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It doesn't represent FiOS "blazing fast speeds" very well.]]>Sep 19th 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
I think VZ was going to use a Microsoft guide for their service, but ended up creating their own because Microsoft was too expensive. I know U-Verse users have a Microsoft IPG, do they have such laggy menus as well?]]>Sep 19th 2008 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
I only left Comcast because they were throttling my connection.]]>Sep 19th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
I have U-Verse and while it had issues with slow menus at first, it's gotten to the point where it is really fast, at least for VOD and using the program guide. Applications (Flickr, Weather) are still a bit slow.

I'm betting that FiOS will be the shit once it switches over completely to IPTV and not RF overlay or whatever it's called that they're using now. Hang in there, you've got FTTP now, it'll only be a matter of time before my head implodes from jealousy.]]>Sep 20th 2008 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
The issue is that Verizon keeps running into problems with the rollout of the software. Several major markets that were supposed to receive the software already have been delayed indefinitely. There are now rumors that the software is being modified to version 1.61 before a continued rollout. Hopefully Verizon can get the bugs squashed soon and the updates installed by early October.]]>Sep 20th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 22nd 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
That'd be cool. But it doesn't happen.]]>Sep 19th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
How about a programming guide that actually reflects what's on the air?

How about no green bar on the right side of my screen, half inch of blur on the left side of my screen, and no intermittent snow at the top of my screen?

Screw the interactive TV, I'd be happy if FiOS did the basic TV service the way it's supposed to.]]>Sep 19th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
I refuse to spend more than $100 on all three so I'll just keep harrassing the Verizon cold callers who call me asking me to upgrade to TV.

My downloads and uploading is fantastic. 15,000kbps down on average and 5000 up on average.]]>Sep 19th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Vincent: I don't watch TV.
Jules: Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right? ]]>Sep 19th 2008 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
You do realize that VZ has already spent $23 Billion on FiOS and they still haven't made a profit from it, if I remember correctly.

VZ's only money maker is VZW.]]>Sep 19th 2008 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
Honestly, there's a common thread here:

Verizon loves to cripple good hardware, literally, and with their god-awful interfaces.

Has anyone else seen the specs for the HTC Touch Pro on Verizon vs. Sprint? Slower processor, less ram, no accelerometer! They took an incredible phone and watered it down to the point where I don't even want it. Sounds like they do the same thing with fiber-optics, technology capable of out-doing everything else on the market.

Ian should get better down/up speeds, and not get bogged down by a crap interface in the process. I should get better phones with no crippling - for a better monthly price.

Verizon, have you no shame?]]>Sep 20th 2008 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
That works better for me.]]>Sep 19th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
October ain't Spring.

]]>Sep 19th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 19th 2008 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
Mother of godt, the guide lists 900 channels and I don't subscribe to at least 100 of them...and 100 others are on Spanish...and 100 others are music only. Yeah, that makes browsing the guide a joy. For the love of christ, can you please just provide simple software settings to hide that crap instead of making me build a favorites list with several hundred entries.]]>Sep 20th 2008 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
here are some other request before Verizon adds any more functionality:
- Stop changing channel numbers (4 digit channel numbers now?!)
- Remove non-HD channels when HD is available. The only time this could come in handy is because the hard drive is too small for all the HD content
- Bigger HD or at least software that allows me to use the existing HD space
- Improve the interface response time. It takes WAY too long for certain features to activate after time of button press
- Shoot for making the DVR at least half as easy to use as a Tivo
- Why can't the DVR catch up to REAL TIME? I have two and I can NEVER get them synced up, EVER. You know how annoying that is when I have people over for the football game and the people upstairs cheer 5-7 seconds before the people downstairs see it happen on the big screen? !

Thank you for the vent. whew.
]]>Sep 20th 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 23rd 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/FIOS TV DVR & menus - 2 *
FIOS TV channel lineup - 8
FIOS customer service - 9
FIOS internet - 10

(*) ABSOLUTELY the worst menu system I have ever seen or used. My mother could design a menu system that works better than what they came up with. Huh, or maybe someone just gave them the interface cause they couldn't sell it because it was soooo bad... ya think? Love the picture... hate the PVR interface every time I use it.

How can a company division stay alive in today's world marketplace and still have absolute crap for software? It simply amazes me to no end. I guess it's the gorgeous picture quality that FIOS brings us... yep, that's it.]]>Sep 20th 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/Sep 20th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/
You do realize that VZ has already spent $23 Billion on FiOS and they still haven't made a profit from it, if I remember correctly.

VZ's only money maker is VZW.

Wrong. How can you expect a payback period of 5 years for a $23+ Billion CAPEX investment? If they were to generate a profit they'd need to charge users $766 / month. Verizon is doing what all telcos need to do, build out their access platforms and develop VAS revenues (network sharing, cellphone-PVR control, facebook widgets, etc).

]]>Sep 22nd 2008 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/19/verizon-promises-increased-interactivity-for-fios-tv-customers/(This was at 6:37 PM EST on monday the 22nd) Hopefully the new stuff is coming soon :] ]]>Sep 22nd 2008 6:40PM