Excerpted from Multichannel Newswebminster wrote:....Comcast ruined the WMC experience for me, except for using WMC as a music and Bluray/DVD library. I'd like to see signal changes that make WMC enjoyable again for me, but I don't expect any. The next real step I expect from them will be the IPTV rollout, and forcing people toward their X1 platform....
....Am just very sure that they have an agenda, and it's really not focused on customer satisfaction or picture quality. It's how much money that can make on their ISP side, and how much they can minimize losses on the TV side.
7/27/17
Comcast Slates Q3 Rollout of ‘Instant TV’
In-home, managed IPTV service primarily will target millennials, eschew traditional set-tops
Comcast expects to have “Instant TV,” an IP-delivered, in-home, in-footprint video service that eschews traditional set-top boxes, in the third quarter of 2017, Dave Watson, Comcast Cable’s president and CEO, confirmed Thursday during the company’s earnings call.
He stressed that Comcast will continue to focus on X1, its full-freight pay TV offering. About 55% of Comcast’s video base is now on X1, compared to 40% a year ago. Comcast lost 45,000 video subs in Q2, ending the period with 21.47 million.
Notably, Instant TV will be sold in Comcast’s traditional cable footprint. Comcast has repeatedly stressed that the economics of an out-of-footprint OTT offering don’t add up, even though it has been locking in rights to distribute some programming on an OTT basis.
Comcast continued to see strong results from broadband, as it added 140,000 residential high-speed internet subs in Q2, extending that total to 23.36 million. And Comcast is confident that it can continue to grow that part of the business.
“There is significant runway ahead in broadband,” Watson said, noting that penetration stands at just 45%. Comcast also expects to make 1-Gig speeds available using DOCSIS 3.1 across the majority of its footprint by year-end.
In addition to providing faster speeds (55% of Comcast’s residential broadband subs take tiers of 100 Mbps ore greater), Comcast will be looking to differentiate with “xFi,” its new in-home WiFi platform that is powered by its lineup of integrated gateways, Watson said.
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