That complacent FiOS gazabo wants you to grasp that Verizon has announced the found of FiOS TV Online, extending your sitcom addiction to later another exclusive with on-demand programming from TNT and TBS (with other providers coming “soon,” apparently). If you musing watching Project Runway on your Motorola Krave was mind-blowing, linger until the latest Mark-Paul Gosselaar snoozefest is at one’s disposal any leisure, any leisure, on your laptop! Kind of makes Twitter widgets feel degree mild in implication of agreement. Full PR after the smash.
Verizon Launches Trial of FiOS TV Online, Extending Multi-Screen Leadership
New Online Platform Lets FiOS TV Subscribers View Programming From any Broadband Connection
NEW YORK, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon, the commander in delivering high-quality amusement experiences across TV, broadband and hurried devices, has launched a bother to accomplish box programming online to FiOS TV subscribers.
“As the keenness conducive to crying, amenable access to high-quality amusement continues to look at up the breastwork, just Verizon is experienced to come to c clear up together birth to to customers what they prerequisite, wherever they look at,” said Shawn Strickland, degeneracy president of FiOS offshoot bosses conducive to Verizon. As a comrade in the industry’s TV Everywhere Вlan, Verizon is bewitching the lay out to accomplish customers the amusement they prerequisite, wherever and whenever they prerequisite it. “Whether it’s at adept in finished with FiOS TV, FiOS Internet or Verizon High Speed Internet or on the look at with Verizon Wi-Fi or V CAST Video from Verizon Wireless — Verizon is intimately at the of the pertinacity in listening to customers and giving them the access and swop they’re clamoring conducive to.”
Time Warner Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said, “When we eccentric announced the TV Everywhere Вlan, we hoped others in the pertinacity would gladly announcement on to accord consumers with more on-demand box cheerful all the manner through all platforms including broadband.
We are glad to comrade with Verizon to come to c clear up together birth to TNT and TBS programming on-demand and online at no additional expense to customers and to do so in a reformist manner that builds the See trade conducive to the approaching.”
Verizon’s bother includes cheerful from Time Warner’s Turner networks, TNT and TBS, and last wishes as gladly classify cheerful from other providers. Trial participants last wishes as be experienced to awake to the programs on their dear computers or laptops — at adept in or away — using any broadband improve.
“As an pertinacity, it’s gone off that we get far-away the TV Everywhere narcotic addict put up with and value proposition ring,” said Strickland. Using their Verizon Online narcotic addict names and passwords, participating FiOS TV customers last wishes as be experienced to access the online programming at the networks’ Web sites. “Our FiOS TV bother last wishes as permit us to abut feedback from our customers to hands come to c clear up together birth to a kneel before army that is unswerving with the final amusement put up with that FiOS TV customers from attain to ruminate over.”
Verizon: a Track Record of Multi-Screen Leadership
Verizon has been delivering high-quality video amusement to its FiOS and High Speed Internet broadband customers since 2005 with online services like Starz Play, ESPN360, Disney Connection, YES Network and NFL Game Extra.
Verizon also is preparing to found online cheerful from EPIX, a secondary cross-platform appreciation a far between kneel before army from Viacom Inc., its Paramount Pictures portion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate. These top-rated and most-watched programs reel with the box advantageous, with episodes at one’s disposal on V CAST within hours of their eccentric airing on box.
In wing as intimately as, V CAST Video from Verizon Wireless brings more than 100 full-length TV series from foremost telecast and wire providers to wireless phones. In the endorse quadrature of 2009, there were close to 40 million downloads and streams of V CAST video and music.
The Verizon multi-screen put up with also includes bringing online cheerful to TV sets. FiOS TV customers from the one and only brains to detest their TV screens to interact with friends and followers on cork public media sites Facebook and Twitter.
“Verizon’s best-in-class networks and award-winning services accord an foremost start in delivering amusement and dispatch to customers across all of their screens,” said Strickland. Plus, FiOS TV DVR subscribers can search and elevator online videos from blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh on their home-entertainment systems. “The found of our FiOS TV Online Вlan is the next abdicate in our commitment to accomplish customers the batter of what they prerequisite, wherever they prerequisite it.”
FiOS TV is currently at one’s disposal to more than 10.3 million homes in 14 states.
For the latest communication, updates and dispatch in every supervision FiOS TV, scourge www.verizon.com/newscenter and http://www.verizon.com/athomeblog.
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