Verizon Fios Bringing Web Video to the TV
Reports from Broadcast Newsroom and Fierce IPTV report that Verizon Fios is about to bring social networking and web video to the TV.
Verizon launched a test of on-screen (TV) widgets for Facebook and Twitter. We’ll see if and how people use it to communicate about shows and if it impacts viewing. Perhaps, instead of channel surfing, you’ll social surf to see if others can suggest something good to watch.
The Verizon Web-video-to-TV service will serve content from Dailymotion, Veoh Networks and Blip.TV.
To view Web video on TV, FiOS TV customers will install Verizon’s Media Manager on their PCs which will, in turn, stream the vide to the FiOS set-top box. This seems similar to the Playon (www.themediamall.com) which is software that streams web video through the PC to a video game console acting as a set-top box.
(Disclosure: The Fortex Group works with Dailymotion)
