US operator Comcast is now letting customers buy Xfinity TV, internet and home phone services via Amazon.com. Comcast said that move was part of its “multi-year effort to transform the customer experience” and that the deal would let customers easily find and subscribe to suitable service plans. “Amazon is not only the biggest online retailer and […]
Comcast-owned movie ticketing firm Fandango is to launch a transactional VoD service on March 30 after acquiring the M-GO platform earlier this year. US-based Fandango will rebrand M-GO as FandangoNOW, which will offer “massive library of new release and catalogue movies from all major studios and next-day TV shows for purchase and rental”. FandangoNOW, billed […]
Comcast has launched its new streaming cable TV service, Stream TV, in Chicago with plans to roll it out to its entire service area by early 2016. The over-the-top offering will include live channels from “all the major broadcast networks” and HBO, thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows and a cloud DVR. Stream TV […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Time Warner has been in talks with current owners Comcast, The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox about becoming an equal stakeholder in the platform. This would mean each of those companies, whose stakes currently sit around 33.3%, would drop down to 25%, with Time Warner also taking a […]
NextVR, a company that specialises in virtual reality live-event streams, has raised US$30.5 million in funding with participation from US pay TV giants Comcast and Time Warner. Venture capital firm Formation 8 led the funding, with Comcast Ventures and Time Warner Investments joining the round – throwing their support behind the new broadcasting technology. NextVR […]
US operator Comcast has partnered with more than 30 broadcast and cable networks to launch short-form web video on its connected X1 platform. The beta launch will initially focus on news, sports and current events like clips from NBC’s Today Show and Fox Sports Live. Comcast said that catalogue will expand as programmers look to […]
The world’s top 338 operators across 89 countries will increase their pay TV subscriptions by 200 million between 2014 and 2020, according to a new study. Digital TV Research’s Global Pay TV Operator Forecasts report claims that the collective number of subscriptions for these operators will increase from 704 million in 2014 to 904 million […]
US media giant Comcast has launched its ‘YouTube killer’, Watchable, a streaming site that debuts with videos from around 30 partners. Ad-funded Watchable has gone live in beta, with Comcast describing it as “a new, cross-platform video service that curates a selection of the best content from popular online video networks and shows in an […]
Liberty Global and Comcast will use new, open-source browser enhancements from Metrological to support enhanced IP, browser-based services and applications for set-top boxes. Announcing the deals, Metrological said it created the new open-source browser enhancements and will contribute them to the Reference Design Kit (RDK) software stack for use across the pay TV industry. Liberty […]
US cable provider Comcast is reportedly gearing up to launch a major new digital video platform called Watchable in an effort to take on the likes of YouTube. According to a Business Insider report, Comcast is planning to launch the service in the coming weeks and is partnering with digital publishers like Buzzfeed, Awesomeness TV […]
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