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High Definition Video On Demand Coming To Verizon FIOS

by Heather McLaughlin

Do you have Verizon FIOS television service? Have you ever wanted to just “order up a high definition movie” without having to go to the video store?

Well, Verizon has heard your pleas and recently announced that they are adding high definition “Video On Demand” to their FIOS network.

Verizon’s initial HD VOD offering contains around 75 HD titles including a mix of free programs and recently released blockbuster movies such as “Transformers;” “The Hoax,” starring Richard Gere; “Mr. Brooks,” with Kevin Costner and Demi Moore; and the animated “Surf’s Up.” Free HD titles run the gamut from MTV music videos to shows from Wealth TV and
Golfweek Magazine. Also on Verizon HD VOD, horror fans can sample the short-form mini-series “30 Days of Night: Blood Trails” from FEARnet, a horror and thriller Web site and video-on-demand service, and produced by Ghost House Pictures. In the coming months, the company will continue to add HD titles to its VOD library, which now totals more than 10,000 titles.

FIOS customers can access these titles by pressing “VOD” or “On Demand” button on their remote control, through a menu on FiOS TV’s interactive media guide, or by tuning into channel 900. Customers need an HDTV and an HD set-top box to view the on-demand titles in high definition.