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!

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

said by GernBlanston :

Why on earth wouldn't you be able to daisy chain the TiVO right in line, with no loss in functionality?

said by NOCMan :

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.

said by Zodiacal :

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.

said by Woof Woof :

The installers here in Keller are using 3 different Motorola boxes. A basic box, a standard def DVR and a hidef DVR. He apparently didn't have one on the truck, or know the model numbers off the top of his head.

I can't remember how he described the HD one, something like "Then there is the kick ass one that will do everything including scratch your ass."

said by HaloBox :

»www.microsoft.com/tv/content/Sol···iew.mspx should give you an idea what's coming. See the datasheet link at the bottom for some screenshots. I don't know how much Verizon is customizing things, but if thats the platform they are rolling out, it should be pretty similar.

said by notonespecial:

I just got FIOS and they offered me the TV service too for $45. I'm in great neck.

I refused ... for now.:D

said by SuperG03 :

If I remember correctly, at least here in TX, VZ offers DSL & satelite TV in a deal, so maybe he got something similar to that. I highly doubt it was FIOS TV though. If that person could call back up and get some more detail, that would be great.

SuperG03