Comcast to Offer Live Streaming on Tablets

PHILADELPHIA: Comcast Corporation is opening up in-home streaming for live and on-demand content this year on tablet devices, with further plans to offer some 3,000 hours of on-demand content through a new feature on the Xfinity TV iPad app.

Customers will be able to watch live news, TV shows and movies through Apple’s iPad as well as Android-powered tablets.

Comcast also has new plans for its Xfinity TV service. A new "play now" feature on the popular Xfinity TV iPad app will enable customers to watch nearly 3,000 hours of on-demand content, including movies and hit TV shows. Comcast plans to bring thousands of additional choices to the iPad in the weeks and months ahead. The same functionality and content will head to Android-powered devices later this year. “Live streaming and the play now feature on our Xfinity TV app are two important pieces of our strategy to deliver any content to any device, any time,” said Brian L. Roberts, the chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation. “Comcast has a series of upcoming online enhancements and app releases that are part of a much larger effort to reinvent how customers interact with their entertainment on TV, online and on mobile devices.”

Another new feature from Comcast will enable customers to search for their favorite programs and to change channels on a TV set from a computer via XfinityTV.com. Users can browse, search and find TV and on-demand content online and then select and watch it on their TVs or program their DVRs to record for later viewing. XfinityTV.com currently offers more than 150,000 online video choices, and growing.