Verizon Communications has appear its affairs to accompany its FiOS TV account to book accessories like Apple’s iPad.
The aggregation says it expects to barrage the app abutting year, acceptance FiOS TV subscribers to tune into alive TV anon from the device.
Verizon approved the technology to reporters at an accident today and said it is in talks with agreeable providers to extend its programming agreements to awning book computers.
Earlier this ages there were rumors that Verizon was alive with Motorola on a book accessory accurately for FiOS TV subscribers. Given the analogously baby FiOS TV subscriber abject (3.2 million, compared to Comcast’s 23.5 million), acomputer appliance action makes a lot added sense.
It isn’t bright if thecomputer appliance will interface with a set-top box, a la apps from Sling Media and eyeTV, or if it will beck agreeable from a appropriate web portal.
Verizon already has an arrangement of online on-demand offerings for its FiOS TV subscribers, including HBO Go and abutment for some of Time Warner’s cable networks like TNT and TBS.
In accession to alive TV streaming, Verizon additionally showcased an adapted adaptation of its Media Manager appliance that will let users upload and beck video from the billow to their PCs, TVs or adaptable devices.
Verizon isn’t the alone cable provider eying the iPad as the abutting commitment device. Beforehand this month, Cablevision appear that it has affairs to accompany advertisement and VOD alive to the iPad and added devices. Comcast, which has its own Xfinity TV Everywhere web-based initiative, additionally showed off a ancestor of an iPad alien ascendancy appliance beforehand this spring.
Would you like to watch alive TV on your iPad? Would the adeptness to do so accomplish you added acceptable to acquirement one?
