Verizon FiOS TV → Just Lost Fios TV Plymouth Meeting, PA

It goes to show how massive VHO8 is and how much of a disruption is caused when an entire VHO loses service all at the same time and during a peak time of the day.

I noticed TV was out about 15 minutes into the 40 minute outage and checked here which confirmed that it wasn't something gone bad on my end.

Sure, how much credit do you think you deserve for 30 minutes of down time?
Let's see, on average 30 days of a month, perhaps you're on a high end plan for $100 for TV stand alone, so about $3.33 a day. 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour. So for a 30 minute outage, you lost about 6 cents worth of TV. I'm sure if you call billing and spend an hour on the phone, they'd be willing to give you a nickel if you want it.
My math probably isn't correct, but you get the point, I hope.