Forgot to set your DVR before heading out of town for the weekend? If you’re a FiOS TV DVR customer with a smartphone, you’re in luck. The company announced Monday that it is expanding the number of customers who can remotely set their DVRs via cell phone.
Any FiOS TV DVR customers can now program their DVRs via an Internet-enabled phone. In April, Verizon announced that FiOS TV DVR customers could program their devices via the Web, but only subscribers of Home Media DVR, which lets users watch shows they’ve taped on up to six TVs throughout the house, could program via the Internet and smartphones.
“Now, if you’re a FiOS TV DVR customer, you can use the Web site or a cell phone to review, change or add recording requests, delete recorded programs, browse and search TV and video-on-demand listings, set parental controls and more,” Verizon spokesman Eric Rabe wrote in a blog post.
Verizon also expanded access to its Media Manager download, which lets customers view photos, play music, and stream videos from the PC to FiOS TV DVRs.
“Until now, Media Manager has only been available to certain subscribers, but now we’re opening up the service to any TV and Internet customer who also has a DVR. There’s no extra charge,” Rabe wrote.
Those certain subscribers include Home Media DVR customers that also had FiOS internet. Now it’s open to all FiOS TV DVR customers who also have FiOS Internet.
To access Media Manager, sign into your Verizon.net account and download the program. Then, select the “Media Manager” option on the FiOS TV Interactive Media Guide.
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