If you're feeling good about the market, you're not alone. Take my hand as we go over some of this week's more uplifting headlines.

1. Move along, couch potatoes
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) realizes that video subscribers expect more these days. The leading cable-television provider pulled the covers off its Fancast Xfinity TV site this week and allowed all subscribers to stream premium cable content on demand, at no additional charge.

Comcast knows firsthand that consumers are tiring of enjoying video programming exclusively through their televisions. It has seen its number of video subscribers shrink over the past year, with a loss of 656,000 net couch potatoes along the way.

Fancast Xfinity TV isn't magical elixir, but it is the bandage that will stop the bleeding. Account holders will think twice before cancelling their service, now that it's more valuable given its refreshing portability.

2. All's well that ends Wells
Like starlets adopting children from Third World countries, troubled banks are making the latest fashion statement among the "too big to fail" set by paying back their bailout proceeds. Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) became the latest banking giant to seek to make itself square with the government.

Yes, these deals have been highly dilutive to shareholders, but at least the financial-services heavyweights are doing this now that their stocks have bounced back sharply off their lows.

The banks have greedy intentions here, naturally. They want the government out of their hair, free to dictate pay practices and decide who gets the corporate jet over the holidays. At the end of the day, it's still a positive if it eliminates the risk exposure the taxpayers have taken on.

3. You're gold, man
I took Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) to task last week, after the investment banker downgraded the target price prospects of the discount-brokerage industry. I boiled down the motivational factor to envy.

Well, I'm chowing down on some crow right now. Charles Schwab (NASDAQ:SCHW) talked down its earnings for the current quarter this week, when it argued that a slowdown in trading activity and the high costs of having to waive fees on its money market funds will persist a while longer. That's practically a carbon copy of Goldman's bearish thesis on the discounters a week ago.

Goldman Sachs was right after all -- this time.

4. Thinking inside the Redbox
I figured that Viacom (NYSE:VIA) wasn't the type to rock the boat, but the Paramount parent is breaking from the pack of Redbox-dissing movie studios by extending its revenue-sharing deal with the $1-per-night DVD-rental kiosks.

Obviously, Viacom sees something promising in its partnership with Coinstar's (NASDAQ:CSTR) Redbox, even when rival studios want to keep their latest releases out of the automated kiosks. The extension will keep a fresh supply of Paramount flicks coming to Redbox through at least next summer.

It's refreshing to see a movie studio that isn't simply smoking out external scapegoats to blame for the past few years of declining DVD sales. 

5. I'll have a six-piece order of Chicken McWi-Fi
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) is kicking in with free Wi-Fi at its fast-food restaurants next month. The company's provider currently charges $2.95 for two hours of access -- but it never made sense to price connectivity at the same level of three McChicken sandwiches from the Dollar Menu.

I know what you're thinking: You've never seen anyone paying for connectivity at Mickey D's. You're probably right, and that's why McDonald's isn't really kissing a fat revenue stream goodbye.

It's hard to imagine folks lugging their laptops and netbooks over to McDonald's for free Wi-Fi and pecking at their keyboards with fry-greased fingers. However, McDonald's is in the process of upgrading its premium beverages. Fancy coffees are there now. Smoothies and other high-end treats will come later.

Besides, if you're trying to convey a buck-stretching message, you're going to fail by installing tollbooths on routers.