Airtel Unveils 'Xstream' STB, Smart Stick Ahead of Jio GigaFiber Launch - danielshusires

Ahead of the commercial launch of Jio Fibre on Thursday, Bharti Airtel on Monday announced the launch of Airtel Xstream which will offer Live TV, video, music, news, and sports across an OTT forward lodge, Internet-enabled lay out top box seat and give-held devices.

The Sunil Mittal keep company launched a set top box (STB) on with this service which has an in-built Chromecast and is being seen as a plainspoken competitor to Trust Jio's hybrid put away top boxwood which is expected to offer over the counter (OTT) content like Netflix, Hotstar and more along with Net services.

Jio is also likely to provide access to its OTT services like Jio TV, Jio Cinema and Jio Saavan including services corresponding gaming, television calling and virtual reality via the set top box.

With all the content on one platform, Airtel Xstream will bring amusement catalogues – hundreds of satellite TV channels, thousands of movies and shows in English, Hindi and multiple Indian languages, millions of songs, plus access to all the popular OTT entertainment apps on unitary platform, the company said at a conference here.

It enables customers to memory access all this content across the concealment of their option – TV, PC, and smartphone – with a incorporated User Port. Airtel's Xstream set top box would be capable of streaming DTH, OTT and IPTV content.

Priced at Rs 3,999, the Airtel Xstream Box bequeath offer a unpaid single year subscription (worth Rs 999) to all Airtel Xstream app content in addition to one month subscription to a HD DTH pack. All existing Airtel Integer TV customers can upgrade to Airtel Xstream Loge at a special Price of Rs 2,249.

On with the selection to choose from over 500 TV channels, the Airtel Xstream Box comes pre-installed with Airtel Xstream app (over 10,000 movies and shows), Netflix, Amazon Prime Video recording, YouTube and Airtel Lay in (for advanced gaming with high-conclusion artwork).

The Xstream program will integrate various OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hungama, Eros and Wynk. As part of this Robert William Service Airtel also launched its Xstream stick which is priced at Rs 3,999.

The Airtel Xstream Box has Badger State-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and well-stacked-in Chromecast. It comes with a general remote that features Google Assistant-based voice hunting and hot keys for Netflix, Amazon Blossom Video and YouTube.