with HD and TIVO downstairs. The DCH3416 has a different type of software installed so I was doubtful that it would actually work. Only one way to find out....
I went to my upstairs TV and started to watch one of the free movies and then made sure it went to my saved programs. Then I went downstairs checked my saved programs and there it was, I selected the program and it started playing where it left off. Pretty cool!!!
Not sure how much I will actually use this feature but it is nice to know that it is there and is free. My only complaint is that Comcast did not notify me of this new feature. I am on all of their new product release email lists and was not aware of it until now. Seems like it would be cheaper to send out an email to customers rather than buy commercial time.
