Any good FIOS forums?

[harley3k]

Until I buy my Series3 unit, are there any good FIOS forums out there that people know of?

I've googled around, but haven't found a lot that are very active.

thanks,
-h

[ddeloach]

Try this:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/index.php?

Check under Cable Television for listing of Verizon FIOS.

[beady]

http://www.dslreports.com/ also has TV and broadband forums for FIOS.

[A J Ricaud]

This one is very active:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/vzfiber

[JimSpence]

A Google search found this.
http://www.fioshelpforum.com/

[harley3k]

Thanks everyone.
The DSLReports forum seems to be the best...don't know why I didn't think to look there first.

I already found screenshots of the new FIOS-DVR software coming out.
Looks pretty sweet.

-h

[Atomic409]

Originally Posted by harley3k

Thanks everyone.
The DSLReports forum seems to be the best...don't know why I didn't think to look there first.

I already found screenshots of the new FIOS-DVR software coming out.
Looks pretty sweet.

-h

Ha Ha Ha. It is to laugh!

I am a current FiOS TV subscriber for a year and a half now and while the tv picture quality is great there is nothing else I can recommend about them. Their customer service is horrible, and is always closed. The reps always try their best to help but it Verizon policy must be to never change anything to accomodate their customers. Period.

I saw the same screenshots of the "new FIOS DVR software coming out real soon" when I got FiOS TV over a year ago. Nothing has been changed or added since day one.

The DVR software especially hasn't been changed a bit. Don't believe ANY of the lies of the FiOS hypers out there. FiOS DVR is trash.

A Short List of What Verizon FiOS DVR Cannot Do:
1. Channels you don't even get always appear in the search screen even though you have "unchecked" them so they don't appear in the guide or channel up/down

2. Category search is a joke. It has Movies, Hdtv, News, Kids, Talk Shows, and a couple of other categories that are worthless --- and THAT'S IT.

3. You can search under "other info" for actor, subject, genre or whatever but it comes up with things that have nothing to do with what you searched for half the time. It's maddening to say the least -- but see item # 2 and 7 and you'll see that this "feature" is next to useless.

4. The Verizon remote control for both the HiDef DVR and the standard box both have this annoying habit of changing the channel on your tv when you wanted to change the channel on the cable box. On my tv that makes it go to all snow till I fiddle with the tv remote to get the input setting back to S-Video. Annoying!

5. The HiDef DVR has Serial, USB, *and* Firewire ports. Sounds great. But they're all disabled. And you can call them a million times but they will never be enabled because they don't change the software for the boxes... EVER

6. They have a "multi-room dvr" but it cannot connect to or share its saved shows with anything but a standard box -- not even another multi-room and certainly not a HiDef DVR. So you can record a maximum of two channels for your entire family. Wow.

7. This is a minor point but their guide data for anything but the "big" networks is often either blank (no data on that show at all) or it's just plain wrong.

So I dumped the Verizon DVR and got 3 TIVOs.

[harley3k]

Originally Posted by Atomic409

Ha Ha Ha. It is to laugh!

I am a current FiOS TV subscriber for a year and a half now and while the tv picture quality is great there is nothing else I can recommend about them. Their customer service is horrible, and is always closed. The reps always try their best to help but it Verizon policy must be to never change anything to accomodate their customers. Period.

The first FIOSTV service started in Keller Texas September 2005, so if you've been a customer for that long you must live there?

Everytime I've called their service number I've gotten a person immediately on the phone - I mean a person answered the phone. Literally just picked up. I'm in Texas, so maybe it's different where you are.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

I saw the same screenshots of the "new FIOS DVR software coming out real soon" when I got FiOS TV over a year ago. Nothing has been changed or added since day one.
The DVR software especially hasn't been changed a bit. Don't believe ANY of the lies of the FiOS hypers out there. FiOS DVR is trash.

The 2.0 software was just unveiled this month. It is being tested by customers in New Jersey today.
Here are links to the new screens and a video of it in action. Maybe you saw something different:

http://newsfeed.verizon.com/detail?s...53895&mime=JPG
http://newsfeed.verizon.com/detail?s...53931&mime=JPG
http://newsfeed.verizon.com/detail?s...53967&mime=JPG
http://newsfeed.verizon.com/Videos (The video is named: Verizon Fios TV Demo)

Originally Posted by Atomic409

A Short List of What Verizon FiOS DVR Cannot Do:
1. Channels you don't even get always appear in the search screen even though you have "unchecked" them so they don't appear in the guide or channel up/down

I haven't noticed this one. I dont' do a lot of searching though.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

2. Category search is a joke. It has Movies, Hdtv, News, Kids, Talk Shows, and a couple of other categories that are worthless --- and THAT'S IT.

What other categories would you want? Their categories seem pretty straight forward to me.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

3. You can search under "other info" for actor, subject, genre or whatever but it comes up with things that have nothing to do with what you searched for half the time. It's maddening to say the least -- but see item # 2 and 7 and you'll see that this "feature" is next to useless.

It seems unlikely to me that if you search on specific info like actor, or subject, that it would display results that didn't have at least that actors name or the subject's name. I remember using a wish list on my Tivo for the word "Tile" once because I wanted to learn how to lay tile. I got all sorts of programs that weren't related to tiling. I can't say that it was exactly "maddening" though.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

4. The Verizon remote control for both the HiDef DVR and the standard box both have this annoying habit of changing the channel on your tv when you wanted to change the channel on the cable box. On my tv that makes it go to all snow till I fiddle with the tv remote to get the input setting back to S-Video. Annoying!

I haven't experienced this with any of my 3 DVR remotes. All being used on different TVs. Perhaps yours is programmed incorrectly?

Originally Posted by Atomic409

5. The HiDef DVR has Serial, USB, *and* Firewire ports. Sounds great. But they're all disabled. And you can call them a million times but they will never be enabled because they don't change the software for the boxes... EVER

This is no different than any other DVR out there. Most have un-activated ports. Oh and the Firewire ports are definately active. That is required by law. And I've even ripped video onto my laptop using the port.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

6. They have a "multi-room dvr" but it cannot connect to or share its saved shows with anything but a standard box -- not even another multi-room and certainly not a HiDef DVR. So you can record a maximum of two channels for your entire family. Wow.

Except for stand alone Tivos or Hacked DirecTivos, they are one of the only provider that has mutli-room DVR at all! No other DVR has more than 2 tuners. Its true you can't watch HD in the 'other rooms', but you CAN watch the recorded HD program just downscaled to SD. They are pretty cutting edge with this unit even though it's not an ideal system yet. And few households have more than one HDTV anyway, so this probably fits a lot of peoples needs. I personally have 3 HDTVs and I chose to go with 3 HD-DVRs. I had the advantage of leasing them instead of buying them, or paying an 'upcharge' to 'lease' them like DirecTV does.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

7. This is a minor point but their guide data for anything but the "big" networks is often either blank (no data on that show at all) or it's just plain wrong.

I've never seen this problem. Maybe you are using different hardware than me? I only have the HD-DVRs in my house.

Originally Posted by Atomic409

So I dumped the Verizon DVR and got 3 TIVOs.

Did you get 3 Series3 Tivos? You know that you still dont' have multi-room viewing with those right? You should head over to the Series3 forum and post a rant about that immediately

It sounds like you are seriuosly disatisfied with their service. Perhaps you should consider switching to someone else?

-h