Comcast XiOne box could also be Sky Q IP in the waiting

(Pocket-lint) - Comcast has announced a tiny streaming container successful the US that could beryllium a motion of what's to travel during Sky's "magical" lawsuit successful October.

The Comcast XiOne wireless streaming container is rolling retired successful the States to Xfinity Flex customers. The aforesaid hardware is besides utilized for the Sky Q IP container successful Germany and Italy. It stands to reason, particularly fixed the timing of its US release, that it'll signifier the bosom of Sky UK's large satellite-free Sky Q work too.

Sky is owned by Comcast, with the US elephantine outbidding Disney for the British broadcaster and tech steadfast backmost successful 2018. Technology developed by Sky and different Comcast brands tin truthful beryllium shared betwixt the group.

"When Sky joined the Comcast family, we brought unneurotic our engineers to stock insights, roadmaps, talent, and exertion to enactment our planetary customers. The motorboat of our caller XiOne instrumentality is simply a nonstop effect of these efforts and underscores however our collaborative improvement attack tin bring caller and innovative streaming products to markets faster and much efficiently,” said Comcast's president of technology, Charlie Herrin.

The XiOne container supports Wi-Fi 6, 4K UHD, HDR, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos. It besides includes dependable search. Basically, each the attributes needed to contiguous a Sky Q acquisition implicit the net alternatively than outer dish.

The Xfinity Flex TV streaming work comes escaped for each Xfinity Internet subscribers successful the US.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 23 September 2021.