FiOS TV coming to Mac, iOS in 2011
FiOS TV is coming to a Mac/iOS device near you. Sometime. In the future. We're not sure when.From the More of the Same Department comes a tease from Verizon's director of consumer product development, Joe Ambeault. In a brief video (after the break; apologies for Flash), Joe notes that his company is working on a FiOS app for the iPad, iPhone and Mac with a probable release date in early 2011. It's believed that the iPad app, at least, will require a Verizon internet connection, and that Verizon is working on a video-on-demand service.
In August, we saw a brief teaser of an iPad interacting with FiOS, though not much more information has been released since then. There are currently two official FiOS apps on the App Store, including Verizon FiOS Mobile Remote for iPhone and iPod touch (free), which works as a remote for FiOS TV set-top boxes, and Verizon FiOS DVR Manager (free), which lets customers program FiOS DVRs remotely. Neither is universal, so expect pixel-doubling on the iPad.
In the meantime, hurry up and wait.
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Very good question about now-Frontier-FiOS. As a Washington state guy (with 35Mb/sec up and down) who uses FiOS, will I get to play with any of these new Verizon toys? Please tell me Frontier got rights to future tech when they bought all these states. BTW, had anyone ever heard of Frontier before they bought up all these states?
December 07 2010 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOr you connect a TiVo via cablecard to your FiOS, slap a SlingBox on it and you already have this functionality 2 years ago. (I'm not saying this is cheaper, but it's been around.)
December 07 2010 at 4:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCorrect me if I'm wrong, but that's not the same thing. With a Slingbox, you're essentially watching the feed being sent to (in this case) a TiVo. If someone in the house went to watch that TV and changed the channel, it would affect what you're seeing...correct?
I would assume that the setup FiOS users are getting gives them an independent connection, that isn't running off of your setup at home...you're just watching content over the web.
There's also a verizon football app that links to espn redzone when at home on wifi
December 07 2010 at 4:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhere is this Verizon Football app?
December 07 2010 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyA review of the app store shows it as iPad only
December 07 2010 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySince Centurylink's new Prism service is essentially the same thing, I hope we'll be getting something similar.
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