This Is What a Comcast-Walmart TV Partnership Would Really Be About

Cable giant Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and retailer Walmart (NYSE: WMT) may be teaming up to make television sets, according to recent reports from The Wall Street Journal.

Neither company has confirmed the plan, nor acknowledged such talks have happened. It's not unlikely though, given Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' rhetorical question at a recent investor conference. He asked, "We're looking at smart TVs on a global basis, and we're wondering -- can we bring our same tech stack for certain capabilities in aggregation to consumers who are relying more and more on smart TVs?"

That "tech stack" is Comcast's X1 operating system for digital televisions and the subsequent Flex device the software currently operates. Flex is a set-top receiver provided to Comcast's broadband customers who don't want traditional cable service but do want to watch streaming video.

Source Fool.com