All Articles Tagged Streaming

Grant Clauser | 02/23 09:43 AM, 7 Comments

Comcast just announced that it will offer a video streaming service, called Xfinity Streampix, to Xfinity subscribers. Depending on your cable/internet package, the price for the service could be $5 a month or free (depending on how stuffed your subscriber package is). So far the early news looks like it’s just for TV programming, but movies may be included or added eventually. Several news reports have been positioning this announcement as a shot across the bow to Netflix. I’m not so sure about that. It seems at one level more… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 11/01 09:11 AM, 5 Comments

Netflix launched 1080p streaming in 2010, but we've barely seen it in smart TVs, networked Blu-ray players and other common CE devices from top brands such as Samsung, LG and Tivo. Netflix 1080p was supported exclusively by the Playstation 3 when it launched last year, and since then has trickled out to media players from Roku and Western Digital. Netflix only this summer released a software developers kit for everyone else, and those everyone elses are finally incorporating the technology into their new and legacy devices (via firmware upgrade). That's… View this story