WSJ.com reports that Comcast, facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire. The country’s largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting the same technology standard that upstart Internet rivals have used to challenge traditional pay-TV business models.
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