CEO Brian Roberts shows off Fancast, a beta service to be rolled out later this year Pretty soon, Comcast subscribers will have access to video nirvana or video on-demand, on steroids. That’s according to Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, who showed off Fancast, the cable companies on-demand video service that's in beta at the moment but will be formally released by the end of this year.The online service will be "much better than the TV experience because we’re not bound by storage in your box," said Roberts, who was being interviewed by John Battelle, founder of Federated Media, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco late Tuesday afternoon. "Here’s every episode of Entourage ever," Roberts explained as he walked through the beta version of the Fancast site.It's like "video nirvana," said Roberts."Or video on steroids." ...   [ Read more ]