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Giz Explains: IPTV, or Cable From the Phone Company

If you still rock the bunny ears we salute you. But odds are, you probably get TV one of two ways: Cable or satellite. There's a newer way: IP, that is Internet Protocol, TV—in this case, the TV delivered over the internet by your phone company. Verizon and AT&T push FiOS TV and U-Verse, respectively, in select regions of the country where their fiber networks have been built out. (Update: As has been pointed out, FiOS TV isn't actually IPTV, my bad.) In a lot of ways, it's the TV of the future—in part because most of you can't get it yet. Beyond that, the technology that delivers it to your home, as well as who is doing the delivering, opens up some pretty sweet new interactive possibilities. And even for regular old boob tubing, the way it's architected means its good for HD buffs. More »

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2:30 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By matt buchanan
6,570 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: yes. Because the world needs more ways to watch American Idol to satisfy its median IQ of 75. I can envision NO better use for that bandwidth. The internet was starting to bore me, anyway. ... F'n retards. more »

verizon fios

Verizon Plans to Expand FiOS to the Boonies By Using Less Fiber (¡Que!)

PC Mag is reporting that Verizon is looking at a couple different ways to spread the good word of FiOS beyond the projected 18 million homes it'll reach in 2010, maybe by using less, um, fiber after that, according to tech chief Mark Wegleitner. Update: Verizon's Policy blog has a post that makes it clear they're still all about fiber after 2010, though they'll be using a combo of ways to bring broadband to less dense areas, maybe even 4G LTE stuff. More »

11:20 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By matt buchanan
6,890 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: Look , for the ones that are still on dial up you can get the sat internet and it works real well now. A little over 2 meg down and about 1 up! I have it on a more »

verizon fios

Verizon Pumping FiOS Bandwidth to 50Mbps Down, 20Mbps Up Across Whole Footprint

Verizon FiOS's blazingest 50Mbps downstream/20Mbps upstream package is no longer confined to the pit of the tri-state NY/NJ/CT area and select other locales. Starting next week, it'll be available across Verizon's entire, growing FiOS footprint in 16 states. (Though it'll run $139.95 a month to NY and VA's bargain $89.95/month.) Also, everyone who got 15/15 Mbps now has the option for 20/20 symmetrical ($64.95 a month), and its lower end packages are getting juiced from 15/2 Mbps to 20/5 Mbps, and from 5/2 Mbps to 10/2 Mbps (uh, why do you people have FiOS?). Overall, a nice day to be a FiOS customer, even more so than before. *Kicks stupid cable modem* [Verizon]

9:33 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By matt buchanan
4,784 views, 51 comments

Latest by dweinric: Oddly enough I've had pretty damn good customer support here. I've never had a bandwidth problem or outage either, just a bum dvr or two. Quick, everyone who wants FiOS move to Temecula, CA (I need house prices to go more »

wireless

Verizon Offers Discount Bundle to Those Who Don't Want a Landline

There are few reasons to maintain a landline phone these days, which is why Verizon will offer an $8 to $12 discount per month to landline-free wireless customers who sign on for internet or TV service with their new Flex Double Play bundle. Wireless customers that tack on DSL service with downloads at 3 Mbps and FiOS at up to 20 Mbps are eligible for the discount. Futhermore, adding FiOS TV to the package increases the savings by another $8 per month. The plan is set to roll out next week. [Eagle Herald]

4:20 PM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,048 views, 9 comments

Latest by berribrand: @Mmsupermario: I have Verizon DSL and no problems here. Setup was a breeze and my service was up and running on the day they told me it would be ready. I would totally jump on FiOS if it more »

home entertainment

Comcast Compressing HDTV Signals to Fit Three Shows into Two Shows' Bandwidth

Comcast has begun compressing HDTV shows in order to deliver more HD channels to you while using the same amount of bandwidth. They didn't use to do this before, but now, when compared to Verizon FiOS, the channels are grainy and blocky and full of artifacts—a result of shoving three channels into a space where only two previously occupied. A guy at AVSForum measured how the new bitrate stacks up against Verizon. More »

2:45 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Jason Chen
21,555 views, 82 comments

Latest by Mrbungleface: @tekmiester: on top of the ten others i can think off hand why does comcast have to suck so much for real... i hate those guys... yet... im still paying them money!!! WHY GOD WHY!!!!!!!! more »

adwatch

Michael Bay, Transformers and Giant Explosions Shill for Verizon FiOS

Verizon's new FiOS ad is a splashy, big-budget popcorn flick compared to Time Warner's cheaper, low-fi satire spot. It even stars the king of big boom summer movies, Michael Bay, blowing a bunch of shit up and hanging out with Transformers, saying the word "awesome" a whole lot. Come to think of it, it's pretty much exactly like his movies, which you can pirate even faster with FiOS. Awesome! [Verizon]

8:00 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By matt buchanan
20,774 views, 35 comments

ads

Time Warner Says Verizon Is a Constipated Gay Man with Magic Fingers


This Time Warner ad taking on Verizon FiOS is so ludicrously hilarious it almost does make want to sign up with Time Warner. In the spot, Verizon is a constipated (wait for it), overly enthusiastic gay-coded dude with magic fingers shooting red lightning and flying Vs (for Verizon!), touting "THE FIBER." It's so ridiculous it almost seems fake. More »

12:40 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By matt buchanan
9,236 views, 63 comments

verizon report card

Verizon Year-End Report Card: B-

Verizon has to be the most bipolar telecom in the US. It's got a great network but won't let anything on it. Its got decent phones, but a lot of 'em are disfigured with that red-stained standardized interface. It was against open networks but now it is all about them. Grading Verizon for the year is hard, like a student who slacks all year then aces the finals on the last day of class. More »

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4:20 PM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By matt buchanan
5,441 views, 24 comments

Hey Beaver Staters (haha, beaver) Verizon's launched FiOS TV in your state. Well, if you live around Portland. Check the release to see if you're eligible for bundlage. [Verizon]

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veeohdee

Verizon FiOS TV's High-Def VOD Goes Live: Is It in Your Neighborhood Yet?

Are you on the list? Probably not! But lucky souls in Richmond, Virginia Beach, Tampa, Fort Wayne (IN) and Pittsburgh are—HD VOD is live for Verizon FiOS TV subscribers in those locales. The rest of you, fear not the rollout mystery, here's how it's going down: Washington DC, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will slip into HD VOD goodness before the ball drops in Times Square, while everyone else gets it next year. Right now they've got 75 flicks up—ballooning to 1,000 next year—including blockbuster king Michael Bay's Transformers. [Verizon]

4:35 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,972 views, 13 comments

Latest by wylacot: Too bad AT&T's copper-based architecture is different from Verizon's fiber. California...stuck in the technological Dark Ages. So San Francisco has municipal WiFi - big freakin' deal. Pasadena has dozens of Metricom Ricochet antenna/tranceivers (dark, naturally) all over more »

godzilla bandwidth

Comcast Getting 100Mbps Cable Modems Next Year, Fiber Scared?

Comcast confirms we'll see the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0—the next-gen data over cable standard allowing bandwidth of 160Mbps down and 120Mbps up—starting next year, with 20 percent of its footprint expected to be blanketed in bandwidth goodness by the end of 2008. Even though Comcast isn't saying where it'll fall, markets where there's FiOS are probably going to continue having all of the fat pipe fortune—competition is good for people in those areas, bad for the rest of us. Now for the real bad news: More »

6:00 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
13,700 views, 34 comments

Latest by Ellomdian: Sure thats great. Unless you don't have verizon in your area, so Comcast has no incentive to upgrade, and you're begging the ISP you work for to drop a Fiber or Gig-e line in the back of your house. more »

internets

Verizon's Symmetrical FiOS Expands to Entire Coverage Area

The imminent announcement about wider coverage of Verizon's symmetrical FiOS that was teased last week has arrived, and it's pretty nice: Everyone gets it. FL, MA, and RI get 20Mbps up and downstream like NY, NJ and CT, while the rest get 15Mbps both ways. They've also got an option for 30 down and 15 up, but the trailblazing tri-state area picks up a new 50 down/20 up package. No word on that 400Mbps Gozilla bandwidth, unfortunately. [Verizon]

6:45 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007
By Matt Buchanan
9,549 views, 28 comments

fat pipes

Next Up for Verizon FiOS: Invading Manhattan, Japan-Like Uber-Bandwidth

You might have heard about Verizon's new 20/20 symmetric FiOS—a sweet 20Mbps upstream and down. But 20 ain't 100, and we're damn jealous of the Japanese, so we got on the phone and asked the guys managing Verizon's tubes what's around the bend. The scoop for city dwellers is that we can expect "not too distant" announcements about FiOS availability in Manhattan thanks to ultra-bendable Corning fiber ideal for labyrinthine build-out in apartment high-rises. So, what's the holdup on the Japan- style 100Mbps fiber optic love? Doesn't Verizon have the pipes to supply it? Here are the answers to those questions, and the most important of them all: When is it coming to your house? More »

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12:30 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Matt Buchanan
23,310 views, 44 comments

Latest by brundlefly76: I had FIOs 20/5, now have FIOs 20/20. Due to latency, download speeds only saturate the pipe if you multistream (like when using a segmenting download file manager like IDM or Bittorrent). However, its more challenging to multistream uploads. It can be done, more »

patience

Verizon FiOS TV Subscribers Getting 150 HD Channels By End of 2008

Verizon's spreading the FiOS lovefest to the HDTV side things today, announcing plans to ballon their HD channels to over 150 by the end of 2008. The HD expansion's more of a rollout than an explosion, initially doubled to 60+ on a "market-by-market" basis, at least some of those being sports channels. On the HD VOD front, they're introing HD content this year, but pickings are going to slim until 2008, when it'll hit over 1000 titles. Finally, their DVR service is getting an upgrade that'll let you record HD shows and watch them in anywhere in the house with an HDTV and HD set-top box. All of this is good and gravy, but a year's kind of a long time to wait, no? [Verizon]

6:00 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Matt Buchanan
17,835 views, 22 comments

Latest by n/a: just got fios about two weeks ago and been waiting for about a year to dump and comcast and now i have. fios is so much better so many more channels on the tv clear picture hd with fios is more »

money, money

Verizon Earnings Report: iPhone Effect Seemingly Non-Existent

It looks like AT&T's impressive growth of 2 million additional wireless subscribers didn't take too much away from Verizon, who posted 1.8 million net additional subscribers for a total of 63.7 million, trailing AT&T's total by 2 million. Quarterly net income was down over half a billion, to $1.27 billion from $1.92 billion last year, though revenues of $23.77 billion beat Wall Street's bet of $23.6 billion. More »

5:20 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,988 views, 27 comments

intertubes

Verizon Launches 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service

Heeding to the usage patterns of BitTorrent users Flickr junkies everywhere, or at least in NY, NJ and Connecticut for the time being, Verizon's rolling out symmetrical FiOS service—20Mbps up and downstream. Available today in those locales and soon in the 13 other states where FiOS is available, the monthly fee will start at $65 a month. According to Verizon's numbers, you'll be able to upload a 3GB "family" video in 20 minutes with the new service. However one might use the newly fattened pipes, there's no question most of us upload more content than ever before, so it's about time services started to catch up with our habits (or other countries). [Verizon]

3:11 PM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,693 views, 27 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: Well i wont feel bad about having to wait for my up/dn rate to get to 1.7 now it'll get there long before i finish downloading w/e it is im downloading. more »

According to Broadbandreports.com, Verizon will be announcing "a groundbreaking new FiOS Internet service that will be uniquely available to consumers over the company's advanced all-fiber-optic network." Apparently, this announcement will come via webcast sometime tomorrow afternoon, so stay tuned to see if it is a load of crap. [Broadbandreports]

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home entertainment

FiOS TV Getting an Upgrade; Here's a Sneak Peek

Now we're really jealous of the lucky ones who already have FiOS TV, Verizon's fiber optic-network-based cable TV replacement gets you all the HD channels you can watch, premium content and a dual-tuner DVR. Hey, sounds a lot like cable TV, doesn't it? That DVR is getting a lot more sophisticated, and Zatz Not Funny's Dave Zatz got a close-up look at its upcoming features that are set to hit in Q1 or Q2 of next year. More »

11:45 AM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By Charlie White
10,291 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: just got fios triple package- phone,cable,computerbeats cablevision hands down- 20 speed vs 11, and the picture is so much clearer without the hd- the hd didn't get here yet because the dvrs are out of stockOne big drawback- I already more »

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