Verizon FiOS DVR tries to be an AppleTV

Seth Weintraub
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October 30, 2009
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Verizon FiOS Mac customers might be interested in this one: Verizon is now offering a conduit for your iPhoto and iTunes to work through your FiOS DVR.  You need to have reasonably recent versions of Mac software and a FiOS DVR.  It is sort of like a (more) crippled AppleTV.   Want more information?  The nice young lady below will explain it to you as if you were a two year old:

Verizon doesn't explain whether or not iTunes videos will work, or maybe it did and we couldn't listen to the whole thing.

[Via Engadget]

 

Comments (20)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 12:17pm

her voice and "acting" make me want to punch her in the face

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 12:19pm

What is Quicklime?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 12:35pm

I was at her party! It was shit and her parents are drunks!!!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 12:45pm

Couldn't she just plug her Mac into her TV?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 12:57pm

It works really well.

It does not recognize any videos in my iPhoto library and only songs are available via the iTunes connection.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 2:27pm

i hate her

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 3:05pm

What a bitch! :-D

Jim (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 3:14pm

When sharing an iPhoto album on the TV with the Verizon Media Manager, the photos are quite poor quality. The colors and resolution appear to be way below the 1280x720 resolution of my TV. Nothing like connecting my MacBook directly with an HDMI cable which gives a gorgeous presentation.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 3:29pm

The usual mature Apple suspects

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 5:23pm

No joke--I tried to play the DMB album, "Crash" and it crashed my set top box.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 8:56pm

I would like to punch her in the ovaries.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 10:36pm

How 'bout a little less cheeze with your chips....

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 10:37pm

I'm sorry but this smells of microsoft.....like a windows 7 party....pee-eww

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 3:16am

Such amazing features: you can even "Select All" or "Select None". They're an innovative bunch.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 3:46am

At what point does she strip? Did I miss that point?! Damn!

Ruben (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 4:00am

She must have hurt her laughing muscles making this video :P

PZ (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 6:09am

Hmm, sounds worthless. At least its free, but its ridiculous to be limited to slideshows and music. I don't even have the DVR, just the regular box because its mostly worthless. This isn't enough to make me upgrade either.

I like TV to kill time, when I just feel like sitting down and putting on something distracting, in HD. Once you get into recording TV shows when you're not there to watch them, THEN you are watching too much TV.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 6:12am

hmmm it doesn't sound very easy^^ Just go to the website www.verizon.com/..???
Its now easy if you have to remember all the stuff behind the slash.

She didn't said. Is this just Software or do you need some Hardware to?

Cucu (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 2:48pm

Dispice more like it.

You guys were right, you just want to punch her in the face

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 31, 2009 - 11:52pm

Ignoring software bugs dealing with resolution, this thing is a DVR---something I've been waiting for AppleTV to do since it came out. At this point, the DVR market is through because Apple didn't ever build one. Now, we're stuck with vendor lock-in with boxes from the cable company to be able to get full functionality.

What really makes me mad is knowing that if Apple had gone in there with a DVR two years ago, we'd still have something resembling a free market for DVRs. Now, it's too late, and short of the FCC mandating that they get rid of the "copy protected" CableCard flag, we'll likely never have anything approaching a viable third-party DVR market again.

Now, watch as they twist the screw a little tighter, make content we pay to watch less and less accessible until we just say "Screw this, I'll watch dancing bears dressed up as penguins on YouTube instead."