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Comcast has soft-launched its TV and movie portal Fancast today, after hyping it up back in April. The site is a portal for fans of movies, TV shows, actors and directors, aiming to be “the one place where you can find what to watch, where to watch, when to watch it - plus all the video, photos and facts you crave.”
I guess you could think of it as the Internet Movie Database meets YouTube...find a movie you like, and you can buy tickets to it through Fandango, the ticketing site Comcast acquired in April.
There's also a "My Fancast" section where you can save and rate your favorite movies and shows. Other features include tagging and a game called "Six Degrees", which helps you find relationships between actors, shows and movies in a system inspired by the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. There are TV listings, too.
For now, the videos on the site are just clips, but eventually you'll be able to watch full length TV shows and movies from Comcast, plus NBC, Fox and all those involved with the nameless News Corp-NBC "YouTube killer" dubbed "NewSite".
It's fairly underwhelming. At first there appears to be plenty of content, but digging in reveals it's merely a prettier version of IMDB, with a video section that doesn't work yet. Not quite ready for primetime.
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