It is easy to set up, has a great voice search, and lets you monitor your smart home devices and home security system.
However, Amazon's Fire devices let you view feeds from a much wider range of home security cameras and video doorbells. It's an attractive extra feature for those who have or want a home security system.
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Through the Flex interface, you can access some of these features, and if you have an Xfinity home security system, you can receive alerts through your TV and view feeds from Xfinity security cameras. These features let you monitor and control who's on your network and helps protect against Internet threats. Xfinity's xFi app has some pretty good controls for those who use its cable modems. The Flex supports 4K, as well as HDR 10 from all streaming services and Dolby Vision when streaming from Netflix. I wish that the guide (and the Flex) could incorporate local over-the-air channels as well, similar to what you can do with the Amazon Fire TV and the Amazon Fire TV Recast. The grid shows the channels whether you subscribe to them or not. Press the Guide button on the remote, and you're treated to a traditional channel grid, which shows premium cable services (HBO, Showtime, Epix, Cinemax, Starz) as well as a few other channels, such as ESPN3, Cheddar, and the Home Shopping Network. Xfinity's Flex hasn't totally shed its cable roots. While the Flex is a new device, the lack of some of the largest streaming services puts it at a definite disadvantage compared to Roku's and Amazon's streaming boxes. Hulu also took a little extra time to get to the Flex, but it's there now.įlex also has both of the new streaming services on the block: HBO Max (which Roku and Fire TV still don't have) and Peacock, which it got months before everyone else. CBS All Access won't be available until later in 2020.
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For example, there's no Disney Plus and no AT&T TV Now, but the service added Sling TV and Spotify in the months that followed its release.
While it has Netflix, Amazon Prime and the premium cable channels (HBO, Showtime, Epix), the biggest failing of the Flex is its extremely limited number of apps and content partners. For instance, "Westerns" is not listed as a genre, and for some reason, Fifty Shades of Grey is listed as a romantic comedy. Voice search worked well but the results were not without their quirks. Within the results screen, you can also filter results by video quality (SD or HD), whether or not it's free, and if there's a video description or SAP. Press and hold the mic button on the remote, and you can search by title, actor, genre and more, and the Flex will search across all of your installed apps. Xfinity Flex review: Searchįor those who don't want to scroll through lists of shows, Xfinity's voice search will prove very handy. I feel that, of these options, Search and Help should be at the very top of the page. At the very bottom are icons for Search, Account, Settings and Help. Select it, and you're presented with a number of short video clips of the day's events, divided by category: News, Sports, Entertainment, Late Night Highlights, and New & Trending on YouTube.įarther down the homepage, you'll find content sorted by additional categories (Genres, Popular Apps and more). Most of these are pretty self-explanatory, but Today is a unique addition to a streaming box.
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For example, one day, when I turned on the box, MovieMax HD was playing Quantum of Solace, HBO HD was showing Les Misérables and Epix 2 HD had No Strings Attached (hard pass on all three).īelow these rows, there's a row of icons: Free to Me, Live TV, New, Music and Today. The top two-thirds have thumbnail images of shows or movies that are currently playing, and on which channels. Pressing the Xfinity button on the remote brings up the Flex's main home page. After that, it was just a matter of logging in to my respective streaming apps. I was expecting to at least have to type in my password. After I plugged it in, the Flex automatically found and connected to my home Wi-Fi network, with no input required from me. Getting the Flex up and running was easier than starting up other streaming devices I've used. It took a lot more effort to press the membrane buttons on the X1 remote than on any other remote I've used. I don't mind the extra buttons what I do mind is how stiff they are. There's even a Record button, but it doesn't do anything. There are volume and channel rockers up top, media playback buttons below them, a D-pad in the middle and a number pad at the bottom.
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