neutronic
join:2005-06-05
Port Washington, NY
| FiOS TV Features Update
I was lucky enought to participate in a Verizon FiOS TV marketing focus group earlier this week in Carle Place, Long Island. Here's what I found out:
1. Verizon will be launching FiOS TV to certain towns in Western Nassau including Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington and Roslyn (there may be others) on Sept. 1st.
2. The service will offer 300 channels with 18 sports channels, 3X the number of HD channels that Cablevision currently offers, 1,800 on-demand programs and all of the standard local channels (except stuff like News12 and NY1).
3. They will offer a DVR box that can record up to SIX programs simultaneously and stream video from one room to another if you have multiple DVR boxes.
4. Supposedly, it will be cheaper than cable, but there was NO other info about possible pricing.
That's what I know right now. Hope this helps! |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Optimum Online
| Awesome!
I'm switching all my services (Voice, Data, Video) to FIOS as soon as it becomes available.
Fios to me is the BEST deal on the block from what I am seeing. I really like how they are going to have 3X the HD Cablevision has! CV has 17 HD channels I believe so that would be 51 HD channels! WOW! Damn, I'd be happy if they even gave me 30 HD! And for less money per month, how can you go wrong?
-Tzale |
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UofMiamiGrad
Premium
join:2001-02-03
Great Neck, NY
| reply to neutronic
said by neutronic  :I was lucky enought to participate in a Verizon FiOS TV marketing focus group earlier this week in Carle Place, Long Island. Here's what I found out: 1. Verizon will be launching FiOS TV to certain towns in Western Nassau including Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington and Roslyn (there may be others) on Sept. 1st. 2. The service will offer 300 channels with 18 sports channels, 3X the number of HD channels that Cablevision currently offers, 1,800 on-demand programs and all of the standard local channels (except stuff like News12 and NY1). 3. They will offer a DVR box that can record up to SIX programs simultaneously and stream video from one room to another if you have multiple DVR boxes. 4. Supposedly, it will be cheaper than cable, but there was NO other info about possible pricing. That's what I know right now. Hope this helps! I assume it all depends on getting franchise agreements signed in time, otherwise the plans to launch Sept 1st around here will be delayed. Hope to hear some franchise agreements sometime in the next two months. Sounds promising though, thank you for the information!:D |
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LLivingLarge
Better Than You
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join:2003-12-03
Roslyn, NY | reply to neutronic
Jesus Christ... The Roslyn CO isn't even live yet and they are already promising FIOS TV to us?
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Jobronie
join:2004-07-23
Harrington Park, NJ
| reply to UofMiamiGrad
said by UofMiamiGrad :I assume it all depends on getting franchise agreements signed in time, otherwise the plans to launch Sept 1st around here will be delayed. Hope to hear some franchise agreements sometime in the next two months. Sounds promising though, thank you for the information!:D Are franchise agreements needed even for test markets? Maybe that's why they're test markets: to see how the video runs and to guage consumer/boro reaction.
Reason I ask is because about 10 days ago I ran into the north Jersey Fios Hummer guy at our library. Asked him about video: he asked if I lived in town, I told him yeah, he siad about two months. Two months??? He listed a number of towns for the Closter and Wykoff COs that are gonna be used as test markets. I asked about the franchise agreements and progress in Trenton; he said something like: I don't know where that is, all they keep telling me is test market video in two months.
OP: any idea how you got selected for the focus group? Was it thru Fios directly, or did a a research firm pick your name-out-of-a-hat....? |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
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join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs:
·Optimum Online
·Verizon FIOS
 ·Vonage
·magicjack.com
| reply to neutronic
May be I'm coming in late in the game here, but how will the set top boxes connect to my Fios hardware already installed in my garage? RG6? Cat5? I'm just wondering if I'll have to lay some more Cat5 cables or switches, or if we can use the existing cable that is hooked up to the TVs now. |
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JohnA
Premium
join:2003-09-16
Pittsburgh, PA | Look in the ONT just below the phone jacks, there's an F connector for RG6. |
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TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03
Wyckoff, NJ
| reply to neutronic
300 Channels? Gameshow Network BETTER be listed as one of them, and I'll switch ASAP 
I really hope it's at the $50 price tag or under. T hat's already 15$'s cheaper than cable. |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
Premium
join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs: | reply to JohnA
Ahh Ok, that makes some more sense.
Thanks. |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
| reply to neutronic
Now only if they would license Tivo to run on top of the MSDVR crap and I'd be happy. Though for the ability to record 6 channels at once I'd jump for it..
Hopefully the dvr has the ability to access NFS or a SAN so people can ramp up recording space beyond it's hard drive limits. Otherwise having the ability to record 6 channels at once for a large family will be moot. |
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ablack6596
join:2005-01-28
Scarsdale, NY
| reply to neutronic
I really want to be able to stream video from DVRs. DirecTV is so annoying, turning it off on their Tivos. I'll probably wait and make sure that the MS DVRs aren't crappy, but that looks pretty good. |
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GernBlanston
join:2005-01-08
51464 | reply to NOCMan
Why on earth wouldn't you be able to daisy chain the TiVO right in line, with no loss in functionality? |
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musicforme
join:2005-02-24
Grapevine, TX
| reply to neutronic
The quality and features of the DVR will make it or break it for me.
We're still on a Comcast analog plan that works great with our Tivo. The plan is around $50 a month with tax.
If Verizon's least expensive plan isn't close to that and doesn't include a DVR, we'll probably stick with Comcast. We'd probably re-evaluate that decision once we have a HDTV, but that won't be for another year or so. |
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aaron12345
join:2002-12-17
Falls Church, VA
| reply to neutronic
Both cox and dish (we had cox, then moved to dish) SD look like crap on Infocus DLP projector. The HD is bearable but should look alot better. I hope verizon doesn't compress the hell outta everything. They say they won't.... but that doesn't mean they really won't. |
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GeekNJ
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join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to GernBlanston
said by GernBlanston :Why on earth wouldn't you be able to daisy chain the TiVO right in line, with no loss in functionality? Are you talking about a standard stand alone Tivo? They don't work well with set top boxes as the set-top box only outputs 1 channel so how would you, for example, watch something and record something else?
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Hmm2
@rmhitv.com | reply to neutronic
Where are they getting that HD content from...VOOM? |
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neutronic
join:2005-06-05
Port Washington, NY | I think not... VOOM is (er was) a Cablevision company. NO WAY they would license content to Verizon when they're about to EAT THEIR LUNCH all over Long Island! Man, I can't wait! |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
| reply to neutronic
Yeah what is the storage on these things, and their abilities. Can they record 6 HD shows at once if you wanted to do that or can it record 5 SD and 1 HD. The ability to record 6 channels will probably have it's limit.
Really after the CES demo it seems were not getting what MicroSoft was bragging about.
Why the DVR, just have one master DVR where everyone can just dial up any program that has played when they want to see it. Network schedules are so 60's. |
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sdgthy
@optonline.net | The CES thing was a SBC demo. SBC is finding that MS IPTV currently doesn't scale very well, requiring 1 server per 10 customers. MS IPTV has a long ways to go yet before it's ready for prime time. |
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Zodiacal
join:2003-11-26
Monrovia, CA
| reply to neutronic
i tried adelphia's DVR for a few months. i liked the idea of being able to record two shows and watch another recorded one at the same time, BUT, the quality of the recordings was horable, it looked worse than regular digital cable on my stand alone Tivo. i guess they had to compress the hell out of it to get it to record two shows at once? i switched back to just a standard digital cable box and my tivo. plus the adelphia dvr woudn't let you permantly save shows. it was very anoying. it was a moxi operating system. i will think hard and long before i switch from my tivo, but yet i will have to some day because mine can't do HD. |
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