Comcast Xfinity Day 1: What’s the Buzz?

Source: Zatz Not Funny!

Source: Zatz Not Funny!

Source: Zatz Not Funny!

Now that Comcast Fancast Xfinity TV is out of beta, the first reports are rolling in. Here’s what we heard today:

A Twitter search currently pulls up mostly news of Xfinity’s launch and commentary on the name change (my favorite tweet so far, from @ceciliakang: “Terrestrial loophole, Xfinity, Net Neutrality. Sometimes my world feels like a bad Star Trek episode.”)

Dan Rayburn of Streaming Media wasn’t impressed with his testing of the system, citing 10-second buffer times, high amounts of pixelation and poor frame rates.

Peter Kafka at All Things D was able to watch the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and thought that “it looked pretty good (as long you don’t fast-forward).”

But the much-missed Chris Albrecht also checked it out, and he had some choice words to describe his experience.

None of us are on Comcast, but we’re currently working on a way to get you a full review soon. So in the meantime, how about you, dear readers? Have you had a chance to play with the service? Love it or hate it, please let us know in the comments!

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