The Xfinity remote app Comcast CEO Brian Roberts showed off progressing this year is right away accessible in a app store for a iPad and iPhone. Currently they concede Comcast customers with compatible digital TV use to crop listings as well as On Demand calm from their moveable device and change channels right from the app. Video streaming, additional remote features and enhanced search are all promised for destiny releases, while other platforms should additionally get their own versions soon. Android apps have been betrothed for after this year, with Blackberry to follow. For right away, check out a press recover as well as original demo video embedded after a mangle or squeeze a app from iTunes as well as mangle out your Comcast e-mail residence to try it out prior to a live demo at 8:30 (EST) this dusk during a Web 2.0 conference. It might not be a softened interface for the cable boxes we’ve been awaiting for such the prolonged time, but it’s during least a step in which direction.Comcast Xfinity Remote for iPad

Show full PR textCOMCAST ANNOUNCES LAUNCH FOR XFINITY TV APP FOR IPAD
WITH THE ABILITY TO WATCH TV SHOWS AND MOVIES ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

Find What to Watch Quicker and Easier than Ever Before, Change Channels as well as Program DVRs –
Free for Comcast Digital Customers
SAN FRANCISCO and PHILADELPHIA – November 15, 2010 – Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) currently denounced the new Xfinity TV™ app, which will enable Xfinity TV digital customers to watch TV shows and cinema without delay upon the iPad™ possibly during home or on-the-go in the entrance weeks.

The Xfinity TV app is a TV beam as well as a mobile video player all in one. It enables business to change TV channels from the iPad as well as helps them to search and now find what to watch between thousands of choices – including top movies and reward cable shows – upon TV, On Demand, online or upon the iPad.

Demonstrated today during a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a initial chronicle of the app will be available on a iTunes Store® this week as well as is giveaway to Comcast digital customers. With it, business will be able to:
· Browse and discover video calm from possibly TV listings or selections from the On Demand library in the rich user interface with full of color poster art as well as sum.
· Use it as the TV guide so, in only a couple of finger taps, users can find what to watch by reviewing their TV listings and shift the channel in genuine time.

· Program their DVRs to record TV shows, array and cinema so they never miss their favorites.

Sort calm formed upon dissimilar filters like Networks and Genres such as Movies, Kids, Sports, or by HD calm.
Search by keyword or by title A-Z in TV listings or On Demand.
Watch cinema and TV shows without delay on a iPad anytime, anywhere (coming in December).
Personalize observation with a “MyTV” underline to create a “Watchlist” of the one preferred TV shows as well as cinema (coming soon).
Seamlessly entrance amicable networking sites to share what they’re examination with others (coming shortly.

“This Xfinity TV app is partial of a most incomparable effort to reinvent a way consumers interact with their televisions by transforming a way they poke, navigate, discover as well as share entertainment,” pronounced Neil Smit, President of Comcast Cable. “The remote carryout hasn’t altered in years as well as this app will capacitate millions of consumers to now poke thousands of live TV and On Demand choices and also watch a most appropriate calm at your convenience and wherever they want.”

Initially, Comcast will suggest strike shows and blockbuster cinema from the tip reward networks upon a app. In the entrance weeks as well as months, the app will goon to enhance the calm as well as functionality through the series of unchanging development updates. It will embody thousands of one more entertainment choices, combined remote control facilities, as well as enhanced poke across platforms.

This week’s launch upon a iTunes Store is a initial in a series of scheduled app releases Comcast’s growth group will broach for iPad, iPhone® as well as iPod touch®. Comcast will launch several Android™ apps this year as well as additionally plans to suggest apps with identical functionality upon as most different inclination as possible together with BlackBerry® as well as other smartphones, tablets, laptops as well as PCs. Comcast first offering its popular communications app on a iTunes Store for giveaway to customers in 2009, that enables business to view integrated email, voice mail, embrace home voice mail alerts as well as conduct calendars, between other facilities.

The Xfinity TV app is an additional e.g. of a company’s incomparable joining to broach some-more choice as well as control to the customers by its Xfinity services, that embody 150,000 online entertainment choices by Xfinity TV (at www.xfinitytv.com) as well as alternative applications which enable customers to program the DVR from the Internet or the mobile device, and cross-platform facilities similar to Caller ID to a TV as well as PERSONAL COMPUTER.

To sense some-more about the iPad app, please revisit www.xfinity.com/tvapp. To revisit Web 2.0 Summit online, go to www.web2summit.com/web2010.

About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is a single of the nation’s heading providers of party, information and information exchange products and services. With 22.9 million video business, 16.7 million high-speed Internet customers, as well as 8.4 million Comcast Digital Voice business, Comcast is predominantly concerned in the development, government as well as operation of cable systems and in a smoothness of programming content.

Comcast’s content networks as well as investments embody E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, CONTRA, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, 11 informal sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast’s Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has the infancy ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, which owns dual professional sports teams, a Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball group and a Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey group, as well as the large, multipurpose arena in Philadelphia, a Wells Fargo Center, as well as, by Global Spectrum, manages alternative facilities for sporting events, concerts and alternative events.

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