Groundbreaking!
Hey, John, I like FiOS. Nuts to your crazy, East Asian “technology,” OK? Now, thanks to Zatz, I can look (no touching!) at FiOS TV 2.0, what the kids will call IMG. The jazzed up interface++, which now includes super helpful widgets and a free hard drive space indicator(!), is currently available in select FiOS neighborhoods. Verizon is expected to announce IMG’s wider, nationwide rollout soon, complete with the soul-crushing news that it still has no intention of making my neighborhood FiOS-compatible.
Hands On With Verizon FiOS TV 2.0 [Zatz Not Funny!]
Nicholas,
The news is out. While you may find it “soul crushing,” to the 3.1 million FiOS-TV ready homes, people are pumped. The IMG for FiOS TV is going nationwide. See PolicyBlog post for announcement details:
http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/CZBlogger1/329/Powerful-New-Access-To-Your-FiOS-powered-Media.aspx
Take heart, we expect the number of households to be FiOS-video ready to be 15 million by 2010. CZ
I’m not paying for TV.
1. DVR recorded episodes of the same program is now limited to a maximum of five. Verizon deleted four of our prerecorded and unseen programs overnight when they implemented their IMG upgrade.
2. DVR recording program information is now truncated.
3. DVR recorded and View Schedule programs no longer include the episode titles.
4. DVR recorded and Series Manager programs are no longer listed alphabetically.
5. DVR recording capacity is now reduced down to 47 hours; previously it was 80 hours. Interesting, the Verizon website says the capacity is 120 hours.
6. It takes five button pushes to learn if a program is new or a rerun; previously it was display along with the basic information about the programs on the TV listing and DVR screens.
7. When watching a recorded program and it ends, pushing the Stop button now display all of the recorded programs; previously, we were given the immediate option to delete the previously watched program. Now we must search through the entire recorded program in order to find the program that we just watched so that we can select it and delete it.
8. I found the Marketplace listing something that I’m not interested in. In fact, it cheapens our whole FiOS service.
9. No longer can we search for a program by date and time, as that option is gone.
10. Programs in the DVR View Schedule now only show seven days in advance while the TV Listing shows 14 days.
11. The Reminder feature on the STB for controlling a VCR no longer works.
12. The remote control on the Help video shows a totally different control than the one that we received with our DVR and STB boxes. We have four Scientific Atlanta AT8550 controls. We are missing the DVR, OK, On Demand, Options, Skip Forward, and STB buttons. Verizon is charging us $5 apiece to replace the remotes.
13. The channels previously removed from the TV Listing are now all back and the option to remove these unwanted channels is no longer available