Looks like the full feature set it available in your home, with a more selective set of channels and DVR’d content outside. Hmmm… I wonder if VPN counts as “in your home”? With the rollout of FiOS TV IMG software 3.0, Verizon is bringing new capabilities to us television customers. However, to pull this off you’ll seemingly need both FiOS TV […]
Read moreRedbox and Verizon announced earlier this year that they would be teaming up on a Netflix-style streaming service dubbed Redbox Instant by Verizon. The horrendously named service went into alpha testing over the summer and is apparently still being tested internally by 500 Verzion employees. There are plans for a short public beta, but the emphasis will have to be […]
Read moreVerizon got in the holiday spirit last year by dropping a short video that gave a taste of the future for Verizon FIOS subscribers; a future in which Verizon would serve TV streams to every room in subscribers’ homes via a media server. There were even seemingly pie-in-the-sky scenarios as the media server was depicted streaming out to game consoles, […]
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TiVo has established a brand that is virtually synonymous with DVRs, but has always struggled to capitalize on that brand recognition with consumers. Fortunately, the company has not only built up brand cachet, but also a sizable patent portfolio, and that patent portfolio has been quite useful. In the last couple of years TiVo has forced some big companies to […]
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In early February, Redbox dropped a pair of bombshells. The first, the purchase of the Blockbuster Express kiosks, has come and gone and, frankly, no one really noticed, but the second bombshell, the announcement that Redbox would be teaming up with Verizon on a Netflix-like streaming service, promises to provide some lasting fodder. It took nearly five months, but the […]
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Today was an exciting day for Netflix. They launched their first original series, Lillyhammer, and got to watch Redbox unload on them with both barrels. Redbox has risen rapidly in the last few years to become Netflix’s biggest competitor in the DVD and Blu-ray rental market, and today Redbox made two major announcements that signal their intention to be even […]
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Verizon FiOS appears set to get out of the set top box business, and into the media server business. Verizon has released a video detailing how they plan on eliminating traditional set top boxes to improve energy efficiency and offer better service by moving to a whole-house DVR/media server conjoined to small extender devices or devices that the consumer already owns […]
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Verizon currently has more than a half-dozen apps in the Android Marketplace that allow Verizon FiOS subscribers to access the functionality of their service from a mobile device. While undoubtedly generous, it also sounds a bit unwieldy. The newly released My FiOS app brings the functionality that had been spread across several apps into one single app. A similarly integrated […]
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