It was only a matter of time, right? The
Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast is rolling out a VOD competitor for
Amazon,
Netflix and
Hulu so it can grab a slice of the streaming video pie. Called Xfinity Streampix, it brings shows from NBC and ABC, along with movies from Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Scheduled to launch this Thursday, the service will be rolled in for free with some existing cable packages and available on its own for $4.99 a month. For your five bucks, you get access to a back catalog of shows and movies on any internet-capable device, though, naturally we don't know exactly how much content will be available when it goes live. What we do know is that price point puts Streampix well beneath the $7.99 asking price of its competition, so here's hoping a VOD price war ensues.
Update: Check out the official PR after the break for more details, including a list of the content coming to Streampix and Comcast's plans to bring VOD to the Xbox 360 and Android.
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I don’t understand where you get a VOD price war out of this because it is hard to start a war when they don’t compete with each other. Streampix is only available for Comcast customers, while the others are stand alone. Streampix seems to me to be more of a pay tier for their on demand content they already had, and no other perks to it. That is the problem I have with streaming only services, you are limited to the content that they have to stream which is why I left Netflix when they raised the price. Since I also work at Dish I knew about the Blockbuster at home package. It gives me access to 20 movie channels, thousand of on demand movies and shows, and the best part for me, DVD by mail. That way when I get a wild hair to watch a season of 24 I don’t have to search, I can just have it mailed to me.
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