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The iPad is a perfect accessory for the living room table, and Comcast’s forthcoming remote control app, the Xfinity Remote, capitalizes on that by pairing your iPad to your cable box through Bluetooth, allowing you to easily search listings and access movies on demand through an extremely attractive interface.
Additionally, Xfinity comes with some powerful social and sharing features, which allows you to share television or movies that you’re watching with other friends, even if they’re not in front of the same television.
You can find more information about Xfinity Remote here. It looks great, but at the end of the day, perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the app is that it’s for Comcast instead of a better cable provider.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
8 responses to “Comcast’s New Xfinity Remote App Turns Your iPad Into A Cable Box Remote”
Another pretty sweet deal from Xfinity is the all 3d content channel they just launched:
http://xfinityinformation.com/…
If you couple this with the Xfinity Quad Tuner DVR seen here http://www.xfinityinformation.com , these free apps on android and iOS plus the new lower programming pricing, Xfinity should be gaining subscribers quickly.
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