“Complementing its existing slate of MoCA-powered multi-room DVRs and “TV Widgets” applications (real-time local weather and traffic updates), Verizon has a 2007 video roadmap that will sprinkle in a “FiOS TV portal,” enhanced television applications, local VOD content, on-demand advertising, and personalized play list capabilities.
On the latter, the telco will employ a new set-top-based search, according to Robert Ingalls, Verizon’s chief marketing officer, who was here Wednesday morning to keynote the fifth annual FTTH Conference & Expo.
On the VOD front, Verizon also expects to offer extras that are typically found on retail DVDs. SeaChange International, Verizon’s primary VOD partner, has a “DVD on Demand” application, which is also available to the vendor’s cable MSO customers”””.
