Comcast to Launch Xfinity Streampix Service this Week: Netflix Rival?
By Karla Robinson
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
- On Thursday, Comcast will launch Xfinity Streampix, “its own streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a similar selection [to Netflix] of old TV shows and movies over the Web,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
- “Comcast’s new service will include such shows as ’30 Rock,’ from its own NBCUniversal unit and ‘Lost’ from Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, as well as movies like ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’ from Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. The programs, typically of prior seasons of shows, will be available on the Web and on mobile devices to subscribers in and out of the home, similarly to Netflix’s offering,” according to WSJ.
- Compared to Netflix’s $7.99/month cost, the service will only cost Comcast customers $4.99/month. Streampix will also be made available for no additional charge to more than two million customers who subscribe for premium tiers of video service.
- With Comcast’s 23 million subscriber base, Netflix subscriptions might be challenged.
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