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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Man will be the best VOD price war ever and most likely the most lopsided ever seen. Look at it this way, Netflix subscribers pay $7.99 for streaming while Comcast subscribers pay $4.99 for streaming on top of a $100 a month cable bill or higher or lower depending on what they have, but yea its high. $104.99 verses $7.99, oh yea I can totally see people running away from Netflix to get this. Comcast has made the first on demand pay tier in the pay TV industry. While they offer tons of content for all their customers, now we have this new tier of streaming, with cool channels and full seasons that they are going to make you pay more for. 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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