@lumpblockclod said:

@J_D_G said:

Someone actually said the original poster is "sooo lucky" that the webcasts are offered in the first place, so he shouldn't complain when he buys a webcast and it doesn't work. Let me ask: is that the attitude YOU use toward ANYTHING in the real world that you buy? "Oh, this tv I just bought doesn't turn on...but I'm soooo lucky the store sells them at all, so my bad, them's the breaks"???

So true. Gee, Comcast really doesn't deliver on their promised download speeds, but just 20 short years ago I was using a dial-up modem and this is faster than that. I guess I'm pretty lucky and the good people at Comcast can go ahead and keep my money. Wouldn't want to come across as a whiney bitch.

My point was simply there didn't use to be this option and it's lucky you even have it. Most bands don't go out of their way to make themselves that accessible to the fans. And if you buy a TV and it shits out, they give you a new TV. If you buy a webcast and it shits out, they give you a new webcast. If your new TV doesn't work during the super bowl do you go to the store and whine about how it ruined your party or do you say "my tv broke.. Id like a new one."

I'm almost forty. I come from a land of chasing down tapes and SASE sent across the country. My first modem was 5600 bps. The fact I can stream a show live on mixlr or watch it via webacast was a pipedream when I came on the scene. I wake up every morning and download the SBDs. It's so very easy now and I don't take it for granted. I also don't cry when it doesn't work out exactly the way I want it to.

It should be fixed. The technology is there. I just took exception to the ROCK BOTTOM part. Priorities.