Verizon preparing to enable internet scheduling for FiOS TV

by Darren Murph, posted May 30th 2008 at 12:13AM

Verizon's hoping to give prospective FiOS TV subscribers yet another reason to come on board with its new FiOS TV Central website. Currently, the newly launched portal "allows customers to use any desktop or laptop computer to review their local TV schedules and information about video-on-demand (VOD) and pay-per-view offerings." All that's well, fine and good, but the real meat is in the future. "Soon," customers will be able to program their DVR from the web, ensuring that you'll never miss a recording should you remember ahead of time and be anywhere near an internet connection. C'mon Verizon, stop teasing!

Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Set-top boxes, Fiber

Tags: dvr, fios, fios tv, FiOS TV Central, FiosTv, FiosTvCentral, remote access, remote program, RemoteAccess, RemoteProgram, tools, verizon

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Smoke_Dawg_187 @ May 30th 2008 12:52AM

It just keeps getting better and better with Verizon. I can't wait to get it myself.

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MI @ May 30th 2008 1:23AM

It'd be a little more helpful if you could actually leave your house for am moment and use the feature. But with the tiny drive they have in their DVR, you have to watch anything you record right away anyway. Let's stop adding 'gimmicks' till you give me a 500G drive in the thing OK? Is this just me or what?

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josh @ May 30th 2008 8:21AM

yeah you're right, damn those drives for only being able to record 1 show!

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Peter @ May 30th 2008 6:38PM

You can record up to 20 hours of HD content using the Motorola 160GB HD DVR.

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MadtownTim @ May 30th 2008 2:50AM

How about rolling FIOS out to enough folks to where this is applicable news?

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mountain_racer @ May 30th 2008 10:06AM

18 hours of HD programming or 80 hours std def? How many shows do you record that are 18hrs long? Stop saving entire seasons of shows on your DVR and you wont have a problem.

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Sean @ May 30th 2008 10:23AM

Hmm, I think I've been able to do this on U-Verse for like a year now.

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Dave @ May 30th 2008 12:20PM

Is that a Mot DVR? Egads... after the experience with this DVR with Comcast, I would walk....no RUN away from any MSO trying to foster that unbelievable piece of junk to any subscriber.

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Wayne @ May 30th 2008 12:45PM

The problem is Comcast, not Moto. My local cable service had the same boxes as Comcast and they worked perfectly. The Verizon boxes are QIP (QAM over IP) as opposed to the DCT boxes Comcast uses.

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Matt @ May 30th 2008 2:46PM

Wayne is right that these boxes may resemble each other, but have a few key differences -- hence the model numbers. The QIP models not only sport Qam over IP unlike the DCT models, but all seem to have HDMI instead of DVI and often have larger hard drives. However, the biggest difference is the operating system. The original QIP boxes had some horrible OS that made the Comcast OS seem refined.

However, Verizon has finally rolled out its updated MSTV-based IPG to all customers earlier this year. The new OS is certainly more modern than the Comcast one, but it has a serious flaw with its DVR scheduler. After the update, which happened during the writers strike, old series recording information appeared in the scheduler, but was ignored by the box. Consequently, users missed shows. Verizon didn't inform its customers that they needed to reprogram their DVRs. It was rather nettlesome. Even now, my boxes sometimes lose schedule info, but so far we haven't missed anything as it has restored the info just before air time.

Hopefully the inclusion of online scheduling means they have a bug-fix for the scheduler.

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chix @ May 30th 2008 4:53PM

This is great!! It also reminds me of a feature Panasonic used to have in some of their VCR's. It was called telephone programming. You called into your home and hit a series of codes to record your shows from anywhere in the world.

Ahhhh yes, that was before the internet world developed!!!!!

Check out the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjbKXpmtJXo

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Geraldo @ Jun 3rd 2008 11:24AM

Oh, look... it's that crappy Motorola set top HD PVR that I just ditched for a TiVo HD. I hated that damned thing... slow, crappy search, incredibly _lousy_ remote (had to be pointed just right and then still didn't work half the time). Sad when the cable guy who is setting up your CableCard for your TiVo agrees as well.

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