Apple TV+ is now obtainable throughout Comcast’s Xfinity platforms, Comcast introduced on Monday. The corporate mentioned Apple TV+ is starting to roll out on the Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and XClass TV at the moment and shall be obtainable throughout all eligible gadgets within the coming days.
Now you can entry Apple TV+ by saying “Apple TV+” into your Xfinity voice distant or by saying the identify of a film or TV you need to watch from the streaming service, equivalent to “Ted Lasso” or “The Morning Present.”
As a part of the rollout, Xfinity customers will be capable of preview among the streaming service’s content material with no sign-up or sign-in crucial from March 15 to 21, together with the brand new movie “Greyhound” and the primary seasons of a number of of its sequence. As well as, Comcast says Xfinity clients who aren’t at the moment Apple TV+ subscribers are eligible for a three-month free trial of Apple TV+ after they sign-up via their Xfinity system by April 25.
“Apple TV+ presents the best high quality programming from the best creators on the planet, and the most effective methods to get pleasure from it’s on the large TV in your front room,” mentioned Peter Stern, Apple’s Vice President of Providers, in an announcement concerning the launch. “Our work with Comcast lights up that have for tens of hundreds of thousands of latest gadgets, and we’re thrilled that so many Comcast clients have a compelling strategy to get pleasure from their new favourite reveals on Apple TV+,” he added.
The corporate first revealed plans to help Apple’s streaming service final October when Comcast CEO Brian Roberts promised that the Apple TV app could be obtainable on Comcast platforms.
Apple TV+ debuted in November 2019 for Apple clients and later rolled out to non-Apple platforms together with, that very same yr, Roku gadgets and Amazon’s Hearth TV platform. At the moment, it’s additionally now obtainable throughout quite a lot of sensible TVs by Samsung, LG, Vizio and Sony; gaming consoles together with PlayStation (PS4 & PS5) and Xbox (One, Sequence X, Sequence S); and by way of the net. In December, the service launched on Sky gadgets (Sky Q and Sky Glass) within the U.Ok. and Europe.
The growth comes a day earlier than Apple’s subsequent large occasion, scheduled for 10 AM PT (1 PM ET) on March 8. The corporate may use this chance to introduce a refreshed iPhone SE with 5G connectivity, an up to date iPad Air with higher specs throughout the board, new Mac fashions with Apple Silicon and extra.
