Verizon Communications has added new interactive features to FiOS TV subscribers in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Verizon subscribers have to upgrade to receive FiOS TV’s Interactive Media Guide (IMG) personalize video-on-demand (VOD), increase the power of the remote control for Showtime and ESPN programming. The upgrade can be done without any addition charge.
Verizon launched new features available to Texas and California FiOS TV subscribers and will be expanded to other markets in coming months.
Christopher Creager, Verizon president and general manager for the Northeast region, said “Because FiOS TV is such a content-rich service; we’re always finding new and better ways of making it quick and easy to find the entertainment you’re looking for and to discover new shows and features through our IMG.”
Verizon’s new interactive features include:
- Chinese Checkers Widget: Variation of traditional Chinese Checkers, with the goal of having one marble left on the board. The player selects a marble using the arrow keys on the remote control and then jumps over another marble to an empty space, removing the jumped marble.
- Full Screen Program Information: Provides customers a full-screen view of in- depth program descriptions, including cast, crew and plot synopses.
- More Like This: Subscribers can click on a “More Like This” button when previewing a VOD title and see additional, similar titles based on actors and genres.
- Quick Guide DVR Options: DVR shortcut providing subscribers with the following options: “play program from the beginning,” “select delete,” “save until I delete,” “initiate parental controls,” “select closed captions” and “help.”
- Recommendations For You: Subscribers can sign up to see personalized VOD recommendations that are based on movies they
- have viewed and ordered in the past from the FiOS TV VOD library.
- Reversi Widget: One- or two-player game displayed on the TV. Using the arrow keys on the FiOS TV remote control, players move around the board to select an empty space to complete the move. The player who fills the Reversi board with the most pieces wins.
Creager also stated, “Our latest enhancements put new tools in customers’ hands to help them better search and enjoy our 18,000 monthly-title VOD service, evaluate and purchase premium channels and more quickly access useful features like parental controls and in-depth show descriptions. FiOS TV subscribers know that we’ll keep taking their home entertainment where cable can’t go.”
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