MUMBAI: US-based Comcast has added an update to its service that provides video-on-demand streaming to the subscribers‘ mobile devices. The update by the cable television and broadband internet services provider to Comcast Xfinity TV player, launched early last year, allows the option to download somes content for offline viewing.
Available simultaneously on iOS and Android, the Xfinity TV Player apps support downloads from premium channels Showtime (which was also one of the first up for streaming), Starz, Encore and MoviePlex.
The user has to be logged in and have any of those channels in the subscribed package. The option to download is next to the usual stream button with options available for two different levels of picture quality.
