What Is Xfinity Smart Resume?
If you own Comcast’s Xfinity X1 cable box then Smart Resume is an awesome feature in which you can continue watching recorded or on-demand TV shows or movies right from the spot it was paused. It functions through an algorithm that intelligently detects the last seen part of the video being watched on all the devices that the user uses and therefore the user does not have to remember the exact time code to pick from.
What is Xfinity Smart Resume?
When the user stops, rewinds, or fast-forwards, Smart Resume lets the X1 cable box track the progress of a recorded or an on-demand show. It accomplishes this using Comcast's server's viewing history linked to the Xfinity account.
Smart Resume would detect, for example, if you stopped a movie you were seeing on your living room TV after twenty minutes to fetch some snacks. LATER, IF YOU MOVE TO ANOTHER ROOM AND ENDWATCH THE MOVIE FROM YOUR X1 BOX, THEN, it WILL NOT RESTART AT 20 MINUTES AGAIN BUT END FROM THAT POSITION.
This covers any X1 TV box in your house as well as any other streaming device with Xfinity Stream accessible, including Roku, cellphones, etc. Smart Resume will so pick up exactly where you left off if you start viewing in one area and stop and go on in another.
Resume Points Sync Across Devices
Xfinity Smart Resume is quite helpful, as it not only monitors the viewing history of the set-top cable boxes but also connects it with the Xfinity Stream app.
Well, for example, imagine you were watching an episode of a TV show from the living room on the X1 box and then stopped halfway then continued watching on your tablet through the Stream app upstairs. Smart Resume identifies when you stopped the program downstairs and starts it right from that point on your tablet without replaying the whole episode.
This syncing makes it easy to continue from where one left off in case of switching between rooms or using different devices. No matter if you are switching from your main TV to a mobile device or the other way around, Smart Resume is there to help.
Customize Smart Resume Settings
In your Xfinity account settings, you can configure Smart Resume to better suit your preferences: In your Xfinity account settings, you can configure Smart Resume to better suit your preferences:
- If needed, the user can enable or disable Smart Resume for specific devices.
- Choose if kid profiles incorporate Smart Resume
- Select whether you want to use Smart Resume for recordings only, On Demand only, or both.
- Check the box if you want the 5-second ‘catch up’ feature enabled in case of resuming shows.
Therefore if Smart Resume has become irritating to you in specific scenarios, then you can easily switch it off for that device or profile. For instance, if you are okay with a summary of the show being played each time you return to it after some time, then you can set it as the default. This flexibility is helpful to adjust Smart Resume to better fit your watching patterns.
Use of Smart Resume for Recordings
Besides On Demand programs, Smart Resume is perfect for remembering your place in recorded live TV programs. For instance, if you use DVR to record an entire football match, you may not be able to view it until the next day; Smart Resume keeps track of this always.
If the show was recorded, then you could begin watching it over a plate of cereal and switch off the television set when it is time to go to work in the morning, then resume watching the show from where you left off when you are back from work in the evening. It has the advantage of making it easy to navigate through the recordings since one can use it as a ‘mark of place’ to make it easier to listen to the recordings in incremental portions.
If another member in your household watches part of the same recording on another TV, the Smart Resume tracker helps sort things out for each profile. That way, your stopping point will remain intact when your kids or partner has started watching that recorded show too on his/her profile. The watch history is also personalized and each subscriber of X1/Stream has a history of watched programs.
Enjoy Seamless Playback
The overall idea of the Xfinity Smart Resume is to provide viewers with a more seamless and less irritating experience of watching different programs. This means no more endless recaps when one has to return to a half-watched movie, or endless scrolling through a recording to find the exact point at which one paused. Smart Resume on the other hand resumes playback from where it left off each time without fail.
For those all-night TV show marathons, Smart Resume is here to help you cruise through full seasons non-stop. And when watching recordings of lengthy sports matches or programs like the Oscars, you can watch them spread out over days while not missing anything important.
In conclusion, if you frequently stop watching shows halfway through an episode or even in the middle of the series, then Smart Resume helps a lot in saving your time. It makes consumption of cable programs as easy as streaming across all the gadgets in your household. With the help of Xfinity Smart Resume enabled it is as easy as pausing, switching devices, and resuming.
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