Comments on: Web Video Coming to FiOS TV

By: Surge

Surge — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:50:42 +0000

Haha, July 24th 2008, look at the date on this article.
One year later, this feature is no where to be found.
Great job, Verizon. Way to go!

By: Surge

Surge — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:36:24 +0000

Wow…been a long time since I’ve investigated this.
David, by Remote DVR I meant the ability to set your dvr from the web \ your cell phone.

I was mad because verizon advertised this, but when we finally got FIOS, the tech said it wasn’t available in our *market* yet. DirecTV had it along time ago…but regardless, they just gave it to us about a week ago here in buffalo, ny.

What’s going on with the video streaming in media manager though? Seriously, it’s been over 1 year since the beta. IT looks like this feature is never going to be available.

Does anyone know anything concrete about video streaming with media manager?

By: kirk

kirk — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:19:10 +0000

Just talked to Verizon Fios Tech support for the second time to find out WHEN WILL MEDIA MANGAER SUPPORT VIDEO streaming from the pc? For a second time their tech support was completely in the dark! Ie., took them 15min to tell me “they don’t have a clue”.
Unfortunetly I think I’m going to invest in a 3′rd party media center router that does all this (VERY ANGRY) as it’s a huge investment of time and money vs they could simply come out w/ this software for customers.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:19:38 +0000

Surge, how is the DirecTV DVR better? The things you seem to want in the FiOS TV DVR service are not offered at all by DirecTV.

What do you mean remote DVR? If you’ve got two boxes in your home and are on the top tier package, you can stream recorded shows from the DVR to another DVR or converter box.

Have you given support a call?

By: Surge

Surge — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:12:10 +0000

I have all new boxes, QIP 7216 with 1.6 IMG, and the latest version of media manager. I did some digging, and I found out that the video streaming feature is still not public. Aparently there has been a beta test version of this for almost 1 year now, but all the trial slots are closed, and everyone who participated had to sign an NDA. Sucks! I wonder what is taking them so long? Also another thing, my box doesn’t support remote DVR yet either, even though I have the latest firmware…I am really regretting switching from directv. Fios for internet is great, but for tv, they are just too feature lacking compared to directv.

By: Surge

Surge — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:45:40 +0000

I just got fiostv today with a dvr, and I downloaded the media manager…it doesn’t seem to support sharing video files at all..all it scans for is audio and pictures.
What am I doing wrong?

By: sweetlouis

sweetlouis — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:38:31 +0000

I see they added CNBC/USA HD today and the positioning of the channels.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:45:01 +0000

No more snarky comments - Part 1 is now posted.