Meerkat and Periscope have nothing on Comcast.
Taking aim at a buzzing and increasingly controversial arena, Comcast entered the mobile live streaming game last week with Xfinity Share, an app that lets X1 customers send live video streams, recorded video and digital photos to the TV as well as to other smartphones.
It’s a feature and product area that’s going mainstream thanks to the popularity of two recently launched apps — Meerkat and Twitter’s Periscope. Comcast, however, was a bit ahead of the game, as it began to test its app last year under a different label, “MyMedia.”
Now ready for prime time, Xfinity Share allows X1 customers to serve up content (up to HD quality) to certain friends, family and other authorized users. X1 subscribers who take advantage of the app can send live streams or distribute recorded video and photos to their own X1 set-tops for display on the TV or to the TV of another X1 customer.
To use Xfinity Share, a free app initially offered on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, currently both the sender and receiver must be Xfinity Triple Play customers with X1 DVR-capable set-top boxes, Comcast said. However, Comcast plans to add functionality later this year that will allow those X1 triple-play subscribers to share content with virtually anyone — Comcast customer or not — by sending a URL via email.
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Source: www.broadcastingcable.com
Kenneth Carnesi holds a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School and a Professional Certificate in International Banking from Harvard Law School. Kenneth Carnesi is the Director of Operations and Government Sales at Anaptyx LLC and sits on the Boards of The Lazarus Organization, Monkeetech LLC and MG Madison Phillips, Inc. Mr. Carnesi has also founded CICG - Carnesi International Consulting Group, a company specializing in strategy consulting to small to mid-size businesses.
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