Comcast’s Fix For Streaming Service Overload Is In Your Cable Box

Streaming has go a tangled web of subscriptions, and now Comcast says it tin thief by putting each your services into 1 hub. Comcast is launching a caller hub connected its set-top boxes, called the StreamStore, wherever you tin bargain and negociate subscriptions for much than 450 streaming apps and channels.

The StreamStore lives wrong Xfinity’s Xumo Stream Box and connected X1 devices. It’s also disposable connected nan web, and features a postulation of much than 200,000 movies and TV shows to rent aliases purchase. Xfinity will fto you adhd aliases driblet channels done nan store, while tacking connected caller subscriptions to your monthly net aliases TV bill, further positioning nan institution arsenic a benignant of streaming broker. 

Other cablegram / telecom companies for illustration Verizon person tried to measurement successful arsenic a integer subscription work middleman, though  Comcast is taking things a measurement further by putting this hub connected your TV. But is streaming really messy capable that you request Comcast to negociate it?

Some services included successful nan StreamStore see Netflix, Peacock, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, Hulu, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max, and complete 100 “niche” streaming subscriptions, according to LightReading. Xfinity already offers its ain StreamSaver bundle, which includes a subscription to Apple TV Plus, Netflix pinch ads, and Peacock’s ad-supported scheme for $15 per month.

The bundle is, of course, disposable done nan StreamStore, and Xfinity says it plans connected bringing caller streaming bundles, apps, and “enhanced subscription guidance and activation capabilities” to nan hub successful nan future.

(Disclosure: Comcast is an investor successful Vox Media, The Verge’s genitor company.)