FiOS TV Widens Media-Sharing, Remote DVR Features
Verizon Makes PC-To-TV and Mobile-Phone Management Features To DVR Users
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 8/11/2009 4:40:21 PM
Verizon is making PC-to-TV features and the ability to manage digital video recordings from any Internet-enabled mobile phone -- two features previously available only to subscribers who took the multiroom DVR package -- available to all DVR customers.
Verizon's Home Media DVR service, $19.99 per month, provides multiroom capabilities; the standard HD DVR is $15.99 per month. Earlier this year, the telco opened up Web-based DVR scheduling to all customers, which had previously been available only to Home Media DVR customers.
Currently, no major U.S. cable operators offer similar PC-to-TV features or remote DVR programming capabilities, while competitors including TiVo, AT&T U-verse TV and DirecTV tout Web-based DVR access. Meanwhile Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks plan to introduce multiroom DVR later this year.
"Once again, Verizon FiOS is delivering what cable can only dream of," Verizon Telecom vice president of marketing Shawn Strickland said in announcing the wider availability of the features.
With the FiOS Media Manager software, customers can wirelessly stream personal photos, music and videos from their computer to their TV screens. In addition, the feature includes access to online videos from Blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh.
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To the commenters talking about U-VERSE - ummm, hello!! AT&T doesn't compete with Verizon!!
Skippster - 8/12/2009 9:20:47 AM EDT -
U-Verse as a g-damn app for iPhone -- How is this special?
Oh wait, I'm sure VZ is playing on words since technically U-verse isn't "cable". Lame.
bemis - 8/12/2009 9:11:45 AM EDT -
AT&T U-Verse has had this for a while... Did Verizon subsidize the article or is it just a lack of documentation?
DJC - 8/12/2009 8:26:14 AM EDT -
Props for vzw for gettin' it dun on the remote dvr...and even more props for them gettin in ther ahead of my ulteeemate nemesis brighthouse who seems to have a monopoly on cable and craaapy service here in sunny tampa.
Evvvan98 - 8/12/2009 1:27:27 AM EDT
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