Emergency management procedures dictate that power must be restored first and Comcast must receive clearance that it is safe for its crews to begin any restoration work.
Many of the competing streaming devices that are already well-established have acted as gateways for consumers to abandon cable TV subscriptions. "We're looking at smart TVs on a global basis, and we're wondering: Can we bring our tech stack, or certain capabilities in aggregation, to consumers who are relying more and more on smart TVs?" Roberts said at the conference.Ĭomcast said it plans to make the XiOne device available in the near future to its Xfinity X1 customers and syndication partners, such as Cox Communications, in North America and other worldwide markets. It could be available as soon as the end of the year.Ĭomcast CEO Brian Roberts signaled during last year's Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference that the company was heading in this direction. Protocol reported last week that Comcast has been working with Walmart and Hisense to develop its own ClassX TV brand. XiOne supports Wi-Fi 6, 4K UHD, HDR, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, putting Comcast's hardware in the league of competitors whose devices are now commonplace both as standalones and as connected-TVs in partnership with manufacturers. Though Comcast's broadband subscriptions surged during the pandemic in 2020, its cable video subscribers have dwindled over the last year, falling by another 399,000 in the second quarter of 2021.
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also has begun for those with Xfinity Flex, the company's free 4K streaming device for internet-only customers. The new platform – pronounced "X - I - One" – already has been made available to Sky Q customers in Italy and Germany. Comcast will take on established streaming leaders Roku, Amazon Fire and others with the launch of its new XiOne platform, the cable giant's first wireless streaming device.