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 can see it happening now, a VOD war between Comcast and Netflix. Netflix subscribers yelling for paying $7.99 a month, while the Comcast customers waves their pitchforks in the air for Streampix that is $4.99 along with their $100 a month cable bill. Somehow I don’t see a mass exodus from Netflix to Comcast over it. For Comcast customers this might be a great ad don for their service to et even more on demand content that Comcast thinks is better then the streaming they already have free for their subscribers. Working at DISH I have seen many providers including DISH come out with service just for their customers, in fact I think that it was one of the things that people gauge a provider on is there on demand content. The networks listed on the article all stream on DISH online which is included with my subscription, so I can get thousands of on demand shows and movies for no extra price.
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