With VIOS already on board, Microsoft announced that Comcast Xfinity is joining as well.
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Once a user downloads WatchESPN, they will receive instructions to enter their Comcast Xfinity credentials to access their favorite ESPN content on their device.
This significant increase in movie content will begin launching in Comcast's Xfinity markets in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and will continue rolling out to Comcast Digital Cable customers across the country.
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With the addition of Comcast's Xfinity TV customers, WatchESPN is now available to 40 million subscribers.
New "Watch" products from Disney Channel, DisneyXD and Disney Junior will debut to Comcast's Xfinity TV subscribers later this year.
Comcast also obtained rights to air certain content from ESPN3, ESPN FullCourt and ESPN GamePlan on Comcast's Xfinity Sports Entertainment Package.
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Comcast launched its Xfinity Streampix offering in February 2012, allowing subscribers to complement their existing pay-TV packages with the additional streaming service.
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Comcast launched its Xfinity Streampix offering in Feb 2012, allowing its subscribers to complement their existing pay-TV packages with additional streaming service.
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The agreement will deliver Disney's top quality sports, news and entertainment content to Comcast's Xfinity TV customers into the next decade on televisions, computers, tablets and handheld devices.
For the first time ever, Comcast's Xfinity TV customers will be able to watch ESPN, ABC or Disney shows live or on demand and across multiple screens.
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These services will give Comcast's Xfinity TV customers more opportunities to access live and video on demand content, both in-home and out-of-home, on their computers, smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles.
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Comcast's XFINITY Home Security service provides intrusion and fire protection in addition to a host of interactive features including home monitoring, home management and energy management services, with the added benefits of web and mobile access.
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Today, Comcast's Xfinity TV offers the most live sports and more than 75, 000 TV shows and movies that are available anytime on Xfinity On Demand, XfinityTV.com and through the Xfinity TV app, as well as a suite of tools and features to personalize and manage viewing across screens.
To fill in the gap between products offered and services provided, Comcast has recently launched Xfinity Signature Support, an advancement in the direction of customer service.
To increase the convenience for its subscribers, Comcast offers on-demand video service and Xfinity Streampix streaming service.
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As far as Comcast is concerned, the company has launched its own Xfinity Streampix service for its own subscribers.
With this new offering, Comcast is looking to improve the overall customer experience with the Xfinity brand.
Comcast this morning announced a new suite of free services for Xfinity voice customers, including outbound calling over WiFi.
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With the possible exception of Comcast, which is aiming to give it a good try using its Xfinity and Xcalibur brands.
Netflix allows two video streams at once on one account, and Comcast allows up to three video streams at once for users of its Xfinity TV remote access.
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Disney Channel's subscription Video On Demand service, which offers on demand access to select episodes before they air, will now be available to Xfinity TV customers who receive Disney Channel, a service that Comcast will offer to these customers for no additional fee.
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To deliver on the growing consumer appetite for multiplatform entertainment viewing, Comcast offers a large collection of movies online at no additional cost on Fancast XFINITY TV.
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Comcast, a global media and technology company, today announced plans to bring Xfinity TV customers an all-access, free pass to the biggest TV catch-up in TV history from March 25-31.
However, the market exists for both, individual pickings as well as all-you-can-eat models, and Comcast seems to be positioned to capitalize on both with its traditional on-demand and Xfinity Streampix.
Specifically referring to the Comcast 250GB limit that has recently come under fire from Netflix and others now that its Xfinity TV app on Xbox 360 skirts the cap entirely, Aragon noted cable companies have the pipe and the bandwidth and can restrict competing services.
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Xfinity, it says, is unlike Internet video services like Netflix because it travels over Comcast's own private network and not the public Internet.
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Now, both current and new Comcast customers in Atlanta will have the option of building a great in-home experience through our Xfinity services, along with the reliability of Verizon Wireless' network while on-the-go.
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Xfinity iPad app is a nice piece of work, he says, and they (Comcast) are developing real Internet DNA. He says they will be a substantial competitor, and that they are both learning from each other.
"The scale of Xfinity Watchathon Week is enormous, " said Maggie Suniewick, Vice President, Video Services, Comcast Cable.
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