Control Your FiOS DVR From a Phone

verizon-mobileVerizon’s mobile DVR application surfaced briefly like a groundhog in February and the company announced wider availability today. Using a mobile phone web connection, FiOS TV customers can manage their DVRs remotely by pointing their handset to http://m.verizon.com/tv.

The timing on this development is nearly perfect for me personally. Verizon hasn’t yet lit the dark fiber in my neighborhood, but wouldn’t you know that one of their workers was on my property over the weekend? I was getting the morning paper when I saw the Verizon truck so I walked over and struck up a conversation. It turns out that FiOS is enabled on the main street that our development is on, but it’s not yet ready for our houses. There’s some minimal amount of fiber splicing unfinished, but I’m told that it should be completed by the end of this week. w00t! At that point, all systems are a go for an upgrade from our relatively lowly 3 Mbps DSL. We’ve already checked out the HD programming available, so we’ll be grabbing FiOS TV…and that remote DVR web application.

Has anyone been testing or using the remote DVR management? I’d be curious how capable it is (or isn’t) before I make the move to FiOS.

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