Streampix will be added to Xfinity triple-play packages as well as separately for $4.99 a month as a subscription video-on-demand offering; the plan is to eventually make the service available on Xbox 360 and Android devices. It will feature shows like 30 Rock, Lost and Married … With Children as well as kids programming as part of new content licensing deals. Here’s the gist of the release:
PHILADELPHIA, PA – February 21, 2011 – Comcast today announced the launch of Xfinity Streampix™, a new subscription video service that enables Xfinity video customers to instantly view favorite movies and TV shows in and out of the home, including numerous past seasons of current hit shows and full series, to multiple screens and devices including TVs (as a subscription On Demand folder), online platforms and mobile devices. This new service complements the 75,000 TV shows and movies currently available on Xfinity On Demand, XfinityTV.com and through the Xfinity TV app. To launch Streampix, Comcast has entered into licensing agreements with leading movie studios and programming providers including Disney-ABC Television Group*, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and Cookie Jar and built a line-up of top-rated content, which is available starting this week.
Past Full Seasons of TV Series
Movies · 30 Rock (NBC)
· Analyze That (Warner Bros. Pictures) · Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
· Brokeback Mountain (Universal) · Heroes (NBC)
· Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Sony) · Lost (ABC)
· Ocean’s Eleven (Warner Bros.Pictures) · Married…with Children (Sony)
· Stuart Little (Sony) · The Office (NBC)
· When Harry Met Sally (Warner Bros. Pictures) · Ugly Betty (ABC)
· The Big Lebowski (Universal) · The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family)
Kids Programming
· Inspector Gadget (Cookie Jar)
· Paddington Bear (Cookie Jar)
· Strawberry Shortcake (Cookie Jar)
· The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (Disney Channel)
· Wizards of Waverly Place (Disney Channel)



Wow, is this all they’re offering for $4.99/month? Lousy selection that you can already access on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc.
Too little, too late.
It should be free I pay enough money as it is now
Really? Comcast is adding more and more advertisments that I don’t want. My email home page looks more like the old free dial up sites. Automatic “rollover” ads are all over the place like land mines. I pay over $100 a month and they want $4.99 for this? I am seriously considering canceling all of my Comcast services. This is a sure sign that Comcast is stuggeling to stay alive. Join me and tell Com cast we have had enough! We want a fair prices and no ads!!
I’m having some difficulty seeing this as any kind of selling point for Xfinity with the anemic selection they have. It almost seems like they rushed it. I don’t know, maybe not, but considering that other companies have already done a more impressive job offering something similar, but better. For instance the Blockbuster @Home service I have through my employer, DISH. It’s cost effective as well, but not only does it give me the convenient streaming content, but also a bunch of high definition movie channels, and through-the-mail rentals of video-games and movies that can be taken into a Blockbuster store and exchanged if I want. That’s a far cry from this limited, one-trick-pony offering.
Comcast is pricey as it is. Just increased the Tripleplay package. This is not a goog incentive for customer. The rich get richer. Ridiculous