It’s time for your yearly Comcast Project Infinity video on-demand update: It’s ramping up to 11,000 different movies available, with 3,000 in HD (up from 1,000 back in October ‘08) and that infrastructure upgrade we’d heard about should mean even more on the way. CEO Brian Roberts just announced at the Cable Show that the service is up to 350 million orders per month, and if it were a linear channel, VOD would be Comcast’s second most-watched offering. The online Fancast XFINITY TV offering is no slouch either, with 1,500 movies from cable and 5,500 movies on the site for rent or purchase. The first areas to see the expanded offerings will be Washington D.C. and Philadelphia before rolling out elsewhere. Of course that’s all great, but we’re going to slot a redesigned 16×9 UI and multiroom capabilities slightly above more VOD possibilities on the interest scale for now.
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