Comcast and Amazon have announced the availability of Prime Video on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform. Millions of Xfinity customers will now have access to a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience featuring seamless availability to award-winning Prime Video originals, thousands of premium shows, movies, and live events right alongside all of the live, on demand and web programming […]
Study Finds Visually Impaired Adults Tune-In To Television Almost As Much As General Public
Comcast and the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) recently released a survey of people with visual disabilities showing that a majority watch four or more hours per day – almost as much as the general public. Many of those surveyed report that today’s assistive technologies like video description, text-to-speech and voice control are helpful as […]
NBC Olympics to Provide Video Description for its Production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang
With the 2018 Winter Olympics underway, NBC Olympics and Comcast are proud to announce their partnership with Descriptive Video Works to provide video description services (VDS) for viewers with visual disabilities watching coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. This is the second consecutive time NBC has provided an inclusive viewing […]
Xfinity X1 Delivers Super Bowl LII Experience
The X1 platform from Xfinity has some great new features to bring fans the most immersive Super Bowl viewing experience yet. For example, saying “Super Bowl” or “The Big Game” into the X1 voice remote will pull up a variety of On Demand destinations, including playoff highlights, the latest post-season news and analysis, Super Bowl […]
Comcast to Extend Access to Home Automation Services to More Than 15 Million Customers
Xfinity customers will be able to manage smart home devices – from August, Honeywell, Kwikset, Lutron, Nest, Tile, and dozens of others – at home, on-the-go, and on every screen. Comcast plans to significantly expand its home automation capabilities across the company’s entire Xfinity services product portfolio, which includes X1 (TV and voice remote), xFi […]
