Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) is among the first video service providers to offer a self-install option for CableCARDs, allowing FiOS TV subs to order the security modules online for $3.99 per month, the ZatzNotFunny blog reports. The move comes amid Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tweaks to the old CableCARD rules that, in part, require MSOs to provide a self-install option. (See The New CableCARD Rules .)
Verizon has added a Pandora Media Inc. streaming music app to FiOS TV in California, Texas, and Virginia. Verizon expects to offer it in other FiOS markets later this year.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) CEO Randall Stephenson got everyone into a lather yesterday after calling DSL an "obsolete" technology at a National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners meeting in Los Angeles, noting that the company built DSL to chase cable modem competition. It's a strange statement, for sure, considering AT&T powers most of its wireline high-speed data and IPTV services using some flavor of DSL. We've asked AT&T if they care to clarify Stephenson's statement, which made the rounds soon after Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK)'s Sena Fitzmaurice tweeted about it.
AT&T expanded its U-verse Mobile app to Android devices. It lets subscribers schedule remote DVR recordings and watch TV shows.
It's been 10 years since @Home Corp. folded and filed for bankruptcy protection, but the former high-speed Internet joint venture of Cox Communications Inc. , Comcast and Tele-Communications Inc. (now part of Comcast) is still going after telcos. An @Home trustee sued Verizon Tuesday for allegedly infringing on a patent related to video delivery.
Roku is starting to make me want a Roku box more and more, but here's an interesting "gotcha" Dave Zatz discovered -- the new box can only store up to four games. But you can expand that if you use an MicroSD card. Reminds me a bit of the approach ADB is taking with its new tru2way set-back box that comes with a "DVR-lite" capability. Workable, though a bit clunky. JB
Roku is starting to make me want a Roku box more and more, but here's an interesting "gotcha" Dave Zatz discovered -- the new box can only store up to four games. But you can expand that if you use an MicroSD card. Reminds me a bit of the approach ADB is taking with its new tru2way set-back box that comes with a "DVR-lite" capability. Workable, though a bit clunky. JB