Comcast is introducing YouTube TV to its Xfinity Flex gadgets, offering customers one other avenue for opting out of conventional cable.
YouTube was beforehand supported on Comcast’s Flex packing containers, however the addition of YouTube TV provides customers the flexibility to get some 85-plus reside tv channels for $65 per thirty days. It’s not the primary reside TV streaming service to reach on the platform — Sling and Hulu with Reside TV have been already supported. But it surely does diversify the streaming choices for individuals who don’t wish to pay Comcast for cable.
Colin Petrie-Norris, senior vice chairman of client leisure at Xfinity, mentioned in a press release that the addition of YouTube TV “is one other instance of how we encompass our broadband service with worth, giving our clients entry to all their most popular content material and subscriptions on one machine.”
It’s a curious transfer from a cable supplier, nevertheless it additionally is smart if Comcast desires to remain aggressive towards different over-the-top packing containers like Roku, Hearth TV Stick, or Chromecast — all of which assist YouTube TV. Presently, Comcast supplies the packing containers to its Xfinity Web clients at no extra price, nevertheless it does want folks to make use of them. And meaning supporting standard apps.
YouTube TV is out there to Flex customers starting right now.
Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s mother or father firm.
