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Netflix is coming to comcast cable boxes later this year recode reports the two sides reached an agreement to incorporate Netflix with an app that will be present on Comcast x1 platform now netflix has deals with apple Roku google's chromecast and is embedded in Smart TVs but this would finally bring it directly onto your cable box now this is a huge deal between the two companies moving forward after having a contentious relationship in the past now in 2012 Netflix accused Comcast of violating net neutrality principles by favouring its own web video service over others like Netflix HBO and Hulu when it came to data usage they later struck a deal in 2014 to clear the bottleneck of slowing Netflix video streams for the cable companies broadband customers now netflix accounts for more than thirty seven percent of peak internet traffic in North America more than doubling YouTube and has now found the number one cable partner in the u.s. Comcast can finally tout being more open to competing services instead of keeping everyone closed off from its x1 platform something that should have happened four years ago I'm Brian tonga that your news bite