This has been an odd week for
Verizon FiOS TV news, with 69,000 subs finding out
they will be Frontier customers within the next year (for what it's worth, the promise is there will be no changes, at least for a year.) Still, there's at least one bit of expansion to balance things out, with six new HD channels including Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, ES.TV, MyDestination.TV, Cars.TV and Pets.TV. The future is also bright, with word that streaming internet video is coming to FiOS TV boxes with Dailymotion, Veoh Networks and Blip.TV signed on for the service launching sometime in the second quarter. It will require a PC running Media Manager software
PlayOn-style to transcode the clips, but FiOS viewers can browse with their standard remotes, plus
Twitter and Facebook access is still on the way.
Read - Verizon FiOS TV Customers Get Six New HD Channels From Entertainment Studios
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Read - Next On FiOS: Web Videos On Your Flat-Panel TV
posted May 16th 2009 at 3:42AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ti89 @ May 16th 2009 1:01PM
When is Comedy Central coming in HD? C'mon FIOS, Cablevision got it a few months ago.
lucyfan62 @ May 16th 2009 1:19PM
So has DirecTV. South Park in HD is awesome!
lucyfan62 @ May 24th 2009 1:11PM
Haven't seen a new expansion report yet (it's May 24th), but I am thrilled to report FiOS is finally moving into my neighborhood in Dundalk, MD (Baltimore County). Verizon has begun installation of the large box and cables and they say it should be about three weeks. Now all they have to do for me to switch from DTV is upgrade their DVR with a larger hard drive capacity or add an eSATA expansion port.