Netris Partners with SecureMedia to Deliver Leading Edge IPTV Systems to JSC Kazakhtelecom – Netris, the leading IPTV integrator and provider of Multimedia Network applications, and SecureMedia, the technology leader in open content protection software for secure video and multimedia delivery over IP networks, today announced the first end-to-end IPTV installation.
For
the second year in a row, Verizon’s FiOS Internet service has been rated the best
in PC Magazine’s reader survey of “The Best (and Worst)” ISPs in America. Verizon
High Speed Internet service also finished third in overall score on the list of the
best DSL providers rated by the magazine’s readers.
The survey, conducted between April 7 and May 14, 2008, asked PC Magazine readers
to rate their Internet service providers, including fiber-based service, DSL, cable
and satellite. The readers were asked to evaluate their provider on 11 categories
ranging from speed and reliability to initial setup and overall rating.
“Unsurprisingly, the favored method to connect is fiber-to-the-premises, as embodied
by the Verizon FiOS service,” the magazine said in reporting its survey results. “The
fast fiber hookup received an 8.6 for an overall score – the best rating of all the
broadband options.”
Verizon’s FiOS Internet also collected the highest score among all ISPs for speed
(9.0), reliability (8.7), initial setup (8.2), ISP-provided e-mail (8.0) and likelihood
of choosing ISP (8.7). Verizon FiOS Internet was ranked No. 1 in the 2007 PC Magazine
survey of Best and Worst ISPs.
Since the 2007 PC Magazine “The Best (and Worst)” survey, Verizon has introduced its
unmatched symmetrical FiOS Internet service with the fastest upload speed (20 Mbps)
offered anywhere, coupled with an equally fast 20 Mbps downstream speed. Also, Verizon
in June expanded its super-fast 50 Mbps downstream FiOS offering to consumers in 10
more states.
Earlier this year, Verizon FiOS Internet also was named a winner in PC World Magazine’s
“The 100 Best Products of 2008,” the second year in a row the broadband service made
that list.
Only Verizon delivers ultra-high-speed broadband straight to customers’ homes over
the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic network. The network already reaches 10 million
homes and business, and it will reach more than 18 million by 2010.
Verizon offers FiOS Internet to markets in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
In July, Verizon reported that more than 2 million consumers and businesses now use
FiOS Internet as their connection to the Internet.
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Verizon FiOS Internet Rated the Best in PC Magazine Survey
Verizon FiOS
TV has
launched 22 new channels, including 15 additional HD channels. FiOS
TV customers
in Fort Wayne now have more than 440 HD choices available at any time, with a total
of 41 HD channels and more than 400 HD VOD titles offered each month.
The first in a series of channel additions coming this year, new content includes
sports favorites like the Big Ten Network and new HD channels like CNBC, Bravo and
USA. The next series of content additions will include more HD channels, including
CNN, TBS, Lifetime, three new Starz channels and two new Showtime channels, as well
as 16 new multicultural channels.
Verizon will continue expanding its FiOS TV channel lineup this year, with a major
focus on HD content. By year-end, Verizon will offer all available major HD programming.
Fort Wayne customers are the first to receive the new FiOS TV channel lineup. During
the next few months, Verizon will roll out the new content, region by region, in other
areas where FiOS TV is available.
Verizon Leads the Way With 15 New HD Channels, More to Come in July
FiOS TV customers
in the Fort Wayne area will now have a total of 41 HD channels. As Verizon previously
announced, customers will get to see some of their favorite channels in HD, including
Animal Planet, TLC, Science Channel and Smithsonian Channel. Other new HD programming
that FiOS TV customers in Fort Wayne now receive includes CNBC, Bravo, USA, Cinemax,
HBO, History Channel, Weather Channel and SCI FI.
Those customers who subscribe to FiOS TV’s Movie Package – which already includes
more than 40 channels from Showtime, Starz, The Movie Channel, Encore, Sundance Channel
and IFC, as well as access to hundreds of free movies on VOD – will soon have access
to five new HD channels from Starz and Showtime: Starz Edge, Starz Comedy, Starz Kids
and Family, Showtime and Showtime 2.
Big Ten Network and More Sports Content
For sports fans, Verizon is launching three new HD sports channels. Verizon has always
placed a high priority on providing all major sports programming and offering as much
as possible in HD.
The company has now added top college basketball and football action with the Big
Ten Network, which will be available in both standard- and high-definition. In addition,
Verizon has launched two other new HD sports channels – Versus/Golf Channel, which
features live events and original programming from Versus as well as PGA Tour and
additional golf coverage; and the Outdoor Channel 2, which provides programming that
promotes traditional outdoor activities like fishing, hunting and shooting sports.
As previously announced, Verizon will also soon offer Setanta Sports, a premium channel
dedicated to bringing European and International soccer and rugby to U.S.-based fans.
When the channel launches in July, no other cable provider will offer Setanta.
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Verizon Adds 22 New Channels to FiOS TV Lineup in Indiana
Verizon
FiOS TV
customers
now have a new tool to augment their TV viewing experience, with the launch of the
new FiOS
TV Central Web site. The site allows customers to use any desktop or laptop computer
to review their local TV schedules and information about VOD and pay-per-view offerings.
Soon, customers will also be able to use the site to program their DVR, among other
features.
The site offers a number of options for reviewing FiOS
TV content,
including:
Verizon plans to add features to the site later this year that will allow customers
to control their DVRs and set up and modify recordings remotely. Customers also will
be able to order VOD programming and other content and manage parental controls, among
other capabilities.
The FiOS TV Central site can be accessed at www.verizon.com/fiostvcentral.
Current customers can use their Verizon Central usernames and passwords to log in.
Consumers who have not yet subscribed to FiOS
TV can
access the site’s homepage to gather information about all that the service has to
offer.
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Verizon FiOS TV Central Web Site Launched for Programming Information
Bluehighways TV And Atlantic Broadband’s Cumberland Maryland Cable System Team For Delfest 2008 Marketing Campaign – May 5, 2008
BlueHighways TV and Atlantic Broadband today announced that they will promote BlueHighways TV’s linear and Video on Demand (VOD) service launch on the Cumberland, MD cable system with a joint marketing campaign at the first annual DelFest 2008.
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IPTV VoD Launch
