DVR maker TiVo is preparing to split its company into two businesses: one, focused on its products like its Bolt family of DVRs, and the other on its licensing and intellectual property businesses. The move will help to address some of the complexities with those businesses, TiVo Interim CEO Raghu Rau, explained, which may make […]
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The Super Bowl gets voice-enabled
Amazon, Dish, Comcast and others are hoping to turn Super Bowl 2019 into a way to show off the potential for their voice technologies and TV integrations. The companies this week have been touting new features and a variety of voice commands that will allow viewers to get prepared for the big game, learn about […]
View More The Super Bowl gets voice-enabledComcast debuts a subscription service to protect against threats to smart home devices
Comcast is putting AI to work to protect its customers’ home networks. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced Xfinity xFi Advanced Security, an AI-powered service designed to monitor, block and inform customers about online threats while providing protection for all connected devices in the home — including smart home and […]
View More Comcast debuts a subscription service to protect against threats to smart home devicesDigital movie collection app Movies Anywhere adds its first pay TV partner, Comcast
Movies Anywhere, the Disney-led service movie service operated in partnership Universal, WB, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox, is adding its first pay TV partner. Starting today, Comcast Xfinity TV customers will be able to sync their accounts with Movies Anywhere in order to access their movie purchases from the Xfinity Digital Store alongside those […]
View More Digital movie collection app Movies Anywhere adds its first pay TV partner, ComcastComcast outbids Fox in $40B battle for Sky
Comcast has outbid Twenty-First Century Fox for the UK’s Sky, a final step in what’s been a years-long takeover battle between the two media conglomerates.
View More Comcast outbids Fox in $40B battle for SkyBuy tickets for concerts on TV with the new Comcast and Ticketmaster feature
Comcast and Ticketmaster are rolling out a feature to let Xfinity X1 customers search tour dates and begin the ticket buying process directly through their televisions — using voice search on their remotes. The feature’s launch coincides with the first tickets going on sale for Kelly Clarkson’s new tour. If users speak “Kelly Clarkson tour” […]
View More Buy tickets for concerts on TV with the new Comcast and Ticketmaster featureSamsung turns to Plume for new mesh Wifi product line
Samsung today is announcing an updated version of its Wifi product line. The company partnered with Palo Alto-based Plume Design to provide software that powers the devices. According to Samsung, Plume’s platform uses artificial intelligence to allocate bandwidth across connected devices while delivering the best possible wifi coverage throughout a home. Plus, by using Plume, […]
View More Samsung turns to Plume for new mesh Wifi product lineAmazon Prime Video is coming to Comcast Xfinity X1
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Not all cable companies are afraid of streaming. Some, in fact, are embracing it.
Comcast announced on Thursday that Amazon Prime Video is coming to Xfinity X1. This will allow users to access the service directly from their set-top boxes.
This is the first time a cable company has made Prime Video available from a set-top box. Comcast lets people stream YouTube and Netflix — and access live TV, DVR, and On Demand content — from the same box.
Customers will be able to launch Prime Video with their X1 Voice Remote. And if they have the right equipment, they can watch 4K content from Amazon. Read more…
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Comcast and Amazon today announced a new partnership that will see Amazon’s Prime Video service integrated into Comcast’s Xfinity TV set-top boxes. This is the first time that Prime Video content would be added to a cable operator’s platform in the U.S.. It’s also a particularly interesting choice on Comcast’s part, given that Amazon is directly […]
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Netflix didn’t add as many subscribers as expected by a bunch of people on Wall Street who on a quarterly basis govern whether or not it’ll be more valuable than Comcast — and that is probably a bad thing, as it’s one of the primary indicators of its future potential for said finance folk. While […]
View More Netflix is falling off a cliffComcast is down all over the U.S.
No, it’s not just you.
The internet service provider America loves to hate, Comcast, is reportedly experiencing service outages across the U.S. And it’s bad.
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