Verizon’s HD VOD Now Available in New York

NEW YORK, April 18:
Verizon has launched its high-definition VOD service to FiOS TV customers in
New York, with plans to offer 1,000 HD VOD titles per month this year.

Verizon already offers HD
VOD where FiOS TV is available in California, Delaware, Florida, Indiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and
Virginia. Seventy percent of FiOS TV's video-on-demand titles in both standard
and high definition each month are free of charge to subscribers.

Verizon has nearly doubled
the number of titles in its HD on-demand library since launching the service,
with the company recently announcing new HD VOD content from CBS, Discovery
Channel, Music Choice, HDNet and Ovation TV. Other titles include a mix of free
programs from a variety of sources, including instructional videos from
HowCast, movies from FearNet and music programming from Blastro Music, as well
as a number of recently released blockbuster movies.

"As the popularity of
high-definition programming continues to grow, we are delivering the best in HD
content," said Shawn Strickland, Verizon's VP of video solutions.
"With 10,000 titles each month, our overall video-on-demand library is the
industry's largest, and we plan to offer more than 1,000 high-definition
video-on-demand titles each month by the end of the year."

Continued Strickland:
"Increasing our HD content through video on demand is just one more way
we're making FiOS TV the first and best choice for home entertainment. We're
aggressively creating a competitive TV offering that includes the best content
delivered over Verizon's superior fiber network—a combination that is a
must-have for today's consumers. Our subscribers love video on demand because
it frees them to enjoy a wide variety of entertainment on their own
schedules."

—By Irene Lew