FOR THE RECORD

Verizon Takes Cinemax To Go

NEW YORK— Verizon Communications FiOS TV customers
who subscribe to Cinemax now have access to MaxGo.
com, the “TV Everywhere” portal for HBO’s sister channel
with more than 700 hours of programming per month;
but don’t worry, Mom and Dad — parental controls are
included to limit access to the adult-oriented “Max After
Dark” series.

This past February, Verizon was the first affiliate to
launch HBO Go, the TV Everywhere service for HBO’s
flagship service. FiOS TV is again first with Max Go, which
will support Verizon sub-accounts to enable access by
multiple users from the same household. Users are able
to customize their experience through multiple browsing
and viewing options, and can restrict content using
parental controls.

As with HBO Go, Max Go offers unlimited online access
to Cinemax programming anytime from anywhere
in the U.S. — over any provider’s broadband connection
— for no additional charge beyond the TV subscription.
FiOS TV subscribers can log in to watch Cinemax movies
and the Max After Dark soft-core adult programming at
www.verizon.com/fiostvonline and www.maxgo.com.

In addition to HBO content, Verizon’s TV Everywhere
service includes programming from Epix and Turner
Broadcasting System. Among other TV providers, Comcast
offers the Fancast Xfinity TV service to subscribers
but, unlike Verizon, Comcast provides access only
through its own Web properties instead of via programmers’
sites.

SCTE Sets Roundtable Lineups

NEW ORLEANS — The Society of Cable Telecommunications
Engineers announced speaker lineups for two
discussion panels that will kick off the Cable-Tec Expo
conference here on Oct. 20.

The Technology Leadership Roundtable will feature
four top industry executives: Steve Reynolds, Comcast
senior vice president of customer premises equipment
and home networking; Jay Rolls, Cox Communications
senior vice president of technology; Mike Hayashi, Time
Warner Cable’s executive vice president of architecture,
development and engineering; and John Chapman,
Cisco Fellow.

The panel — to be moderated by Multichannel News
technology columnist Leslie Ellis — will cover how cable
networks can keep pace with the needs of the “digital
consumer,” as well as how operators can migrate traditional
linear and on-demand video to IP.

That will follow an engineering session, covering ways
cable operators can deliver content to a wide range of
devices in the networked home, moderated by Larry Socher,
global lead in Accenture’s Network Practice, Communications
& High Tech Operating Group.

Speakers scheduled for the engineering panel are:
Jean-Christophe McKeown, managed digital home
lead for Accenture; Robert Howald, Motorola’s CTO
Office; Edmond Shapiro, NDS vice president of project
delivery for the Americas; and industry consultant Walt
Ciciora.

SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo is scheduled for Oct. 20-22 at
the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.