The Apple TV app has reached its last frontier: your cable supplier’s set-top field. According to Variety, Comcast used its newest earnings call to disclose that the Apple TV app might be out there on Comcast’s platforms within the “coming months.” Viewers with Xfinity X1 set-tops, Flex streaming hubs, XClass TVs and (within the UK and Europe) Sky Glass units can have entry to Apple TV+, in-app channels (like AMC+ and Showtime) and Apple’s regular video purchases and leases.

In alternate, Comcast is bringing its Xfinity Stream app to Apple TV {hardware}. The transfer will allow you to use the Apple TV machine both as a set-top stand in or to look at broadcasts on another person’s TV while you’re away.

This could also be a extra important enlargement than it appears. Apple’s streaming video app is out there on many sensible TVs, devoted media gamers and sport consoles along with the corporate’s personal merchandise, however there are numerous individuals whose cable field is the neatest machine in the lounge. This brings Apple TV+ to many individuals who would not even take into account a service if it required a brand new TV or any machine past those included with their cable subscriptions.