Verizon preparing to enable internet scheduling for FiOS TV

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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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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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